166 rooTE : south mahratta country. 



The most easterly occurrence of these deposits was seen at the 



village of Nagurbetta"^ on the south side of the 

 At Nagurbetta. 



hill of the same name, which stands at the junc- 

 tion of the lowermost trap-flow with the gneissic beds, the inequalities 

 of the surface of which latter are seen to be filled with red and white 

 mottled grit in an unconsolidated condition. Higher up the sloping 

 ground, south of the village where the Bhima beds appear forming an 

 outlier, this mottled and sometimes clayey grit was not seen to occur. 

 These Bhima beds have doubtless yielded the few quartzite and hard grit 

 pebbles enclosed in the washed-up beds. The latter are rarely more 

 than a couple of feet thick, and rest upon decomposing pink granitoid 

 gneiss with many veins of coarse salmon-colored granite, the broken-up 

 pink felspar crystals of which constitute the greater mass of the washed- 

 up beds. 



Occupying the same position is the pebbly unconsolidated grit 

 occurring below the trap on the north side of this 



At Murala. 



Nagurbetta trap outlier and seen exposed in the 

 rain-gully sections immediately south of the village of Murala (Mooral 

 Heereh), where it has a thickness of upwards of 7 feet. The grit here 

 rolls about at low angles, as do the overlying trap-flows. No indica- 

 tion of organic remains were seen in these sub-trappean washed-up 

 grit beds. 



Drab-colored calcareous tufa, with one or two thin beds {%" to 1') of 

 drab friable sandstone are seen exposed in a small 



Near MuddeLihal. 



network of rain gullies on the west side of the little 



outlier of trap lying two and a half miles south-east of Muddebihal. These 



beds are totally different in appearance from any of the formations which 



were noticed when describing the rocks of unequivocal Bhima age. 



They occupy only a few score square yards superficially, and apparently 



fill up a small depression in the gneiss. 



* Near Nalutwar in the Muddebihal Taluq, Kaladgi district (N. W. quarter sheet 58), 



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