 | Earth sciences - 1913 - 690 pages
...exclusively of land or fresh-water organisms, made this view untenable ; and in time it came to be realized that the deposits themselves bear out the same opinion...Tertiary times the sea has been excluded from the Sub-Himalayan region, and that the whole of the Sub-Himalayan deposits, above the Subathu group, are... | |
 | Science - 1913 - 1420 pages
...at the margin of the plains, just like the Siwalik conglomerates; and the thick sandstones and sandv clays of the Tertiary series are of just the same...this character alternate with the upper beds of the Subiithii group ; so it seems probable that from early Tertiary times the sea has been excluded from... | |
 | Geological Survey of India - Geology - 1883 - 386 pages
...they were probably deposited by rivers, running in the same courses as at present, \vhich are still " engaged in laying down great banks of shingle at the...and composition as the actual deposits of the great " Beds of this character alternate with the upper beds of the Subathu group ; so it seems probable... | |
 | Geological Society of America - Geology - 1912 - 898 pages
...at the margin of the plains, just like the Siwalik conglomerates; and the thick sandstones and sandj clays of the Tertiary series are of just the same type of form and comitosition as the actual deposits of the great rivers. "Reds of this character alternate with the... | |
 | Amadeus William Grabau - Geology - 1913 - 1234 pages
...exclusively, and they, as well as the nature of the deposit, point the continental origin of this formation. "The mountain torrents are now in many cases engaged...composition as the actual deposits of the great rivers." (Medlicott and Blanford.) In the Salt Range of the Punjab these alternating gray and greenish sandstones... | |
 | Earth sciences - 1913 - 716 pages
...like the Siwalik conglomerates; and the thick sandstones and sandy clays of the Tertiary series arc of just the same type of form and composition as the...Tertiary times the sea has been excluded from the Sub-Himalayan region, and that the whole of the Sub-Himalayan deposits, above the Subathu group, are... | |
 | 中国地质学会 (Beijing, China) - Geology - 1924 - 846 pages
...and they, as well as the nature of the deposit, point to the continental origin of this formation. "The mountain torrents are now in many cases engaged...composition as the actual deposits of the great rivers." (Medlicott & Blandford). A feature of some significance in the petrology of the Siwalik formations,... | |
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The continued experience that the fossil remains in these Tertiary strata are exclusively of land or fresh-water organisms, made this view untenable ; and in time it came to be realized that the deposits themselves bear out the same opinion ; the mountain... 