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most likely incLuded the lateritic knolls for a couple of miles south of 

 the cantonment. Still further west the boundary may have reached as 

 far westward as Chattarband Kot (Chutturbund Kotta) eight miles west 

 of Kaladgi. At Badnur (?) (Budnoor) and Bantur (Buntoor) a thick bed 

 of laterite gravel with numerous fragments and chips of quartzite covers 

 a considerable area at a level considerably above the Ghatprabha valley. 

 This bed is also in part conglomeratic. 



The laterite occurring at Kaladgi rests upon a very uneven limestone 

 surface and is of very various thickness. South of the cantoument 

 near the cemetery it is a very compact rock, enclosing considerable frag- 

 ments of quartz. In the section shown in the jail well, from 30 to 40 

 feet of impure earthy laterite or " Moorum " is exposed, but it is doubt- 

 ful whether much of this is not of much more recent origin than the 

 conglomerate south and east of the town. A few miles east of Kaladgi 

 a laterite conglomerate forms a distinct terrace abutting against the 

 upper quartzite ridge west of Truchigeri (Troocheegaree), a similar 

 conglomerate at about the same level forms an outlier on a sharp-cut 

 little hill north of the village, and here rests on violet shales. Another 

 patch of conglomerate of identical character and occupying a relatively 

 similar position with regard to the general surface of the locality, caps 

 a small hill about \\ mile north-west of Anegwadi, on the north bank 

 of the Ghatprabha. The laterite here cannot be less than from 60 to 

 80 feet or more in thickness, and is exceedingly compact in texture, 

 showing very few vermicular or vesicular cavities : fragments of quartzite 

 that have apparently been weathered out of it lie about on the surface. 

 This conglomerate rests against the apex of the anticlinal ellipse to the 

 north of Anegwadi and extends to Tumurmatti ( Toomoormuttee) at a 

 corresponding level, and presents the appearance of having once been con- 

 tinuous with the outliers capping the Anegwadi and Truchigeri hills and 

 also the Truchigeri terrace before mentioned. Where the laterite lies upon 

 shaley beds, the latter have been affected to a considerable depth by the 

 percolation of ferruginous water. 



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