3S JONES: SOUTHERN COAL-FIELDS OF SATPURA GONDWANA BASIN. 



small excavation made here to a depth of 2 feet 8 inches, beyond 

 which I could not persuade the villagers to go, they being unaccus- 

 tomed to the labour, and owing to an accident which is said to have 

 happened at Barkoi during the time that the coal was being worked 

 there, they object to having anything to do with working coal. This 

 gives 9 feet 8 inches of coal seen, or at least 10 feet of actual coal, 

 since neither the top nor bottom of the seam was seen. The dip is to 

 the north at io° and the coal is overlaid by surface soil. 



In the Takea river almost due west of this spot the same seam is 

 Exposed again in exposed again at a distance of about one-third 

 Takea nver. f a m jj e f rom the first exposure. There is no 



reason to suppose that it is not the same seam, as the dip is the same 

 and there is no apparent break in the rocks, while it is just where it 

 might be expected to reappear. The section is much spread out and 

 partially concealed, but it appears to be : — 



Ft. In. 

 Shaly sandstone wtih carbonaceous matter- 

 Coal . . . . . . . . . . .40 



Forty feet lower down the river- 

 Coal . . . . . . . . . . .40 



Fifty feet lower down the river — 



Coal ...........50 



Fifty feet lower down — 

 Sandstone — 

 Shale- 

 Coal . . . . . . . , . . . 2 o 



Some of this coal may be a repetition by faulting, as the section is 

 not at all clear. 



This seam was reported on by Major Ashburner in 1866, and 

 either this or the one at Punnara is probably that referred to by Mr. 

 Sopwith in his report in 1867 as being a " fair seam 5 feet thick about 

 7 miles west of the Hingladevi seam." 



XVIII.— Just below Panara (E. Lon. 87 36'), in the Takea river, 



is a spot where the water falls over some massive 

 Outcrop at Panara. 



sandstone into a shallow pool below ; immediately 



under the sandstone and in contact with it 8 feet of good-looking coal 



is exposed dipping to north at io°, but on account of the water in the 



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