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Slrur and Guledgudd passes on to the gneiss area. The Ramdhal breccia 

 beds join those which lap round the great haematite hill rising on 

 the south boundary of the basin about half way between Ramdhal and 

 Amingarh. The great number of bright red or banded fragments of 

 jasper which occur in the beds render them equal in beauty of color to 

 those described in the Adumurunhal section (page 79). 



7. Sections inside the Kalddgi basin. 



This last section concludes the series in the circuit round the boundary 

 of the basin^ but there are several sections to be noticed lying well 

 within the area of the basin. In some of these the horizon occupied re- 

 lative to the series as a whole is very doubtful^ partly from imperfection 

 of the section displayed, partly because the space intervening between 

 that and other sections is obscured by overlying formations. 



The extension westward of the Badami quartzite-sandstone beds 

 has already been mentioned. By their weathering they give rise to 

 a vast amount of extremely sandy soil forming a considerable talus 

 at the base of the difEerent groups of cliffs and isolated rocks. The 

 quartzite-sandstone beds lying in the triangle formed by the villages 

 Nilgundi (Nelgoondee) , Bilgiri (Belgerree), and Kerur (Kehroor) form 

 an undulating plateau, and are so deeply cut into by numerous nullahs as 

 to render the country very rugged. As they extend westward the beds 

 change in character and become much more sandy, 

 often indeed passing into friable shaley sand- 

 stones, which in some places are overlaid by a thin bed of reddish 

 quartzite. This arrangement is very well displayed in a flat-topped hill 

 crowned by a little hamlet called Yenklapur, two or three miles south- 

 east of Kerur, and again in a low hill north-north-east of Malgi. In the 



latter case the upper quartzite is capped by grey 

 Malgi hill. i i • • ^ -,• p 



limestone, and this again by an outlier of Deccan 



trap. The limestone is unquestionably an outlier of the great limestone 



series, which is largely developed a few miles to the north. The shaley 



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