ALLUVIAL DEPOSITS. iBl 



typical cinnamon brown colour occurs along the western part of the 

 Nittur reach and to the south-south-west of Karabbagaddi fort. At 

 the former locality I obtained a palaeolithic quartzite implement of 

 fairly good make from the surface of the gravels. 



Another notable show of these high-level gravels occurs on the 

 right bank of the river west-south-west of Holal. 

 Hda! n2le beds near The gravels are much hidden by cotton soil 

 which covers their irregular surface. In places 

 where the gravels with the overlying cotton soil form slopes rising 

 eastward, and the former show protrusions through the latter, small 

 fans of the cinnamon-coloured pebbles have been locally spread over 

 the black soil. The gravel beds in this neighbourhood rest directly 

 on the upturned edges of the drab Dharwar schists which occur so 

 largely all over the Holal plain. 



Many patches of the high-level shingle occur at irregular inter- 

 vals down stream along the river reaches 

 jShmglebedatHampa- bet ween the Honur Gorge and the village of 

 Hampasagra where the river has cut a steep 

 cliff in which, and in the knoll to the south (on which the travellers' 

 bungalow is perched), the nature of the gravels is well seen. They 

 are also conspicuous at Bassarkod, Bamingola and Mutakur, localities 

 lying respectively 4, 6, and 10 miles further down the right bank. 

 Below the barrier of Dharwar rocks over the river at the north end 

 of the Sandur hills the shingle beds are less fre- 

 Woda^la beds at q uent ly seen, and as a rule of much less extent. 

 An exception to this rule is formed by the 

 Wodagola gravel beds on the northern edge of the Penner Haggari 



. „ .. Dharwar band, Another exception is a shingle 



AtBagawadi. r & 



bank at Bagawadi, 4 miles above the junction of 



the Tungabhadra and Haggari. 



The most easterly shingle formation belonging to the high-level 



series that is deserving of special mention is 

 At Nagaladinni. . . . 



that capping or rather forming the ridge of 



high ground about a mile south of Nagaladinni (Naguldinny) in the 



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