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Beyond this, up to the junction with Supahi, there are no more 

 seams exposed. The rocks are grits and conglomerates with rare car- 

 bonaceous layers. Among the above the seam of real value appears to 

 be No. 30. The average composition of two specimens is good/ and 

 the thickness and dip both favourable to working. 



To the north and north-west of this line of section small patches 

 of Barakars have been cut out by the main bounding fault. The 

 Section in Chupatsi fi^^t is tolerably clearly seen, but the second seems 

 river. ^Q Ijg complicated by the occurrence of some 



small slips parallel to the main bounding fault. In the Chupatsi 

 stream there is a section of the carbonaceous zone shewing a diminution 

 in the number and thickness of the seams. There are here in all about 

 six, the coal being in bands from 6" up to 2' 6" in thickness. 



In the Satghoria river there is another cross-section of this zone. 

 Section in Satghoria The highest seam varies, within the limits of the 

 ^^^^'^■- width of the stream, from 1' to nearly 4'. Below 



it come a series of seams whose average thicknesses are as follows — 3', 2.', 

 1', 1', r. These occur in alternation with massive beds of grits and 

 sandstones of from 12 to 20 feet in thickness. There is no workable 

 thickness of coal exposed in either of these last sections. In the 

 almost entire absence of shales, they contrast with the section seen 

 near Hutar, but very closely resemble the sections near Purro on the 

 south of the field which will be described further on. 



The last tributary of the Supahi in this part of the field whose 

 section remains to be described, is the Atee. At 

 the point south-west of Bijka, where the Atee 

 river leaves the hills, there are Barakar grits and pebble beds with a 

 narrow border of Talchirs. The dips fall rapidly from 50° to 20°. 

 The lowest beds are much indurated and crushed by faulting, which is 

 further indicated by the presence of a ridge of fault rock which strikes 

 hence towards the Bijka hill. Among the broken fragments close to 

 the line of fracture there are some pieces of coal which are deriv^ed from 



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