Records of the Geological Survey of India. 
[vol. x. 
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In my rapid and rather devious march northwards from the Godavari District to the 
Central Provinces I was enabled to trace, on the western or Hannamconda side of the country 
in the Nizam’s Dominions, the connexion of the Godavari Gondwanas with their equivalents 
around Sironcha, Kota and Maleri; while some further extension of the coal-measures was 
found to be probable to the north of the Kamarum coal field near Paklial. 
Much of my time during the early part of the season was occupied in going over old 
ground in the Godavari District, examining the details of groups of rocks, so that'the area of 
country surveyed is not large; but in the traverse to the north a tolerably fair knowledge 
was obtained of the general character and relations of the rocks of a new area extending 
over about 2,000 square miles, or 1,590 square miles in Sheet 74, and in the Hyderabad 
Sheet 400 square miles. 
The succession of groups of rocks in the Godavari District (Sheet 94) remains the 
same as has been already pointed out in my previous notes; but some alterations as to 
the extent of these and a revision of their boundaries have become necessary in consequence 
of nry having found last year that, the patch of sandstones (Golapilly) north-north-west of 
Ellore is mostly of the Rajmehal group), and not, as was at first considered, of Kanrthi age. 
The groups which I would now finally put forward for the different series in this 
district, and tentatively for those in the parts of the Nizam’s Dominions and Central 
Provinces lately examined, are as follows, in descending order:— 
Godavari District. 
Nizam’s Dominions. 
Central Provinces. 
(Sheet 94). 
(Sheet 74). 
Pakhal, Modapur, Chinnur. 
(Sheets 73 and 74.) 
Sironcha, &c. 
Alluvium. 
Tertiary ... ...| 
Secondary ... Lameta ^ 
Rajahmandry sandstones (Cnd- 
dalore sandstone of H. F. Blan- 
ford). 
Kartairoo traps and inter¬ 
trap peans. 
Pangady infratrappeans.* 
Deccan Trap. 
C Jabalpur 
Tripetty sandstones... 
... 
Chikiala sandstones. 
Upper J 
Gondwanas. j 
Ragavapuram shales 
... 
Kota and Maleri beds. 
Rajmehal 
Golapilly sandstones 
Sironelia sandstones 
Sironcha sandstones. 
\ Kamthi-j 
1 l 
Lower j 
Gondwanas. j 
i 
Dummapett sandstones ...■) 
Chintalpoody sandstones ...j 
Barakars (Beddadanole and 
Badraehellum, &c.). 
Liugagoodium sandstones'! 
P Tarcherla sandstones j 
Barakars (Kamarum and 
Singareny). 
? Tarcherla sandstones (at 
Kaleswaruin). 
Barakars (Nandpa, Chanda 
Sheet). 
L 
Talchirs (Badraehellum &c.). ... 
Talchirs (Singareny, Kama- 
rum, Gullady, &e). 
Talchirs (Nandpa). 
Vindhyans 
Crystalline 
Kadapahs (western side of 
Sheet 94). 
Gneiss (Garnetiferous) 
Kadapahs (Pakkal and 
Chinnur). 
Gneiss (Granitoid). 
Kurnuls, (Nandpa, Ka- 
mana, &c. 
Kadapahs (Nandpa). 
The Godavari District. 
The Upper Gondwanas, consisting of Tripetty sandstones, Ragavapuram shales, and 
Golapilly sandstones, occur as a narrow belt of from 10 to 15 miles in width across 
the district in a west-south-west to east-north-east direction, from the neighbourhood of Ellore 
* 1 think the fossils of the Paugady Infratrappeans (Bamcta) show cretaceous affinities.—W K. 
