AHMEDNAGAR (HIMATNAGAR) SANDSTONE SERIES. 139 



is conglomeratic and of a purplish tint, and it is sometimes coloured 

 brick-red, chocolate-brown, and rarely dark ferruginous brown. It 



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is generally fine-grained and rather loosely aggregated, although 

 coarser varieties of millstonegrit type are sometimes found, as at 

 the Berna quarries. 



The cementing material is siliceous and ferruginous, and the 

 rock in several of its layers makes an excellent 

 Freestone : quarries. fc^gfc^ especially the paler-coloured kinds, 

 and it is much quarried in and exported from the neighbourhood 

 of Ahmednagar for architectural and engineering purposes. The 

 best quarries are at Shaogar a little north of Ahmednagar (see 

 Economic section). Cross or current-bedding is common. There is 

 probably a thickness of about 100 to 200 feet altogether exposed. 



