104 FOOTE : SOUTH MAHRATTA COUNTRY. 



The central part of this ridge near Khanapur and Banknuri (Bunk- 

 nuree) is much more uptilted than either end of it. At Biddugal above- 

 mentioned the beds dip 35° north-west; at Khanapur from 50° to 60° 

 north-east-by-north; at Banknuri from 60° to 75°. The dip decreases 

 to 35° to 45° at Lakmapur^ and to 30° at Chinrasavi^ where the quartz- 

 ite beds cross the Malprabha. Further east the dip decreases rapidly to 

 8° north on the plateau above Belur^ and then the strata become hori- 

 zontal^ or roll about but very slightly, where they form the plateau 

 Belur and Gajendra- capping the Kne of hiUs stretching away to Gajen- 

 garb plateaux. dragarh. The beds here are generally grits, or 



very compact sandstone, assuming the character of quartzites, however, 

 where they are even slightly upturned. Conglomerates, though not 

 altogether absent, are not very common in this quarter. The same 

 characters hold good in the outliers north of the 



Gudur. 



Gajendragarh hills around Gudur. 



The predominant colors are pale in tint, whether they are drab, grey, 

 Hanamsagar and Gudur purplish, reddish, pink, or brown. But there are 

 plateaux. -^^^^ ^^^ there exceptionally dark beds of sand- 



stone, e. g., a bed of dark-brown sandstone at Wukund (Wookoond). 

 One of the best sections in the Gudur hills is that immediately east of 

 the village on the pathway up to the old fort which is perched on the 

 north-west angle of the principal plateau.^ The beds here exposed in a 

 very steep scarp are pale drab, brown and reddish -brown thick-bedded 

 sandstones with occasional layers of pebbles, and pebbles scattered sparsely 

 throughout the mass of the rock. Some of the more gritty beds show 

 much false bedding. The sandstones occasionally show some fine scarps, 

 which, like the quartzite scarps in other quarters, show much bright-red 

 ferruginous staining. Such scarps are to be seen at Parsapur and Hanam- 



* The nullali flowing past Gudur from Murudi (Mooroodi) is not correctly shown in 

 the Atlas Sheet (No. 41), for it really runs well south-westward of the villages instead of 

 two-thirds of a mile eastward as shown in the map. 



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