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... exposed without any trace of the Sausars . In the basin of the earliest deposition due to uplift and erosion , not only the rocks of the later epochs have been eroded away but the sediments of the earliest epochs have been exposed in ...
... exposed without any trace of the Sausars . In the basin of the earliest deposition due to uplift and erosion , not only the rocks of the later epochs have been eroded away but the sediments of the earliest epochs have been exposed in ...
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... exposed in western Rajasthan away from the Aravalli ranges . These beds appear to have been deposited in an isolated basin of no great extent . They are exposed both in Jodhpur and Bikaner districts . 2. South India 2. 1 Kurnool System ...
... exposed in western Rajasthan away from the Aravalli ranges . These beds appear to have been deposited in an isolated basin of no great extent . They are exposed both in Jodhpur and Bikaner districts . 2. South India 2. 1 Kurnool System ...
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... exposed . These beds rest over a basal zone of laterite and are composed of grey and green pyritous and carbonaceous shales and Nummulitic limes- tones measuring 600 feet . The shales contain thin coal seams and the limestone contains ...
... exposed . These beds rest over a basal zone of laterite and are composed of grey and green pyritous and carbonaceous shales and Nummulitic limes- tones measuring 600 feet . The shales contain thin coal seams and the limestone contains ...
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Ajabgarh Aravalli Archaean Assam Assilina Baluchistan bands Barail basal basin Belemnites Bhander Boulder Bed Brachiopods calcareous Cambrian carbonaceous Carboniferous Cephalopods Charnockites clays coal seams colour conglomerates consists corals Cretaceous Cuddapah Cuddapah system deposits developed Devonian Dharwar district dolomitic east Eastern Ghats Eocene exposed facies fauna feet thick Fenestella ferruginous Flysch folding foliated formations fossils Gastropods geosyncline gneiss Gondwana granite greenish grey Hazara hills Himalayas igneous India indicating intercalated intrusion Iron-ore series Jurassic Kashmir Kirthar Kumaon Kutch Laki Lamellibranchs layers limestone limestone and shales Lower Cretaceous Madhya Pradesh marine marls metamorphism MICHIGAN LIBRARIES Middle miles Miocene Nummulites oolite Ordovician Orissa orogenic outcrops overlain overlying Panjal Peninsular Permian phyllites plateau Productus purple quartzites Rajasthan Ranikot region rocks Salt Range sandstone Sausar schists sediments shales Silurian Siwalik slates Spirifer Spiti valley stage succession syncline TABLE Tertiary Tethys thin Trias Triassic unconformity unfossiliferous Upper Cretaceous Vindhyan volcanic western zone