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of Malanur a thin set of transition beds between the base of the lime- 

 stone and the shaley sandstones is well seen near the top o£ the hill, 

 while further down the alternation of drab and green laminse is very 

 well marked. 



Still further east, along the Talikot-Sorapur road the purple shaley 

 beds are largely seen between the villages of Kaludevunuhal and 

 Hebbal Buzruk, where the small river cuts deeply into them, forming 

 cliffs 30 feet in height and upwards. 



The shaley sandstones may also be well seen nearly everywhere 

 along the scarp which sweeps round the south and west sides of the 

 Agani (Uguni) valley, along which they present no characters sufficiently 

 different from those before given to merit separate mention. 



In the small Kembhavi outlier they re-appear with the highlv 

 characteristic purple color, but with the basement sandstones they die 

 out here and are not seen again till east of the Bhima. 



In the eastern part of the Bhima basin, the basement series of 

 Eastern parts of the conglomerates and grits was found by Mr. King 

 ima asm. ^^ have thinned out very remarkably, and to be 



represented only by a thin-bedded quartzite or semi-vitreous pebbly 

 sandstone from 6 inches to 2 feet thick only. It may be seen 

 between Nalwar station (Great Indian Peninsula Railway) and 

 Purdapalli ( Poor dap ully), occurring as a mere skin filling up hollows 

 in the gneissic rocks. Further north, where forming a continuous bed 

 underlying the purple limestones and shales on which the village of 

 Nalwar stands, this basement bed is only from 4 to 6 inches thick. This 

 sandstone shows strongly at the base of the conspicuous conical hill called 

 Kudapur Qubur, and also up the western slope of the Sunkanur (Soonka- 

 noor) plateau. 



The sandstone is mainly made up of little quartz pebbles about the 

 size of boiled rice grains, and all of more or 



Sunkauur plateau. 



less transparent quartz. The cementing material 

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