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RANIGANJ COAL FIELD. 



[Chap. IV. § 4. 



for brick burning. Three or four quarries belonging to various proprie- 

 tors are at work. The dip is 5° to 10° South 30° East, and the 

 section in Messrs. Acland and Co.'s quarry is : — 



Shale and sandstone about 



Hard gray sandstones 



Shale and sandstone interstratified 



Dark shale 



Gray sandstone 



Coal 



Shale 



Coal 



Shale 



Coal 



Total of seam 

 Coal in ditto 



Ft 



10 

 1 



6 



in. 





 

 6 



6 



1 10 



3 10 

 2 

 10 



2 



1 



The section, as usual, however, shows some variation, and in the next 

 quarry becomes 



Coal 

 Shale 

 Coal 

 Total of seam 

 Ditto Coal 



No deep workings whatever have been made upon this seam, but the 

 whole out-crop, or nearly the whole, appears to have been extracted. 



Between Jorjanki and Parasia, the section in the Singaran is frag- 

 mentary, no regular succession of rocks being seen, and the valley 

 being filled in most parts with alluvium. So far as can be made out, 

 the beds appear to dip regularly, but there is no doubt that the whole 

 district is much disturbed by faults, some of them probably of consi- 

 derable size. Two small seams of. coal, the largest only 3 feet thick, 

 occur within 80 or 100 feet above that worked at Jorjanki. The dip 

 becomes more Eastwardly, and the burnt out-crop of a large seam is 

 seen about 1 mile East of the village of Kolasturi. It is possible 



