ob GlUEHBACa : KAMKOLA AND TATAPANI COAL-FIELDS. 



shattered; especially towards the western and sonth-western portion of 

 it, that a strict correlation of the beds is not always possible. But 

 it is very probable that beds 16^ 17, 18, and 19 correspond with 

 beds of precisely similar lithological character seen in the Sendur river 

 section near Mitgain and in the nnllah near Bithiau (north of that 

 place) .1 



The coal is nowhere seen to advantage, and the quality seems very 

 inferior • it is^ in fact^ only a lignite, and does not promise to be profitable 

 for working. 



6. — Section along the Nidlah north of Meguli. 



In descending order from south to north : — 

 South : Banki Nullah 



5. Thiu-bedded sandstone with shales and a thin bed of coAL ; dip 

 gradually flattening. 



4. Light-coloured shales with bands of reddish shales and some ferru- 

 ginous hard bands, with concentric nodules of iron ore. 



3. Soft clay shales, dark coloured near base, lighter towards top. 

 Strike as sandstone. Containing Glossopteris ovalis, Fstml. n. sp • 



2. Hard quartzose white sandstone, alternating with softer beds and 

 shales, probably repeated by faulting, strike nearly east to west, 

 dip 20° sonth. A few nodules of ironstone are scattered through- 

 out the mass. 



1. Micaschist, strike north-north-west to south-south-east, dip 80° 

 uorth-east to east. 

 North : 



Banki Nullah. 

 Both this section and the exposure in the nullahs south of Gumharia 

 show that the Talchirs are overlapped by the Barakars, and that 

 the latter rest directly on mica schist, being represented by hard quartz 

 sandstone with ripple marking on surface of beds. On the map I have 

 marked this grouj) of shales and sandstones as Barakars^ but Dr. Feist- 

 mantel considers the form of Glossopteris contained in bed 3 as a Rani- 

 ganj form : it may be that beds of that horizon^ which is well represented 

 in the sections west of this locality^ strike across. It is at any time 



1 See fig. 3, Plate 111. 

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