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BALL : GEOLOGY OF AUEUNGA AND HUTAE COAL FIELDS. 



§ECTiON 2. — Talchir Group. 



GoNDWANA System: 

 The following table indicates the geographical distribution of the 

 Gondwana rock groups 'in Palamow and the neighbouring portions of 

 the adjoining districts :— 



Table sJioming the distribution of the Gondwana roch groups in the coal fields 

 of Palamow and adjoining areas. 



HAZA.BIBAaE.a 



Paiamow. 



SlESTTJA. 



Itkuri. 



Chope. 



Karanpura. 



Anrnnga. 



Hutar. 



DaltoagTinJ. 



Tatapani. 



Bisrampw. 







Mahadeva ... 



Mahadeva ... 



Mahadeva 





Mabadeva 



Mahadera. 







Panchet 



Panchet. 









....„ 







Eanigunj ... 



Eanigunj. 













Barakar ... 



Barakar ... 



Barakar 



Barakar 



Barakar ... 



Barakar ... 



Barakar ... 



Barakar. 



Talchir ... 



Talchir ... 



Talchir 



Talchir 



Talchir ... 



Talchir ... 



Talchir ... 



Talchir, 



Besides the above there are several isolated areas both in Hazari- 

 bagh and Palamow where the Talchir group only is represented. 



The Talchir rocks have recently, on account of the characters of 

 their fossil contents, been degraded from their position as a series readily 

 separable from all rocks of the Darauda series to that of a group under 

 the widely-spreading embrace of the Gondwana system. But the very 

 latest examination of their physical relations tends only to confirm the 

 propriety of the* earlier classification. 



It is believed from the characters of the fossils that the coal mea- 

 sures of Karharbari are really of this age in spite of lithological resem- 

 blance to Barakars. On this particular case I offer at present no opinion, 

 but can only say that in the many fields which I have examined the 



" Only the coal fields of the Hazaribagh district which are the nearest to Palamow 

 are included here. 



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