162 FOOTE : SOUTH MAHRATTA COUNTRY. 



regular as usual, but they incline to the north-east at angles as high as 

 40°. A little further north they are covered up by the Deccan trap. 

 The line of country is illustrated in Section I, Plate IX. 



The limestones in the eastern part of the Bhima basin are the same 

 ^ , , as the usual grey, bluish, or fawn-colored hard 



General characters of o ^ ^ 



limestones east of the splintery silicio-magnesian rocks met with in the 

 Bhima. 



central part of the basin, and they belong to the 



lower division of the great limestone band lying between the lower and 



upper shale series. In the Bennathora and.Mulamari (Moolamurry) river 



valleys the limestones are more flaggy and earthy than elsewhere. The 



examination of the southern parts of the limestone area south of those 



rivers was incomplete. 



The position of the strata is generally horizontal, or they show a 

 Lie of strata generally slight dip to the north or north- westward. There 

 ^^ '^ "^ ^ ' are occasional undulations of the strata, and in 



one case (which has already been described) between Parvatabad and 

 Deyrun Tegganur, the strata dip at very high angles, or are vertical 

 on either side of the axis of folding. 



A very singular limestone breccia, the relation of which to the Bhima 

 Brecciated limestone I'ocks now described is obscure and doubtful, occurs 

 ° ^ ^ ^ '■ in the Agani valley and must here be noticed. 



This breccia forms a thin bed capping the gneiss to the west and north 

 of the village of Yeddihalli, forming a rudely crescent-shaped patch with 

 the horns of the crescent directed westward. It is very much obscured 

 by the large spread of cotton soil which covers both the higher and 

 lower ground of the Agani valley, but, as far as could be seen, it every- 

 where rests directly on the gneiss. From its external appearance it 

 might at a passing glance be taken for a part of the Talikot limestone 

 let down from the level of the plateau forming the south side of the 

 valley, as in the two cases described at p. 152, where the soft shaley sand- 

 stones had been removed by denudation, probably sub-aerial, leaving the 



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