SITARU CALCAREOUS TUFA

Herbert Daniel Gebauer - 06/01/2018

On a route from Nerinja-petta (note 1) above the orographically right (locally western) bank of the Cavery (Cauvery, Kaveri River) generally south towards Bhavani (note 2) or Bhawáni-kundal, called in our maps Boviny Coral. The country on the right of the Cavery is free from hills, except one conical mountain, which rises from the bank of the river near Bhawani. The soil in general is stony, or sandy … The strata run north and south, and are much intermixed with calcarious [sic! calcareous] matter, that has diffused itself among them while it was in a fluid state. It is chiefly found near rivulets and torrents. On the banks of the Sitaru I observed [on 15th October 1800] it under an extensive stratum of white quartz; but I do not think it can be from thence inferred, that the quartz is of so recent a formation as the calcarious tufa. It may have been undermined by the rivulet, and the calcarious matter afterwards deposited under it, so as to fill up the empty space (BUCHAN, F 1807, 2.x: 199-200).x: 199-200).