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system for the sandstones named Upper Bhander. Name taken 

 from that of the river which traverses the formation in Bhopal 

 State. 



Bezvada gneiss.— Named by W. King and R. B. Foote (Foote, 

 Mem., Geol. Sun., Ind., XVI, 25—27, 1879, and King, Mem., Geol. 

 Sun., Ind., XVI, 206, 1880) from the town of Bezvada (Bezwada) 

 (16° 31' ; 80° 40') in the Kistna district where it was first noticed. 

 Various garnetiferous gneisses and schists are included in the 

 group, occurring along the eastern faces of the hills from the 

 Kistna north-north-eastwards into the Vizagapatam district. 

 A prominent lithological type is garnetiferous and contains mur- 

 chisonite (King, Bee, Geol. Surv., Ind., XIX, 150, 1886). 



Bhabar. — Vernacular term in use for the fringe of gravels along 

 the foot of the Himalaya. It is in this gravel that so many 

 of the rivers lose themselves on issuing from the hills to 

 re-appear in the lower and moister Terai. 



Bhabeh.— See Babeh. 



Bhaganwala stage.— See Baghanwala stage. 



Bhander series. — Named from a hill-range north of the Narbada 

 valley by T. Oldham (Joum. As. Soc, Beng., XXV, 251, 253, 

 1856). The uppermost series in the Vindhyan system. Divided 

 by E. Vredenburg {Bee, Geol. Sun., Ind., XXXIII, 259, 1906) 

 into — 



(6) Betwa . . Sandstones. 



(a) Haveli . . Shales and limestones with subordi- 

 nate sandstones. 



Bhangar. — Vernacular term in use to denote the small plateaux ol 

 older alluvium of a river system which are too elevated to be 

 flooded. 



Bhiaura quartzites.— Named by F. R. Mallet (Bee, Geol. Sun., 

 Ind., VII, 39, 1874) from the Bhiaura range in Northern Hazari- 

 bagh. A local stage in the " Sub-Metamorphics " below a series 

 of mica-schists which lie under the Mahabar quartzites (q.v.). 

 The quartzites sometimes break with a sub-vitreous fracture, 

 and occur in beds two or three feet thick in which no schistose 

 character is developed ; in other cases they are coarser in 



