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masks the terrace structure when an observer is on their flanks. The 

 succession is as fellows'^ : — 



1. Iron-clay (laterite). 



2. Amygdaloid. 



3. Basalt. 

 4. 



5. Amygdaloid, red and brown. 



6. Basalt. 



7. Amygdaloid, purplish, soft. 



8. Basalt. 



The lower beds here exposed extend far around on all sides, and may 

 Illustrative of sur- ^® traced by the eye for many miles in the various 

 roun ing coun ry. spurs branching away from this great mass, which 



is the most easterly in which the uppermost flows are met with in this 

 region. The lower flows connect the Baged Gudda spur with the group of 

 high trap hills east and north-east of Manoli, and with those forming the 

 Chikori hills, as well as with the lower basaltic plateau ridge (underlaid 

 by amygdaloid) extending eastward along the northern frontier of the 

 Mudhol State till they meet the two ridges of quartzites forming the 

 Jamkhandi hills. To the north the lower flows form several rocky 

 ridges, stretching away into the Krishna valley. The hills north of 

 the Krishna near Athni (Hutnee) and Goteh may safely be said to be 

 made up of extensions of the Baged Gudda series. Further east and south- 

 east, as the ground sinks, it is difiicult to trace the extensions of the flows 

 with certainty, as great surfaces are covered up with thick spreads of 

 cotton soil and other superficial deposits ; this is the case with a flow of 

 doleritic trap occurring at and around Mudhol, where it is doubtful 

 whether it underlies or overlies a flow of amygdaloid which occurs to the 

 north of Mudhol near Sirul (Serool) . The doleritic and basaltic flows 

 forming the group of hills at Gosbal and Kaujalgi (Kowjalgee), east 

 of Gokak, judged by the level they occupy, represent the three lower 

 members of the Baged Gudda sections. 



* The flows given are only the important ones which form distinct features ; smaller 

 flows and partings were not reckoned. 



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