Prehistory and Protohistory in India and Pakistan c7.s17.18

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From every point of view—thickness, general appearance and details of constitution—this section appears to be identical with or comparable to the one described and illustrated photographically by Todd. However, a careful scrutiny first by three of us, then by Dr. SUBBARAO and Shri MALIK, and then by all of us in the company of Professor ZEUNER showed that the section did not reveal three different formations as described by TODD, but it was essentially one deposit. Essentially it consists of a rubble gravel with occasional large boulders or pebbles of basalt (formed not necessarily by fluviatile action, but by spheroidal weathering) laid in a matrix of sandy clay over the basal rock, which at places has weathered into a clayey layer. Thus we find from bottom upwards rock, clay, rubble gravel with sandy partings at places, and the top few inches of dark clay (humus).