154 FOOTE : GEOLOGY OF THE BELLARY DISTRICT. 



of the nullah east of Korlagundi, which nullah drains the north side of 



the Bellary hills. Here the dip is westerly at a high angle, but this 



may very likely be due only to a small local inversion. 



The best section across the band seems to be that from the top of 



the Sindigiri haematite ridge in an east-north-east 

 Sanawaspur section. ■•«'*» 



direction close past the village of Sanawaspur. 



Nothing is seen after leaving the haematite ridge but a succession 



of schist, hornblendic chiefly, but with a little micaceous argillite. 



The hornblendic schist shows up to within a few feet of the coarse red 



massive granitoid against which it is faulted. 



The easterly succession of schist outcrops seems quite undis- 

 turbed, and as they are also at high angles must represent a thickness 

 of many hundreds of feet, which can only be accounted for by a great 

 let down to the east. 



Owing to the extraordinary extent to which the generally low and 

 flat surface of the Dharwar rocks in the Bellary section of the PenneV- 

 Haggari band is covered up by superficial deposits, and especially by 

 the great and continuous cotton soils pread, it is impossible at present to 

 understand the stratigraphical relations subsisting in many parts of the 

 band, and unless some extensive artificial sections should be made 

 by consequence of the construction of great engineering or mining 

 operations, there seems little chance of much additional light being 

 thrown on the structure of this much obscured tract of the old schistose 

 rocks. Unfortunately there seems no probability of any such great 

 engineering or mining works coming to pass in this part of the Bellary 

 district. 



The same degree of obscurity as to the structure of the south- 

 easterly continuation of the band into the Anantapur district conti- 

 nues to prevail till the hilly tract which it forms in the valley of the 

 Penner is reached, and there the rocks are for a considerable distance 

 disposed in a synclinal fold, the southern extremity of which remains 

 as yet unexplored. 



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