Thursday, April 14, 2011

Intertrappean Beds New Site Located
































































































Prof.M.S.Katti and Prof.S.G.More of SP College, Madgaon had visited our department on Bench Marking Programme for three days (12th to 14th April 2011). As a part of this visit, today morning, we visited a DVP & Proterozoic formations (about 0.4 km from Deshnur Cross on Belgaum-Bagalkot road, circled area shown in Google Earth image ), guided by Prof.Katti. This is a new site of Intertrappean beds with shell fragments of lamellibranch, micro-gastropod shell and other unidentified shell fragments. The trap bed is mainly a Grit with rounded-well rounded grains (fluvial/channel deposit). The rock shows cross bedding too. The preliminary report has been communicated to CS.