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the rocks, further than that the trap is o£ the same kind as that he had 



observed in the Deccan. 



However, this region had not long to wait after this for thorough 



scientific treatment, for in 1855 — 1860 the Rev. 

 Worked out by Kislop. , . • . 



Messrs. Hislop and Hunter issued papers 1 treating 

 incidentally of this region. 



Hislop's last paper is mainly taken up with the traps and intertrap- 

 peans in the neighbourhood of Nagpur ; but there is a good description 

 of the Pungadi and Kateru rocks, and nearly all the fossils which 

 have been found up to this time in the intertrappean beds are described 

 and figured. He is strongly of opinion that the trap underlying the 

 limestones is newer than that above, — in fact that it is an intrusive sheet; 

 and I must say that, though he did not see the rocks here, there is rather 

 more apparent evidence about them for this view than what he offers for 

 the Nagpur outcrops. Of the age of the Godavari rocks and their 

 fossils, he says, — " From all these facts, I am disposed to deduce the 

 inference that our intertrappean or subtrappean deposits belong to the 

 lower eocene;" and this may be true for the intertrappean beds, at any 

 rate, though, as will be seen further on, there is some evidence towards 

 ranging them rather lower than this in the geological scale, even to the 

 possibility of their being of intermediate age between the secondary and 

 tertiary periods; while the infra- trappean beds appear to have upper 

 cretaceous affinities. 



The succession of rocks in the whole series of traps and f ossi- 

 ferous beds in the Pungadi region, where it is 

 also most perfect, is, in descending order : — 



Basalts 



Fossiliferrous limestones ... ... ... Inter -trappean. 



Basalts 



Fossiliferous limestones and calcareous sandstones ... Infra-trappean. 



At Kateru, there are only the upper and lower traps, with an inter- 

 mediate band of fossiliferous beds. 



1 Quart. Journ. Geol. Soc, Lond., Vols. X, p. 1655; XI, p. 365; and XVI, pp. 154—166. 



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