Records of the Geological Survey of India May 1877

x. In my rapid tied rather devious march northwards from the Godavari District to the Oentral Provinces ! was enabled to traces on the westernor Hannamconda side of the country n the Nizgm's Dominions the connexion of the Goditvari Gondwanas with their equivalents mound Sironcha Kota and Maleri ; while some further extension of the coal-measures was gaud to be probable to the north of the Kamit [...] The plateau-for& of the low hills even it the Sornavarum parts of the area is however so co' stant and the lithological resemblanq between the conglomerates to the south-west of the village and those in the sandstones underlying the Ragavapunam shales is so strong that I was alted to look on this area as all of Upper Gondwanas the Gloss.opteris and Vertehraria beds close to Somavarum bei [...] As already stated the wide outcrop of the Upper Gondwana beds with the gentle slope from the noithwest and the plateau-like character of the outlying hills more especially in the Gollapill/ and Sonavarum country aft wonterfullg ciaracteristic in contrast to theChintapooity country of Kamthis ; butt further reason for my thus lirffiting the area of the Upper Gondwanas is the fact of their gn [...] Irrespective of the finding of these fossils we were quite satisfied of the series (wfth the exception of the 4beds containing fragments of stales) being different in character and appearance from the Tarcherla sandstone% At tte same time they do not resemble the Upper Gondwanas of the Godavari District elicept in the pregence of mica which mineral is frequent in the Golapilly group of.sandsto [...] Close tb Kusanpur thve:s a bossy mass of granitic gneiss staing north-east—.south-west dip north-west From hence eastward the section exhibited along the northern bank of the Mgharwli gives the best view of the rocks that can be obtained; belt owing fo the general horizontality of the beds and the lowness of the hills the total thickness exposed must be inconsiderable.