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only gritty sandstones with fine sandstones resting on them are com- 

 monly seen at Muddebihal and to the north-westward of it, but there is 

 nowhere a total absence of the pebbly conglomerate, which may be traced 

 in each of the several patches of Bhima rocks up to Alkopur. 



This feature is also observable in the Balvvantarkatti valley north 

 of Muddebihal. The beds show many signs of slight disturbance prior 

 to the outpouring of the Deccan trap-flows, being frequently a little 

 broken and upturned, whilst they roll about in all directions, generally 

 at low angles. 



The sandstones between Kaurimatti and Muddebihal are of drab 

 and pale- brown color; those forming the outlier which caps the Sirur 

 (Suroor) hill are white, drab, and purplish, the white beds being rather 

 unusually massive and compact, but showing many small, shallow, con- 

 choidal cavities, as if compressed clay-galls had been weathered out. The 

 beds are here quite horizontal. At Muddebihal and thence north-westward 

 along the valley of the Bagewari nullah the prevalent color of the sand- 

 stones is a pale reddish-brown weathering to a cinnamon-brown. One 

 White saccharoid sand- noteworthy exception to this is a remarkably white 

 stoue near Muddebihal. gandstonc, very saccharoid in appearance, which 

 occurs at the extreme south-west corner of the Muddebihal plateau. 

 As already mentioned, the sandstone immediately underlying the lime- 

 stone is absent in that part of the Bhima formation which lies east of the 

 Don river, or else it is so thin as to deserve no special notice ; otherwise 

 much the same characters are exhibited by the shaley sandstones forming 

 the middle sub-division of the Bhima rocks east of the Don river. 



The excellent section at the east end of the Tirth plateau has 

 Lower or purple shale already been described (page 140), but there are 

 ®^'^^^' many other spots where the shales and shaley 



sandstone beds are well displayed, e. g., between Muskanhal and 

 Bilibhavi south-east of Talikot and around Malanur on the road from 

 Talikot to Sorapur, where the purple color predominates near the base of 

 the series. In the small outlying hill a mile and a half to the south 

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