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tilted up for some distance along the line of fault to an angle of 30° 

 to 35°. This inclination^ however^ rapidly decreases^ and tlie beds 

 become nearly horizontal before the east side of the area is attained. 

 There can be no doubt these two outliers of limestone are of one and 

 the same geological age. Not the faintest indication of any organism 

 could be detected in them. 



No organic remains or traces of such were obtained from any of 

 the Bhima roeksj the one doubtful piece of fossil-wood or bone found at 

 Kusukunuhal (see page 143) excepted. Mr. E. G. Balfour, Surgeon- 

 Generalj Madras Medical Department, in writing to Mr. King and 

 myself, claimed to have discovered some fossil at Gogi, which was lost 

 subsequently. He did not describe its nature, and Mr. King, who made 

 special search in consequence, was unable to find any organic traces. 



Attention has already been drawn to the very strong general resem- 

 blance of the rocks composing the Bhima series to those of the Karnul 

 series on the eastern side of the Peninsula — a resemblance due in great 

 measure to the identity in lithological characters of the debris of the 

 more ancient rocks of which both series have been formed, but also in all 

 probability in large degree depending upon the similarity of circumstances 

 under which the two series accumulated. Although in the absence of un- 

 questionable organic remains and of stratigraphical evidence of synchron- 

 ous deposition the exact correlation of the two series is not feasible, yet 

 there is, from the very great petrological resemblance and from the 

 geographical position of the two basins, a good deal to suggest the idea that 

 they were once continuous and have been separated only by denudation. 



There need be no hesitation in provisionally classing the Bhima rocks 

 with the Lower Vindhyhan series as Mr. King is inclined to regard the 

 Pem group of Mr, W. T. Blanford, an important group of sandstones 

 and shales widely developed in the Godaveri basin, as the equivalents of 

 the Karnul series, and this Pem group is considered by Mr. Medlicott an 

 undoubted representative of the Lower Viudhyans. 

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