TOPOGRAPHY I 



71. Other Gondwana rocks, again chiefly sandstones which are 

 often ferruginous, form hills in Rairahkol. These are said to be 

 of the Mahadeva (Middle Gondwana group). The Kuhuri hill (Boita 



close to the town . * her. the riv.T nit- thn.u-h 



the strata, hut here it is perhaps the Talchir boulder bed which is 



The Tal'chirs! as ' n.d in the small 



Talchir state, and the area known as the Talchir coalfield is said to 

 extend about 70 miles from Rairakhol to Khadakprasad on the Brah- 

 mini River. The ►geologists, underlie the actual 



arenaceous shales. 



The flagstc 



mes of the P.W.D. bungalow at Nakchi 











72. in 













Damudas (Barakar beds) have been 





Both Talchirs and 























, iu Kaimkliol.* If this 















I'iin ,uul A i 











curves ruuiiil tln-MUu'li Bamra, as such 







through seve 



b of fche Sambalpur and 



H .■itbil.ii i 







, Jhargati, Gharpati, Sangramul, etc.). 



.art of the above Rairakhol-Talchir area 

 ! sandstone in the north of Angul which are 



<ociated with a little laterite. 



part of the same blook is granite or gneiss, and the 



covered with rounded quart/, stones. In this forest 



show Sal growth, whereas the western parts are mixed 



iormity. But most of the laterite is pn>lul>!\ 

 ourse of formation. On the Neterhat plateau 

 •cry free from siliea. and contains a large excess 

 3 largely in the Southern 



type. Laterite occupies large areas abou 

 situated the Jaimangal and other small f. 

 ruptedly to Cuttack and into Athgarh and 

 Juttack between Kapilas and Bysee, and at 



■ there is a 



valleys of the amygdaloid 



