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PART li] Kiiiy' Geology oj l/ic TJppor (ioduvnvi hctsiu. 
that I have had an opportunity of examining the Malori held more closely, I may 
say that these rooks remind me very much of those underlying the southern por¬ 
tion of the Matapali-Itial limestone hand. 
Thus far I can write of those southern beds, and the apparent absence or 
non-existence of any red-clay series ; but as the country has not yielded to me 
any evidence as to the boundary, except that there mu st be one in the approxi 
mate line I have drawn south-eastward from Madapur, I cannot say that the 
Maleri clays may not be hidden by faulting, or along an old steep shoi-e edge.. 
There is no doubt that the country above this reach of the Godavari is a good 
deal out up by dislocation, more generally in the east.west line, and there are 
indications of steep shore edges. 
As bearing on this, hoAvever, it may be as well not to leave out of notice a 
very exceptional occurrence of red and green clays some miles further south, 
right in the centre of one of the most unfrequented parts of this largest jungle 
waste in the Nizam’s dominions. About 13 miles south of Ahilajjuram, while 
working over an immense succession of ferruginous sandstones which must 
bo reckoned as Kiimthis (though I have hitherto always strained at an upper 
Gondwana jplace for them, owing to their Sironcha facies) on the Konda- 
party stream I suddenly came on high banks of red clays with green and white 
seams and partings of the well-known Maleri type. I tried all I could to carry 
this outcrop into some sort of relation with the coarse-brown sandstones in the 
adjacent jungle, but without success ; and I can only now record its occurrence, 
with the surmise that it is left there in the midst of Kamthi strata by faulting, 
or possibly as an outlying patch. 
Before turning north again to discover more closely the further evidence 
which has been obtained of the red-clay series, it will be as well again to note the 
points which have been gained or advanced so far— 
1. The Kota-Maleri group may be considered to consist of two members, an 
upper division characterized by having three well-marked limestone zones, two 
of which contain fish-remains having liassic affinities, and a lower division 
characterized by a strong development of red clays with remains of reptiles and 
fishes of triassic age. This marked difference of age of animal remains in what 
appears to be one group of a formation is now partly accounted for in the fact 
that the rocks containing one set are decidedly higher in the gi-oup than the 
rocks containing the other; and as there is still a certain amount of hesitation^ 
exhibited by my colleagues in their writings on this single point, I may 
be excused for reiterating this important feature in the stratigraphy of the Kota- 
Maleris. 
2. In the southern or Godavari area of the Kota-Maleris, the sandstones 
below the lowest band of limestones have thickened out enormously; and there is 
no known outcrop answering well to the Maleri clays. 
1 See Mr. Hughes’ Rec. Geol. Survey of India, Vol. XI, Part 1, page 25, line 34, et seq., 
W. T. Blanford, Palaiontologia Indica, Ser. IV—2, page 20, line 32, et seq. I never considered 
that the Kota limestone is a band intercalated in the Maleris, though I did agree with Hughes 
that the two might be of the one group. Again, in the Manual of the Geology of India, page 
xxiv, line 9, et seq. 
