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Medlicolt, Skapur Coal-field. 
north-westerly elbow above the Murdanpur coal crops. The exact line is not traceable in the 
covered ground north of Douri, nor can it be fixed on the Tawa. It has probably died out 
in that direction, as all these features are clearly connected with the special disturbance of 
the stratification along the margin of the basin. To the south-west the fault is seen at the 
base of the range of gneissic rocks at the mouth of the Amdhana gorge. Its continuation 
up the valley lias not been followed out. 
For reasons already indicated, I should not advise any outlay upon an attempt to mine 
Site for a boring. tbe seams _ 111 tlle detached block of measures south of Murdanpur. 
„ . . „ ,, If t,wre is a «y continuity in the measures, the seams should be 
ound in a favorable position away from the fault-group. A good site for a boring would 
l ’® °" th , e left bank of the Tawa > a below the confluence of the Machna. A depth of 
4J0 feet here would probably prove the whole of the measures. 
The Scki AREA. 
The east end of this portion of the field, about Bhumkadhana and Kosmeri, is hopelessly 
Kosmeri. concealed and obscure. From isolated outcrops and the frequent 
. , , „ ,, occurrence of vein quarts, it is plain that the stratification is much 
disturbed. On the left bank of the Tawa at Kosmeri there is typical Barakar sandstone 
and on the right bank as typical Motor rock. At a few feet from the base of this latter 
group there is all along this portion of the boundary an extensive exhibition of trap rock 
appearing generally as a sheet-dike along the outcrop of a massive bed of rusty clay. This 
c inracter is well displayed in the Lobar river, where there is a wide spread of the sandstone 
covering the trap at a low angle, and broken and altered by it. 
In the Sulci itself there is an unbroken section, including apparently the whole Barakar 
The'SAki section. group; and if it is so, the promise of coal is very poor indeed 
^beie being no seam of workable thickness or quality. At the 
very mouth of the river the strong white Barakar sandstone is in force; typical Motur beds 
appearing a little to north of it on the left bank of the Tawa ; all with a steady northerly 
dip. At top of an irregular earthy parting in this hand of massive sandstone, there are 
three inches of platy coal. Up stream, in a short west-south-west reach, under the ton 
sandstone there is a flat section of very irregular flaggy sandstone showing already some 
Talchir characters. _ Above this there is a long north-south reach with no strong crop but on 
right bank the section is almost continuous; a low northerly dip in soft sandstone and sandv 
micaceous shale. Two of these beds are carbonaceous, with mere strings of coaly matter 
the associated sandstone being persistently fine, earthy, greenish. From the upper end of 
this reach to the causeway at the road-crossing there are continuous crops of strong fine sand¬ 
stone with a few thick irregular partings of sandy micaceous shale, faintly carbonaceous in 
strings. The flat reach above the road is along the top of a lower hand of softer, finer sand¬ 
stones, below which the Talchir clays come in with scarcely any associated sandstones.' In 
this section the characters of the two groups are run together in a very puzzling manner • 
the Talehir-Barakar sandstones are clubbed in force with interspersed carbonaceous matter 
The boundary adopted is a very marked one, but manifestly on a lower horizon than that 
taken on the Machna. If the section on the Machna were to be interpreted by the analogy of 
that on the Suki, the base of the Barakars should he taken well to the south of Shapur. ° 
The question of coal in this locality turns upon whether the shales observed become 
^Doubtful prospect of coal coa l to the deep, and whether some of the top measures may not 
be suppressed by faulting, I noticed no direct evidence for the 
latter supposition: there is no doubt much quartz-veining along the boundary at this spot, 
hut I do not think it is connected with faulting; such is rarely and indirectly the case with 
