20 king: coastal region of the godavari district. 



Gollapili are preserved in a fine-grained sandstone of red-brown colour ; 

 this rock is totally different from the former one, and yet belongs to the 

 same group and includes the same fossils." 



" The lilices are not very frequent, but all that occur bear exactly 

 the Rajmahal character." 



" As well as in the Rajmahal group of the Rajmahal hills, also here 

 at Gollapili, the Cycadeacece are very well represented, except the genus 

 Cycaclites ; but we find frequent Ptilophyllum and PteropJiyllnm ; Dic- 

 tyozamiles, Oldh., also occurs," 



" Remains of coniferous plants were found also pretty abundantly 

 near Gollapili, as is generally the case in the upper portion of the Gond- 

 wana system." 



The plant remains were nearly all found near Ravacherla and Bura- 

 Fossil localities and vancha, 6 miles west of Gollapili, in softish brown 

 type area. anc [ p Ur p] e sandstones, there forming three low 



and south-eastward sloping terraces with low scarps to the north-west- 

 ward. These beds are very near the bottom of the series — in fact just 

 above a thin set of bottom beds, the village of Ravacherla itself being 

 on the garnetiferous or Bezvada gneiss. Other, but very fragmentary, 

 remains were found further north, around Musumir, in a set of soft 

 micaceous shales and flags of much finer texture than the Ravacherla 

 beds, which are even lower in the series, there having been a thickening 

 out of the strata towards Nuzvid. Gollapili is on still higher beds, but 

 it is the largest and most important village in the field; hence its name 

 has been given to this group. 



The group is not of much thickness, seldom at its thickest more 

 than 300 feet. At the Gollapili end, the beds are 



Thickness 



lying in a shallow basonal way, with a low rise to 

 the north-westward ; and from this area they are continued to the east- 

 north-east in a long outcrop at the foot of the scarps, striking past Tand- 

 kalpudi, Tripati, and Ragavapuram to Bimulu, some 5 miles from the 

 right bank of the Godavari, where they die out altogether and are over- 

 lapped by the Tripati sandstones. 

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