110 FOOTE : SOUTH MAHRATTA COUNTRY. 



sandstones both at Yenklapur and to the north of Malgi are mostly 

 greyish^ drab or pale-grey in color."^ They are well seen further north- 

 west in the Kallubenkehri nullah and to the west at Fakir Budihal 

 and Hoskuttee. They also cover a large area to the south of the low 

 and irregular anticlinal which the watershed between the valley of the 

 Malprabha on the south and that of the Gatprabha and of the Kerur- 

 Guledgudd nullah on the north. 



They form numerous low hills and undulating stretches in the tri- 

 angular area lying between the villages of Redd 

 shri?'bedr^^^^''°" °^ Timapur (Reddee Temehpoor), Halgiri andSoman- 

 kop. The rapid rate of weathering of some of the 

 shaley beds near Reddi Timapur and in the sides of the Hehwulkode 

 valley to the north has given rise to much falling in of the overlying 

 quartzitesj which form a plateau locally. The same has been the ease 

 with the drab shaley beds and overlying quartzite sandstones north and 

 north-west of Woblapur (Woglapoor). The drab shaley beds are to 

 be seen underlying the local upper quartzite at Mudianur (Moodeeanoor) , 

 south-east of Woblapur^ and at Khanapur^ five miles north-west-by-west 

 of the former place. The shaley series may be traced further westward, 

 in the valley of the Narsapur nullah, beyond which they disappear under 

 the trap and the Sidanhal limestone patch, but re-appear three miles 

 further to the westward, near Korkop, where many small sections of 

 Shaley teds in Kodli- them are seen in various nullahs and wells. They 

 wa Du a va ey. ^^^ ^j^^^ again lost under the trap, but re-appear 



in the Kodliwad (Kodlewar) valley, six miles further to the north-west- 

 ward. Here, and in the several valleys opening into it, the shaley 



* A singular concretionary mass of earthy red haematite which resembled most strik- 

 ingly the fossilized trmik of a tree was observed in a field a little to the north of Malgi 

 lying half exposed in the drab shaley sandstone. This mass was rudely cylindrical in shape, 

 of a ricb purple color, from 6 to 8 feet long, and about as thick as a man's leg. Internally 

 it was tesselated (cubically concentric) in structure, and showed no trace of being organic in 

 origin. 



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