86 FOOTE : GEOLOGY OF THE BELLARY DISTRICT. 



level, ts very extensive to the north, west and south, in which directions 

 the eye ranges far and wide into the Nizam's territory, the Dharwar 

 District and the Mysore State. To the east the view is cut off by the 

 Sandur hill mass at a distance of from 35 to 40 miles. To the south- 

 east by east the high granitoid hills of the Rayadrug were identifiable 

 some 50 to 60 miles off. To the southward the view included the south- 

 east extension of the Dambal-Chiknayakanhalli band with Guhesh- 

 war gudda (3,286') and the Joga Maradi (3,803') as principal peaks. 

 Close in front of the latter the great granitoid mass of Chitaldrug 

 is distinguishable, but as the eye wanders westward from there no more 

 prominent points are recognizable, The nearer view along the back 

 of the ridge, as far as Jajkal gudda, is a very characteristic one of the 

 Dharwar rocks, so I have reproduced a sketch of it in Plate II opposite. 

 The Mallapan gudda haematites underlie a great series of horn- 



blendic schist, followed upwards by a great 

 Rocks over- and > J & 



under-lying the Malla- trapflow (seen in the pass east of Kanevihalli 



pan gudda haematites. . . . 



village), which in its turn is overlaid by another 



great thickness of hornblendic schists. Returning westward, the great 



haematite series is underlaid by hornblende schists with a few thin 



and unimportant haematite beds which rest upon red haematitic argil- 



lites. and these upon a considerable thickness of drab and greyish 



argillites. The succession is nowhere clearly enough seen to admit 



of measurements. 



As already pointed out, the Jajkal gudda haematite series must 



be regarded as the southerly extension of the 

 Jajkal gudda ridge. 



Mallapan gudda series, though the great beds 



cannot be correlated one by one because of the intervening gap of 



the Kannevihalli pass — a pass which may be safely assumed to owe its 



existence to the local impoverishment in iron of the several beds, 



which thus became softer and offered less resistance to the eroding 



forces which shaped the ridges. 



The haematite series is underlaid by, and intercalated with, chlo- 



ritic schists, which dip east at an angle of from 6o° to 70 . Intercalated 



with these chloritic schists and the haematites are some beds of red 



haematitic argillite which are crossed in ascending the Jajkal gudda. 



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