196 NERBUDDA DISTRICT. 



Some of the features of these landscapes will be seen illustrated in the 

 sketches already given, Figs. 9 and 10, and Plate IV; and also will be 

 found further shewn in Figs. 22, &c. below. 



§ 7. (a) Lameta group. 



It has been stated that the meridian of the Sher river is, as far as we 



» e xi, T i. know, the limit towards the east of the Mahadeva 

 Area of the Lameta 3 



beds - rocks. They seem to die out about here, and the 



hills hence eastwards are no longer formed of their sandstones and con- 

 glomerate as are those to the west. In this part of the country their 

 place is taken by the series we have now to describe, that is to say, we find, 

 faulted against the crystalline rocks, resting on the upper Damuda beds, 

 and covered by trap, in this eastern part of our map, not the Mahadeva 

 sandstones but the Lameta beds. 



In the bed of the Sher, near the village of Karyia, some beds of red 



and green fine grained sandstone with sandy indu- 

 Karyia section. 



rated marl are found faulted against the upper 



Damuda beds. 



Very little is seen of them as they are soon covered up on the south 



by trap, and only a thickness of 20 to 30 feet at most is exposed. From 



here, however, they stretch in almost unbroken 

 Farther E. 



continuity to the east as far as Lameta Ghat on the 



Nerbudda, where a good section of them is exposed. Near Jubbulpur 



they rest on the plant shales of the upper Damuda group and are covered 



by trap, and from thence they are found at the base of the trap hills 



which extend to the north east, and have been 



To the Johilla valley. 



traced up to the valley of the Mahanuddi, and 

 thence into that of the Johilla, At Lameta GMt 



Manner of occurrence. 



they are faulted against both the upper Damu- 

 das and the mica schists of the metamorphic series, but from hence to 



