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2. — Section along the nullah south of Agar-t. 

 As the Moua-t nullah^ and subsequently the Sendur river, run along 

 Section alon"' nullah ^^ strike, more or less, of the Raniganj series, 

 south of Agar-t. ^^iQ section is not very clear ; but we obtain a very 



good one along the nullah south of Agar-t, where in descending order 

 the following series occurs (see jfig. 1, Plate III) between the Mahadevas 

 and the Sendur river : 



G. — MahADETAS . . Sandstone of the Pipraul escarpment, described above, page 21. 

 f 47. Shales. 

 46. Conglomerate with angular fragments of metamorphic 



rocks. 

 45. White friable sandstone. 

 44. Clays, clunchy. 

 43. Thick beds of fine-grained white friable sandstone and 



shales alternating with grits. 

 42. Thin bed of yellow, hard, ferruginous clay shales. 

 41. Bed of carbonaceous clay. 

 40. Thick-bedded white gritty sandstone, alternating with 



grey shales. 

 39. Fine-grained white sandstone, very sandy. 

 38. Sandstone with hands of iron ore. 

 37. Clay shales. 



36. Grits, very friable, chiefly consisting of pebbles and frag- 

 ments of quartz. Dip 15 to 20° S. W. 

 35. Grey shales. 



34. Coarse conglomeratic sandstone and grits. 

 33. Clunchy shales. 

 32. Coarse-grained sandstone. 

 31. Clunchy clay shales. 

 30. Felspathic sandstone and grits. 



29. Thin bed of grey clay shales with boulders of beds be- 

 neath. 

 f'28. Quartz sandstone alternating with red shales. 

 I 27. Yellowish finer- grained sandstone with beds of red sand- 

 I stone. 



«{ 26. Thick -bedded red feiTuginous sandstone with pebbles of 

 quartz separating into jointed masses. 

 25. Thick masses of quartz sandstone with occasional beds of 

 (__ finer-grained yellow sandstone. 



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F.— Panchets 



E.— Eaniganj 



