Chap. IV. § 2.] 



LOWES DAMUDA GROUP. 



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No coal is known to occur West of this for a considerable distance, 



,, _ , . the beds from Madanpiir to Etiapura on the 



Near Panuna. 1 l 



Nunia, being very similar to those seen from 

 Birkiinti to Churalia. Coal may, however, very probably be found 

 throughout this area, if a proper system of exploration by borings 

 or small sinkings be adopted. West of Panuria, and just South of a 

 small village called Digalpahari, there is an out-crop of what appears 

 to be a burnt seam of coal. 



East of Alipur and Etiapura, a great fault, with a down-throw to the 

 North-east, completely cuts off the fault, which has so far formed the 

 North boundary of the field. West of this, (and for a short distance 

 East of it,) the Talchir rocks come in, and the whole thickness of the 

 Lower Damuda group crops out. No good sections through them, how- 

 ever, are seen for a considerable distance. In the Nunia, just North 

 of Etiapura, two out-crops of coal are seen, and two, or perhaps three, 

 more near Alipur. All, however, here dip at high angles, and are doubt- 

 less broken from the proximity of the North-west and South-east faults. 



The lower beds of the Lower Damuda group are well exposed from 

 Etiapura to Samdi, in the numerous ravines and 

 broken ground in the neighborhood of the Nunia. 

 The following section, in continuation of that given previously from 

 the Talchir series, (see Fig. 3, page 36,) North of Samdi, illustrates well 

 the character of the beds. 



Fig. 5. Sketch Section of the Lower Damuda Bocks near Samdi. 



North of Samdi. 



3 a T 



(Ascending.) 



A, Talchir rocks. 



1. White felspathic false-bedded grits and sandstone, conglomeritic 

 in places. 



