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Pakhal system.— Name used by W. King (Mem., Geol. Surv., Ind. 

 XVIII, 164, 209, 1881) for the probable equivalents of the Cud- 

 dapahs in the Godavari valley. Named from the village of Pakhal 

 (17° 58' ; 80° 1'), which stands near the western boundary of the 

 Pakhal series at its junction with the Archajan gneisses. The 

 system is divided into — 



2. Albaka series, 2,500 feet. 

 1. Pakhal series, 5,000 feet. 



Palaeogene. — Term proposed by F. Noetling (Pal. Ind., New Ser., 

 I, 51, 1899-1901) for the extinct species among the Tertiary 

 fossils of Burma. These were divided into four groups : — 

 (a) Indigenous, or species related to forms oceuring in the older 

 eocene rocks of the Indian region ; (b) Gallic, or species related 

 to forms known in the eocene of the Paris basin ; (c) Pacific, or 

 forms with descendants now in the Pacific Ocean, and (d) 

 Mediterranean, or those nearly related to species now living in 

 the Mediterranean sea. 



Palezkar beds. — Name used by C. L. Griesbach (Rec, Geol. Surv., Ind., 

 XIX, 49, 1886) for the lowermost part of his Plant-bearing 

 system in Afghanistan. For recent work on this, see Hayden 

 (Mem., Geol. Surv., Ind., Vol. XXXIX, part 1, 1911). 



Palklia shales. — One of the stages recognised by H. B. Medlicott 

 (Mem., Geol. Surv., Ind., II, 6, 1869) in his Semri (afterwards 

 Lower Vindhyan) series in Bundelkhand. From the Palkua hill 

 (24° 30' ; 79° 53') in Chattarpur State. 



Palnad beds.— Name used by W. King (Mem., Geol. Surv., Ind., VIII, 

 107, 1872) for rocks lithologically resembling the Kurnools in the 

 Palnad and adjoining districts of Hyderabad ; according to a foot- 

 note (ibid, 115), R. B. Foote considers these rocks as belonging 

 to the Cuddapahs. 



Panchet series.— Named by W. T. Blanford (Mem., Geol. Surv., Ind., 

 Ill, 29, 30, 1861) from the Panchet hill (23° 37' ; 86° 49'), which 

 is partly composed of this series in the Raniganj coalfield. 



Panghsa=pye Qraptolite band.— Name applied by T. H. D. La 

 Touche (Director's General Report, Rec., Geol. Surv., Ind., XXXVII, 

 p. 54 1908 ; Mem., Geol. Surv., Ind., XXXIX, 125, 1913) from 

 the village of Panghsapye, 8 miles north-west of Hsipaw, to a 

 white^J shale band in the Northern Shan States occurring 

 immediately above the Upper Naungkangyi beds and forming an 



