GEOLOGY OF THE AREA SOUTH WEST OF GWALIOR CITY, MADHYA PRADESH

Abstract

An area of about 100 sq. kmo , bounded between latitudes 26°?' and 26°15 ' and longitudes 7?°58' and 78°11/ around Gwalior city, . Madhya Pradesh# , in the survey of India la50,Q0© topogra. phic sheets with numbers 5'1f fr and 5f qy form the locate of the present study* In a series of isolated hillocks, the out.. crops of Owaltor and upper Vindhyan Groups are exposed.. Except for a few exposures of traps y the outcrops In most of the area display the sedimentary rocks belonging to the Owulior or upper Vindhyan Groups, . The present study, . therefore, . is almost con.. fined to these sedimentary rocks for establishing the environ-ments of deposition$ dispersal pattern and provenance of the sediments.....