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red granite^ and also traversed by greenstone. There are no indications 

 of alteration along the junction, except what might have been brouo-ht 

 about by crushing, which most certainly took place, for the beds were 

 never deposited as they now lie. The line of junction or faultino* rans 

 about north-west to south-east, with a dip to the north-east of from 



40° to eo".'' 



The nondescript quartzo-felspathic rock is very different from the 



usual gneiss of the country ; it shows no regular 

 Abnormal gneiss. i i • 



structure, but has its constituents strangely mixed 



up together. It may be igneous, and it certainly appears to be such, 

 but its present form and constitution may also be the result of violent 

 crushing and of the intrusion of granite and trap. To the east, west, 

 and south the country is so covered up by superficial deposits that it is 

 difiicult to say how much further the dislocation or igneous action ex- 

 tended. There does not appear to be any connexion between the trap 

 traversing the nondescript rock and that capping the hill north of 

 AUur. Traces of an extension of the line of dislocation appear in 

 the gneissic rocks of the Kogni valley close to the Great Indian 

 Peninsula Railway bridge. Mr. King points out further that the 

 disturbance in question took place prior to the deposition of the Deeean 

 trap. 



The total thickness of Bhima rocks exposed in the Allur section 

 measures about 120 feet, of which 84 are shales. 



B — The Upper Bhima Series. 



The lowest and by far the most important sub-division of the 



Upper Bhima series includes the Talikot limestones 

 At Talikot. 



(c) which are largely exposed at and around the 

 town of Talikot in the western part of the Bhima area, and still more 

 extensively in the eastern part of the area along the Bhima and its 

 tributary the Kogni. The limestone is mostly of a kind which has been 



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