Chap. IV. § 4.] 



RANIGANJ GROUP. 



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here overlap very considerably. Indeed, it appears probable that the 

 Nunia section includes a smaller thickness of rocks than occur any 

 where else in the Raniganj series, in consequence of the absence of 

 all the highest beds. But even allowing for this, there does not appear 

 to be the same abundance of coal in this part of the field as further 

 East, and the seams which occur are thinner. 



Hatinal. 



VI. Ghinakuri and its neighborhood, with the country West, as far 

 as the Bardkar River. 

 By reference to the map, it will be seen that the rocks intersected 

 in the Nunia, near Sitarampur, Gharwi, &c., 

 strike across to the W. S. W., and are again 

 exposed in the Hural, a stream running into the Damtida, West of 

 Chinakuri. No section is seen at the base of the series, the rocks 

 near which crop out, however, near Jassaidhi, in one or two places, 

 and consist, as elsewhere, of thin micaceous sandstones, with hard, 

 somewhat calcareous bands. South of this, at Hatinal, and about 600 

 or 700 feet above the ironstone shales, a coal seam is worked, which 

 gives the following; section : — 



Shale. 



Carbonaceous ditto 



Coal 



Shale 



Coal 



Shale 



Coal 



Total thickness of seam 

 Coal in ditto 



Ft. in. 



3 



1 2 



I 



9 



2 



6 



8 5 

 7 11 



The partings, however, are not constant throughout the workings. 



