]58 foote: south mahratta country. 



strings. The beds at the boundary are, as a rule, vertical or nearly so, 

 the dip being sometimes north, sometimes south (? by inversion). 



South of Hukanahal (Hookunahal) six miles west-by-north of Gogi, 

 are two low ridges in a line (faintly shown in the atlas sheet) 

 consisting of these lower limestone beds with a vertical or very high 

 dip. On the south side of the ridges is a thin band of the blue lime- 

 stones ; the ridge itself consists of the silicious beds, and a thicker band 

 of blue limestones lies on the north side. Northward the upper red 

 shales come in, but their relation to the limestone is not visible. 



In this ridge the three bands of limestone are at least 600 feet 

 in thickness. This vertical position of the lower beds continues on to 

 Goo-i, the dip of the higher beds decreasing from the boundary north- 

 ward. 



The Durga (or Mausoleum) west of Gogi stands on a thin group 

 of compact and close-grained quartzites which 

 appear between the blue limestones that lie at 

 lower angles immediately below the Durga hill, and a considerable band 

 of very fine buff shales (like the Auk (Owk) shales'^ of the Karnul series) 

 which shows a little further to the north. This band of quartzites occurs 

 in thick and thin beds dipping about 10° northward, and appears to be 

 conformable to the limestones. At the south-west corner of Gogi town 

 the quartzites are vertical, and to the east of the town they thicken 

 out greatly, and upon a low ridge between the villages of Hulakal 

 (Hoolukul) and Hottapatti, but finally disappear under the superficial 

 deposits of the Madarki (Mudurki) nullah. From this quartzite and 

 conglomerate ridge the whole overlying series may be traced up to the 

 upper red shales. 



South of the quartzite ridge just described occur the^massive blue 

 limestones, underlaid in their turn by thinner beds with cherty and 



* Described by Mr. King, vol. VIII, p. 67. 

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