232 NERBUDDA DISTRICT. 



the south, these rocks are found down to the base of the hill, and rest on 

 the lower Damuda beds of the valley, but descending from Chatur to- 

 wards the north, a long spur, which runs out in that direction, will be 

 found to end abruptly in a small, half detached hill, where the following 



section is exposed. 



Fig. 15. Section seen near Chatur Hill. 



I 



(a) Conglomerate beds of the Mahadeva group ; horizontal, (b) Quartzite and lime- 

 stone, metamorphic ; vertical. 



The detached hill, itself as high as the end of the spur, is formed of 

 the nearly vertical beds of the quartzite and limestone of the schist 

 series, while in the latter, the horizontal conglomerate beds of the Maha- 

 devas, are brought close opposite to these in the side of the little gorge 

 which separates the two. ' The gorge itself being higher than the valley 

 beyond, the faulted boundary between the two rocks is clearly seen by 

 walking down it. 



East of this, again, the glen of the Barha Nuddi, (opposite to the open- 

 ing of which Kuluri village stands in the plain 

 gain • (see map) affords a section illustrating the faulted 



nature of the Mahadeva boundary. Here the massive beds of sandstone 

 and conglomerate (which farther on form Nimbnagur Hill) are seen to 

 be contorted on the large scale ; they are bent up at the end next 

 the boundary, and are cut off straight in a vertical scarp. 



Farther to the east, the valley of the Sitariva River, in which the 

 . „ . _, Mopani Coal beds are exposed, (see Fig. 8 p. 169,) 



Again in Mopani Sec- * f » \ if r 



tiou. affords some instructive sections, throwing light 



on the nature of the boundary of the Mahadeva. The river runs north- 

 wards from the hilly country into the Nerbudda valley, through a glen 

 in the upper part of which the Mahadeva conglomerate beds are seen to 



