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Dunghan limestone.— K. D. Oldham {Rec, Geol. Surv., Ind., XXIII, 

 94, 1890) proposed this name for a series of beds in Eastern 

 Baluchistan from the high hill (29° 52' ; 68° 22') east of 

 Spintangi. This limestone " caps the bare hog-backed hills east 

 of the Hurnai route to Quetta," but in other places gives way to 

 shales. It is said to be conformably overlaid by the Ghazij series, 

 and to contain a fauna which indicates an age near the gap 

 between the Cretaceous and Tertiary of Europe (Rec, Geol. 

 Surv., Ind., XXV, 23, 1892). Subsequent examination of 

 echinoid fossils obtained from beds which would be included in 

 the Dunghan series indicated a Danian age (F. Noetling, Rec, 

 Geol. Surv., Ind., XXVII, 124, 1894 ; Pal. Ind., Ser. XVI, Vol. I, 

 Part 3, 7, 1897). 



Dwarka beds. — Name proposed by E. Eedden (Mem., Geol. Surv., Ind., 

 XXI, 78, 125, 1884) for a series of beds exposed on the north-west 

 coast of Kathiawar (22° 14' ; 69° 1'). They consist of soft, 

 yellow, earthy, gypsiferous clays below, with foraminiferal sandy 

 limestones above. They contain no recognisable fossils, and their 

 relation to the underlying fossiliferous (Gaj) beds was not deter- 

 minable, but it is probably one of conformity. It is for this 

 reason that they are considered by Vredenburg (Summary of the 

 Geology of India, Table) as equivalent to or synonymous with his 

 Hinglaj series. 



Dzongbllk Shales. — The uppermost unfossiliferous shales of the Kampa 

 system (q. v.) overlying the Alveolina limestone on the Dzongbuk-la 

 (28° 16' ; 88° 41') in Eastern Tibet (H. H. Hayden, Mem., Geol. 

 Surv., Ind., XXXVI, 177, 1907). 



Echinosphaerites limestone.— Term used by F. Noetling (Rec, Geol. 

 Surv., Ind., Vol. XXIII, 79, 1890) for his Pyintha limestone on 

 account of the occurrence of fossils identified as Echinosphwrites 

 Kingi. This is really a Camarocrinus, allied to the Bohemian 

 genus Lobolithus (La Touche, Mem., Geol. Surv., Ind., Vol. XXXIX, 

 55, 1913 ; Cowper Beed, Pal. Ind., New Ser., Vol. II, Mem. 

 No. 5). 



Enctiarani quartzites.— Name used by W. King (Mem., Geol. Surv., 

 Ind., XVIII, 229, 1881) for his lowest sub-division of the Sullavai 

 series (Kurnools) in the Godavari valley. Encharani is the name 

 of a conspicuous hill, 1,362 ft. (18° 28' ; 79° 46') in the valley of 

 the Maner river. 



