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GEIESBACII : RAMKOLA AND TATAPANI COAL-FIELDS. 



grotesque forms by denudation in the river and are fuP 

 of pebbles. In fig. 1, Plate II, I have represented this worn 

 sandstone, which is seen well in the Mitgain nullah. The 

 dip is rolling and the strike changeable. Near Mitgain the 

 strike is north-east to south-west, and the dip south-east. In 

 the nullah north-west of Mitgain they rest on mica schist, and 

 near the No. 326 H. T. on chloritic schist. 



B.— Banki eiver Sections. 



4. — Section along the nullah east of Gidhi and in the Banki River to Panri 



village. 



In descending order : fig. 3^ Plate III. 



The numbers correspond with those of beds in the Sendur river 

 section. 



G. — Mahadeva sandstone. 

 F. — Panchets. 



f38. Soft greenish-yellow sandstone. 

 37. Grey shales, with conchoidal fracture and much jointing. 

 36. Ditto, but with covering of oxide of iron on joint surfaces. 

 35. Purple shales, with carbonaceous markings and fossil traces. 

 34. Purple clays, with fossils. 

 33. Micaceous and ferruginous sandstone. 

 32, Light-coloured grey shales with carbonaceous markings, 

 31. Ferruginous micaceous sandstone separating into square blocks. 

 30. Soft yellowish sandstone. 



(__29. Ferruginous hard sandstone with beds of pebbly softer sandstone 

 jointed. 

 — Itaniganj. 

 f- No exposure. 



Rolled boulders of nodular clay iron ore in sand. 

 23. Yellowish thinly laminated shales, nearly horizontal. 

 22. Grey shales with fossils, passing into beds above containing— 

 Glossopteris angwstifolia, Egt. 

 „ retifera, Fstm. 



„ communis, Fstm. 



21. Felspathic white sandstone. 



/"Dark shales and sandstones, much disturbed. 

 20. < Shales with conchoidal fracture, with flaggy sandstone beds, hori- 

 / zontal and rolling, much jointed. 



1^19. Thick beds of sandstone, with strings of quartz pebbles, jointed. 

 No exposure. 



( 16a ) 



Dip 8° south-west { 



E.- 



Dip rolling 



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