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ranges mentioned in the introductory chapter. The existence of such 

 barriers is far more probable than that the general level of this part of 

 India has been disturbed within late geological periods. 



These high-level gravels must be separated from those lying within 

 the reach of present floods^ for the former unquestionably represent a state 

 of things very different from what now prevails^ and constitute, in fact, 

 an older alluvium^ as do the high-level gravels of so many rivers in 

 Europe and elsewhere. 



Such high-lying gravels are frequent along the banks of the larger 

 rivers, and some of the more important cases 

 will be mentioned, beginning with the Krishna. 



1. An extensive gravel and shingle bed, consisting almost entirely 



of quartzite, occurs at Girgaon on the right bank 

 Of the Krishna. 



of the river, sixteen miles north-by-east of Kaladgi. 



2. A similar coarse quartzite shingle bed shows a little to east of 

 Swonna (Swoon). 



3. A deposit of quartzite shingle, resting partly on the trap, partly 

 on the gneissic rocks, a little to the north-east of Buloti ferry on the 

 Kaladgi-Sholapur road. This might possibly be in part derived from a 

 local infra-trappean conglomerate. 



4. A very considerable quantity of quartzite and quartz shingle 

 covers the slopes of the high ground above the present flood level of the 

 river from a little east of the Tangurgi (Tungurgee) ford at intervals as 

 far east as Islampur (Eechanpore). 



5. Coarse subangular chert shingle, some pieces almost boulders 

 in size, occurs half a mile north-west of Korur, on the left bank of the 

 Krishna, nine miles east by south of Sorapur. 



6. A great bed of similar chert shingle, with some pebbles of 

 quartz, quartzite, gneiss and a very few agates (the latter very common 



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