288 
Records of the Geological Survey of India. 
[tol. XI. 
The succession of beds on the Lower Godavari, wliicb W. T. Blanford and 
King have described in several 23apers in tbe Records, is more complex. Tbe 
following tabular statement bas been recently put forward by King:— 
r 
Uppee ( Jabalpur 
Gond- •{ 
WANAS. 
Eajmahal ... 
r . f' 
I Kamtbi ... .( 
I.OWEE I t 
Gond- 
WANAS. 
1 
Godavari District. 
Marine 
fossils 
and 
plants. 
f Tripetty 
I sandstones. 
■! 
I Ragavapu- 
ram shales. 
Golapilly sandstones 
Dumapett „ 
Chintalpoody „ 
Barakars ... 
Tiilchirs 
Nizam’s Dominions. 
L 
Sironcha sandstones 
Lingagudium „ 
PTacherla „ 
Barakars 
Talcbirs 
Central Provinces. 
( Cliikiala 
No ma- I sandstones ‘ 
rine fos-^ 
sils. I Kota and 
l^Maleribeds." 
Sironnha sandstones. > 
PTacherla sandstones. 
Barakars. 
Talehirs. 
Tbe Talcbirs sbow bere as everywhere else tbe same litbological characters. 
Above them follow tbe Barakars, coarse sandstones with very few coal seams, 
■wbicb have a strong litbological resemblance to tbe equivalent deposits in other 
basins. Tbe Kamtbis are tbe first to sbow a differentiated development. 
The Chintalpoody sandstones are rather fine-grained, and variegated in red, 
brown and ynolet colors; the D amapett sandstones, on tbe contrary, are coarser 
and less iron-stained. They include rather largo clay galls with plant-remains. 
Tbe Tacherla sandstones are chiefly brownish or reddish, but their position is still 
somewhat uncertain. 
With tbe Sironcha sandstones we enter tbe region of the Upper Gondwanas. 
They are grey and brown highly micaceous sandstones, over wbicb come conglo¬ 
merates and, finally, slaty brownish-grey, violet and yellow sandstones, with 2 )lant- 
remains. A higher horizon is occupied by the red clays of Maleri, in which have 
been found Hyperodapcdon, Parasuchiis^, and Geratoihis hidopianus, hunterianus, 
virapa and ohlongus, Oldham.® The Kota limestone with remains of Aechmodus 
and Lepidotus^ appears to be only a local dejiosit in the red clays. Hughes and 
King^ have recently also discovered plant-remains in these beds. The Gondwana 
series is concluded in this province by the Chikiala sandstone.s, wLich are com¬ 
posed of brown and red iron-stained sandstones and conglomerates, and show 
* The new work on the fossils of the Kota-Maleri beds by Egerton and Miall is also unfor¬ 
tunately still inaccessible to me. 
® Oldham: Mem. Geol. Surv. of India, I, p. 295. 
* Quart. Journ. Geol. Soc., VII, p. 272; IX, p. 350, &c. 
■* * Hughes: Kecords Geol. Surv. of India, 1X, p. 86. 
