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foote: south mahratta country. 



are largely developed in the valleys of the Bhima and its eastern tribu- 

 tary, the Kogni, and which clearly answer to the Talikot limestones of 

 the western part of the Bhima basin. A well-marked and extensive 

 overlap of these limestones on to the gneissic rocks along the southern 

 boundary of the basin between Kembhavi and Gogi shows_, however_, that 

 a break in time must have taken place between the deposition of the 

 calcareous shales and the Talikot limestones, or that there must have been 

 a change in the depth of the sea (or lake) in which the Bhima rocks were 

 formed, of so great and rapid a character as to indicate the necessity of 

 regarding the two sets of rocks as quite distinct members of the Bhima 

 series. 



The same succession of beds as that above given is found to be 



constant to the southward as far as Rampur on the left bank of the Bhima, 



and eastward as far as Bimanhalli (BeemunhuUy) , a distance of eleven 



miles from Lalapur hill. The beds lie undisturbed all along this 



curved boundaiy line as far as Halhalli (Halhully), five and a half miles to 



the north-east-by-east of Lalapur hill, where they begin to dip northward 



at high angles. At Allur (Ulloor), three miles 

 Allur section. 



further east, the beds are crushed up vertically 

 against the gneiss as shown in the following section : — 



KT.E. S.W. 



Section through Allur hill :— T. Deccan trap, c Limestone. 6. Calcareons shales, 

 il. Purple shales, a. Basement grit. A. Gneiss, &o. 



Mr. King describes this section as' follows : — " At the point of 

 section the bottom beds of grit and sandstone, very thin, are lying up 

 against a nondescript quartzo-felspathic rock, much ^stringed'' with 



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