126 POOTE : SOUTH MAHRATTA COUNTRY. 



able show of grey and purplish limestones. North-west of Naganur 

 village are some very handsome, purplish dove-colored and greenish- 

 banded beds. Some have rippled surfaces, the prominences on which are 

 peculiarly weathered, and show an internal silicious frame-work, giving 

 rise to markings like those on the scales of large ganoid fish, such as 

 Koloptycliius. 



On the north side of the synclinal, these grey and bluish-banded 



limestones are very largely exposed both east and 

 Lokapur sections. 



west of Lokapur, where they make the largest 



show in the whole limestone basin. These two sets of beds are unques- 

 tionably the western extensions of those seen at Yendikeri and Kha- 

 leskop and Sillikeri, and of which a large display occurs intermediately 



in the valley of the Kajadoni nullah to the south 

 Kajadoni sections. 



of the village of that name. Faint traces of 



copper in the shape of thin films of the carbonate of that mineral 



(Malachite) were observed in some grey limestone quarried in the 



bed of the nullah about three miles south of the village. 



Great quantities of grey limestone, much of it highly cherty, are 



to be seen in the valleys of the different streams 

 Chipurmatti breccia. 



which unite to form the Kajadoni nullah, especially 



to the west and north of Chipurmatti. About a mile to the north- 

 west of Chipurmatti there are indications of brecciated limestone, pale 

 red or pink fragments included in a dull red matrix, also of a variety 

 with purplish-brown matrix, including fragments of grey slate and lime- 

 stone ; neither variety was seen in situ, but numerous blocks had been 

 used as fencing-walls on both sides of the path leading northward to 

 Kaladgi. Nearly along the west side of the Yendikeri nullah are 

 numerous beds of limestone dipping south (? inverted) at high angles ; 

 amongst these some grey beds with occasional thin veins of bright 

 cherry-red ealcspar. In the bed of the nullah is a stratum of pinkish 

 limestone with delicate green stripes, which have been thrown into most 

 elaborate Vandykes by contortion of the beds and give the stone a very 

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