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Foraminifera has been revised by E. Vredenburg (Rec, Geol. Surv., 

 Ind., XXXIV, 85, 186, 1906). There is a distinct stratigraphies! 

 break between the Lower Eanikot and the Deccan Trap or 

 associated Cardita Beaumonti beds, and between the Upper 

 Eanikot and the Laki series. P. M. Duncan and W. P. Sladen 

 (Pal. Ind., Sex. XIV, Vol. I, 99, 1882) considered that the fossil 

 echinoids of the Eanikot showed an indefinite Cretaceous facies, 

 with an absence of distinctive Lower Eocene forms. 



" Red bed " of the Irrawaddy series.— A ferruginous conglomerate 



has been adopted as a conspicuous and widespread basement bed 

 of the Irrawaddy sandstones m Upper Burma (F. Noetling, Rec, 

 Geol. Surv., Ind,, XXVIII, 77, 79, 1895 ; Mem., Geol. Surv., Ind., 

 XXVII, 105, 1898). (See also Irrawaddy system.) E. H. Cun- 

 ningham Craig (according to M. Stuart, Rec, Geol. Surv., Ind., 

 XXXVIII, 279, 1910) is of opinion that the " white bed," which 

 immediately underlies the " red bed " in the Yenangyaung area, 

 is well above the natural base of the Irrawaddy system. Stuart 

 (on the authority of G. E. Pilgrim) regards the " red bed " as 

 Pontian in age, and considers it to be a local and slight inter- 

 ruption in the deposition of the Irrawaddy system. The use of 

 the name as a definite horizon appears to be due to E. H. Pascoe 

 (Mem., Geol. Surv., Ind., XL, 30, 1913). 



Red Clay zone. — Descriptive name used by A. B. Wynne (Mem., 

 Geol. Surv., Ind., XI, 24, 1875) to designate the beds overlying 

 the Salt in the Trans-Indus salt range, Kohat district. 



Red Grit series Of Afghanistan.— Distinguished by C. L. Griesbach 

 (Rec,, Geol. Surv., Ind., XIX, 49, 1886) as part of his Plant- 

 Bearing System (loc. cit., 53). They were finally regarded as 

 partly Jurassic, but mainly Neocomian (he, cit,, and Rec, Geol. 

 Surv., Ind,, XX, 94, 1887) ; but H. H. Hayden (Mem,, Geol. 

 Surv., Ind,, XXXIX, 34, 1910) considers the series to be wholly 

 Cretaceous, as the underlying beds at Firainian, south-east of 

 Mashhad (36° 19' ; 59° 35'), contain Lower Cretaceous fossils. 



Reglir.— Indian name for the black soil which is prominent especially 

 in the Deccan (Telugu, regada). The soil in properties 

 resembles the characteristic soils of the American prairies. For 

 discussion regarding its nature and origin, see Man. Geol. Ind., 

 2nd Ed., 410, 1893. 



Reh. — Reh or kallar, the white alkaline efflorescence on usar (barren) 

 lands, forms in the dry regions of India as in the so-called " bad- 



