Records of the Geological Survey of IndiaThe Survey, 1878 - Earthquakes Vols. 1- include Report of the Geological Survey, 1867- ; v. 32- include Review of the mineral production of India, 1898/1903- ; v. 75 consists of Professional papers, no. 1-16; v. 76 consists of Bulletins of economic minerals. |
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Page 205 - The hills here are also intersected by ravines, and in one spot an extensive basin * hollow is formed at some height, which contains muddy pools in a constant state of activity, throwing out, with more or less force, white mud mixed with petroleum. This is, indeed, a strange looking place, and I am told by the Singphos that at times there is an internal noise as of distant thunder, when it bursts forth suddenly with a loud report, and then for a time subsides.
Page 138 - So far, then, the question about the age of some of the Australian coal must be considered as settled ; and if, as in Illawarra, the coal beds overlie the marine beds, as they do also in the Fingal district of Tasmania, it would appear that all these separate occurrences belong to one thick series, in which marine beds and fresh-water beds interpolate each other.
Page 188 - ... he had gone thither that year, and experienced at that place the violent earthquake which accompanied the elevation. From other natives of great age, I received information of the occurrence, not direct, but traditionally from their parents. The earthquake was very violent, the sea washed to and for several times with great fury, and then retired from the grounds, leaving an immense quantity of fish ; the feasting on which is a favorite story throughout the Island ; no lives were lost, no rents...
Page 187 - Island of moderate height, and irregular outline. A band of level plain, but little raised above the sea, extends around its coasts, of far greater width on the East than on the West ; within this lies, irregular, low, undulating No.
Page 202 - ... to have spread and flattened out with their own weight, upon the discontinuance of the action that formed them. Out of some of the cones the steam rushes in a continuous stream, with a roaring or whizzing sound, as the orifices vary in diameter or the jets differ in velocity. In others the action is intermittent, and each recurring rush of steam is accompanied by a discharge of a shower of hot mud, masses of which are thrown sometimes to the height of a hundred feet. These discharges take place...
Page 194 - ... scoriae which originally enclosed the dyke, and through which the lava forced its way, have been washed out by rains; and the dyke stands clear, showing the way in which the lava composing it, when liquid, overflowed the lip of the vent and took its course down the outer slopes*. § 6. A stream of lava while flowing down any slope will, owing to its imperfect fluidity, usually be thickest towards its centre, and consequently possess a convex cross section on its upper surface, the sides rising...
Page 196 - Kock," (names will be seen in the chart,) about the size of the sand bank called False Island. "We saw the newly-formed Island for a month, but could not approach it on account of the boisterous sea on the coast. We felt an earthquake before we saw the fire in the sea; in the month of October we came out in our boats, to look for the Island, but saw nothing. The rocks, as they now lay, are of the same number and position as before the appearance of the new Island. "We did not feel the earthquake...
Page 297 - A Guide to the Exhibition Rooms of the Departments of Natural History and Antiquities was published — it was the first guide since Vaux's Handbook — there were departments of Oriental Antiquities, Greek and Roman Antiquities, Coins and Medals, and "British and Mediaeval Antiquities and Ethnography".
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Page 143 - Frond simple (?)y broadly linear, costa somewhat thick, veins leaving at an acute angle, then passing out at right angles to the margin, once or twice dichotomously divided.