HJ FOOTE: GEOLOGY OF THE BELLARY DISTRICT. 



tite quartzites show in full force in the Gabbigudda, the hill mass 



King between Haragandona and Sultanpur, and the lowest of them 



there rests directly on the Joga-Sultanpur trap which rises into hills 



from 400 to 500 feet high over the plain. Owing doubtless to the fact 



that they have been greatly tilted and lie at very variable angles* 



the trap flows of this region never show any tabular forms such as 



are so characteristic of the trapflows of the great Deccan trap and 



so many other trappean region. The Dharwar traps weather into 



round-topped hills and undulating plains. 



Turning eastward again we come to the Sugammadevibetta or 



Sugalamma Konda, as the highest peak in the 

 Sugammadevibetta. . , 



range is called by the Kanarese and lelugu 



people respectively, the Copper mountain of the European residents 

 of Bellary. No good section is here available ; the northern scarp is 

 too precipitous to be scaled in a direct line, and the southern slope 

 is greatly covered up by talus and long grass, owing to which there 

 are several large gaps in the succession of beds to be made out, and 

 these gaps can only be filled inferentially by studying the slopes 

 at some distance to the east and west. The hill is a fine one 

 from all sides, showing as it does so many fine cliffy scarps of 

 great height. The summit is to a great extent covered by a hard 

 quasi-lateritic sub-aerial crust of haematite debris cemented by a 

 ferruginous cement. This is the main cause of the sterility of the 

 summit, but further down, where the schistose and trappoid beds occur 

 in great thickness and weather into rich soils, the absence of trees is 

 due only to mischievous human agencies. 



The easiest way to ascend the mountain is by the path which runs 

 south from Bellagal past the artillery practising ground, and then zig- 

 zags up the hill to the south. On reaching the top of the spur the path 

 turns to the east, and continues rising steadily at an easy angle till the 

 last ascent is reached, when the angle becomes a steep one. Quite 

 half the distance can be done on pony back in ascending. There are 

 distinct paths leading from the summit to two other places, namely, 

 Halakundi on the Bellary-Bangalore road and Wobalapur (Woltapur of 



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