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limestone beds, and a great deal of quartzite of purple colour with 

 the well-known quartz conglomerate which I first met with in the Niti 

 sections. 



Fig. 28. Contorted haimantas between Sonam and Angera camping-grounds. 



That the main mass of the strata between Naga and Pulamsumda 

 belongs to the haimantas I have little or no doubt, but the structure 

 of the beds in that area is so complicated and disturbed, that it can 

 be easily imagined that within the many folds of this system other 

 formations of the palaeozoic group may be represented, but to map 

 these strips in this desolate mountain region would require years 

 of work. 



Between Angar and Pulamsumda camping-grounds I noticed first 



the strata of the red quartz-shales (3^ which 



Red quartz-shales (3). # 



closes the haimantas above. It is seen as a 

 twisted, contorted red band along the hill slopes, and dips below dark 

 f ossiferous limestones with quartzites east of Pulamsumda. Here 



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