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MANGANESE DEPOSITS OF INDIA : DESCRIPTIVE. [PaRT IV ; 
The rocks of this district consist of horizontally-bedded flows of 
basaltic and amygdaloidal lavas belonging to the 
main body of the Deccan Trap formation. This 
covers a vast expanse of the surface of Western India, and, except for 
some points W. of Nasik, reaches its highest elevation above sea-level on 
the Mahabaleshwar plateau, the culminating point of which is Sindola 
(4,713 feet). This, with the exception of the point near Akola already 
mentioned, is also the highest point on the Deccan Trap portion of the 
Western Ghats, i.e., north of the South Kanara district. Owing no doubt 
to the excessive rainfall during the south-west monsoon, Nature's de- 
nuding agents acting on the traps have excavated in them deep valleys. 
Those radiating from the Mahabaleshwar plateau are like deep notches 
in its edge and are often 2,000 feet and more below the general level of 
the plateau, which is often bounded by stupendous cliffs descending 
very steeply in a series of stepped vertical scarps. The highest points 
of the Mahabaleshwar and Yeruli plateaus, and of other elevated tracts 
in the district, are capped by patches of laterite, of no great thickness, 
which possibly once formed a more or less continuous sheet. 
The manganese -ore occurrences of the foUow- 
Localities. jj^g localities were examined by me : — 
1. Lingmala, 
2. Bhekauli, * 
3. Chikhli, 
4. Yeruli ; 
but in addition to these Mr. Wright reports manganese-ore from the 
following localities : — 
5. Metgotar, 
6. Awkali, 
7. Malusar, 
8. Sindola, 
9. Tekowli, 
10. Kas and neighbourhood. 
Manganese-ore has also been found by Mr. H. Wallinger of Satara near : — 
11. Khanapur. 
All the localities named are on the Mahabaleshwar plateau, with the 
exception of No. 4, which is on the YeruH plateau near AVai ; No. 10, which 
is about 16 miles S. S. E. of Mahabaleshwar and 12 miles west of 
Satara ; and No. 11, which is in the south-eastern corner of the district, 
