Part K] 
King: Geology of the Upper Godavari bnsin. 
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Assaralli; bixt these beds are shifted out of what would be the course of the band, 
and very possibly belong to the uppermost Bagarani zone. 
The Tondala outcrop is underlaid by the Sironcha sandstones as far as 
Chitur, where the latter also end abruptly at an east-west fault, and are succeed¬ 
ed in their strike by two fresh outcrops of limestone. The nearest of these to 
that of Assaralli is a rather broad and distinct one, running down to Ankissa. 
This is of the usual Kota stamp, and I take it as corresponding to that outcrop, 
though no fossils were found in it. 
Some 3 miles further west a very strong and rather broad band of lime¬ 
stones occurs close to Ardium, and thence it is continued south-east to the left 
or north bank of the Godavari. There was no yield of fossils here, but this 
band must, I think, be looked on as answering to that of Metapali-Itial in the 
Pranhita area. The feature of this outcrop is, that it is unmistakably faulted 
against Sironchas, while it rests on sandstones, clays and shales of the Kota- 
Maleri type. 
The great east-west or Indravati reach of the Godavari presents a blank of 
new alluvial deposits, but on the right or opposite bank two broad spreads of 
fossiliferous limestone are again met with which must be continuations of those 
at Ankissa and Ardium. 
The Assaralli outcrop could not be expected to appear, as it must have trended 
under the Chikiala sandstones of Woraguram. However, to the west of this 
village, there is a gi’eat show of strong beds, for about a mile in width, implying 
a thickness of 448 feet at least; and in a tumbled outcrop of these I found a 
fine skeleton of a fish and matted masses of scales. Here also are two thin 
seams of carbonaceous shale, an accompaniment which adds further to the identi¬ 
fication of this as the Kota band. In the broad outcrop of thick-bedded lime¬ 
stones, I obtained a few specimens of fish and saw many others which could not, 
however, be chiselled from the huge blocks of hard splintery rock. This band 
could not be followed further south than Palmela owing to the covering gravels 
and sands. 
Three miles further westward there is again a wide belt of limestones having 
its western edge near Lankalagada, in which a few more fish-remains were found. 
Here, again, the beds are faulted against sandstones forming the bank of the river, 
the north-north-east dipping strata being bent down to the southward at the 
Lankalagada end of the fault. The line of fault is not very clear, but it was 
more or less east and w'est, rather to the south of east. The limestones, like 
those of Ardium, overlie sandstones, which must be considered as of the Kota- 
Maleri group. The sandstones on the noith side of the fault, and forming the 
bank of the river, are, I think, Kamthis. 
This outcrop is traceable south as far as Sigampali, and beyond this only 
faint traces of limestone occur near EedipaH and towards Ahilapuram, where 
the Kota-Maleri strata trend close on the Kamthis of the ridge south of the 
village ; but there is no section showing the relation of the two groups. 
In this southern portion of the field, there are no strata answering exactly 
to the Maleri member of the group, or the proper Red-clay sub-division; but 
