BETWEEN THE SON AND THE BAN AS. 11} 



beds being a dull red sandstone full of fragments of the underlying 

 rock. Above these come red coloured conglomeratic sandstones, 

 capped by red sandstone without pebbles. 



South of Kharara village the pebbly sandstones overlie the trans- 

 ition rocks with a south-easterly dip of 30 to 35 , and about a 

 mile and a quarter beyond are cut off by a fault which, for some 84 

 miles, forms the boundary of the upper Vindhyans. Where this 

 boundary traverses the high ground north-east of Pansrer (Pansra) 

 it is well marked by the vegetation. The Vindhyan rocks bear the 

 usual scattered vegetation and thorny trees of the well drained hill 

 tops, while the transitions, better adapted to retain moisture, are 

 covered with a thick ground of Sal trees which extend right to the 

 boundary and rise along it in many cases as abruptly as if they were 

 an artificial plantation. 



South of Barhata the scarp of the outlier is composed of a 

 white quartzitic sandstone, containing small fragments of white 

 quartz and felspar, the latter generally decomposed. Similar beds 

 are seen to north and west of the village, but in the latter direction 

 they are overlaid by red sandstone with jasper pebbles. 



North of this village is a very instructive section. To the south- 

 east of Kunmou the white quartzitic base- 

 Section north of Barhata. , - , *., « , r . „ . 



ment beds of the lower Vindhyans form a range 



of hills, behind which comes broken ground occupied by the red 

 shales, and these again give way apparently by a fault to phyllites 

 of the transitions. Crossing these we come to a coarse conglo- 

 merate, containing many ill-rounded fragments of red jasper and 

 numerous white quartz pebbles of 6 inches and more in diameter, 

 besides darker coloured and less conspicuous fragments of quartzite, 

 the whole being cemented by a matrix" of dark red sandstone. 

 These conglomerates, which have a maximum thickness of about 

 250 to 300 feet, form a prominent peak on the western water-shed 

 of the stream which flows northwards from Barhata. They are over- 

 laid by an accumulation of angular fragments of slate and phyllite, 

 of the same character as the transition rocks of the immediate 

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