96 poote: south mahratta country. 



here forms a scarp, the base of which is obscured by a thick talus which 

 abuts upon a broad aUuvial flat accumulated in the valley of the Mar- 

 kandeya river above the gorge by which that river now flows through 

 the congeries of hills and small quartzite plateaux lyiug between Kakti 

 and the Ankalgi valley. This scarp is merely the north-westerly conti- 

 nuation of a scarp forming the boundary of the quartzite plateau lying 

 north of the Belgaum valley, and along the entire base of which the under- 

 lying metamorphic rocks are to be seen. From the relative position of the 

 trap-flows forming the base of the great flat-topped hill known as the One 

 Tree hill, and lying north-east of Belgaum, it is clear that unless there has 

 been some subsequent dislocation of the two rock-series (of which there 

 Kaktl scarp of pre-trap. is not the slightest evidence), the Kakti scarp 

 pean age, ^^g formed prior certainly to the outpouring of 



those particular trap-flows and not improbably prior to the very earliest. 

 It is not unlikely that this scarp extends far to the north-west under 

 the overlying trap. The form of the ground at Rajguli (on the Tambra- 

 parni (Tamburphm-nee) , a large feeder of the Ghatprabha rising close to 

 Ramghat), at Naiseree, at the scarp north of Ajra, at Yengol in the 

 valley of the Vedganga, and at Waki in that of the Dudhganga, sug- 

 gests the idea that the scarps there seen are really the great boundary 

 scarp of the westward extension of the Kaladgi basin, although the base 

 of the scarp is not sufficiently uncovered by denudation for the underly- 

 ing metamorphics to be seen. 



Both above Kakti and along the south scarp above Kalkhambeh 

 (Kulkhumbeh), a succession of conglomerate and grit beds, with some 

 compact quartzites intercalated between them, are seen to dip north or 

 north-east at low angles. Farther in, i. e., north, other gritty and 

 pebbiy beds are met with overlying the beds which form the scarp. 

 These latter extend all across the slightly inclined plateau to the gorge 

 of the Markandeya near Nandi, north of which come in other quartzites, 

 which extend up to the valley of the Ghatprabha near Sutgatti (Soot- 

 gutti) andWantmari (Wutmooree). 



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