116 FOOTE : SOUTH MAHRATTA COUNTRY. 



Where thie sections are so eminently unsatisfactory, it would be 

 useless to describe any in detail, but the chief varieties of the several 

 rocks met with, and the localities where they are most largely, or best, 

 exposed, may be enumerated with advantage. 



From no point can the limestones be better studied than from the 

 ^ Limestones near Ka- ^^wn of Kaladgi itself, which stands upon them, 

 ^^^S^' very nearly in the centre of the basin. The beds 



of limestone are much contorted, and the dips and strikes, therefore, very 

 variable within small limits. The average dip is about north-east, from 

 35° to 40°. The commonest color is grey in various shades, banded 

 with very wavy bands of grey chert which generally weather of a 

 drab or yellowish tint externally. A very handsome variety occurring 

 north of the cantonment is greyish-black banded with green. It is 

 a very impure, highly argillaceous variety. It is overlaid by grey and 

 underlaid by dirty pink, and this by banded grey limestone. A very 

 beautiful pink and pale-green banded, or clouded, variety was discovered 

 by Dr. Thorp, the Zillah Surgeon, at the northern end of the bazaar, 

 and several large masses raised. The greatest exposures of the rock 

 ace east, south-east, south, and north-west of the place. 



Capital exposures of the limestone occur about two miles to the 



south-south-east of the town in the Sillikeri (Shoo- 

 AtSillikeri. . 



lehgeeree) nullah, where purple, pmk, and white 



banded, dark-grey and almost black beds crop out with a dip of 



30° to 40° north-east-by-east, the dark upper beds being much more 



argillaceous in character. Another exposure and one of the largest 



in the basin occurs between the two villages of Sillikeri. Here the 



grey chert-banded variety of the limestone is very largely exposed on 



either side of an important anticlinal, which extends for some 



distance east and west, crossing the Khaleskop nullah to the 



westward, where it is traceable some hundreds of yards till 



obscured by cotton soil. Similarly, the extension eastward of the 



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