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... Northern Orissa The area is covered with sedimentary , effusive and igneous rocks . The sedimentaries show rocks of two grades of metamorphism on either side of a thrust plane which commences at Porahat in western Singhbhum district and ...
... Northern Orissa The area is covered with sedimentary , effusive and igneous rocks . The sedimentaries show rocks of two grades of metamorphism on either side of a thrust plane which commences at Porahat in western Singhbhum district and ...
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... Northern India . One of the areas occupies the whole of the Kundair valley and stretches beyond the Kristna . The other area lies in the Palnad Area of Andhra . ( The northern THE VINDHYAN SYSTEM 81.
... Northern India . One of the areas occupies the whole of the Kundair valley and stretches beyond the Kristna . The other area lies in the Palnad Area of Andhra . ( The northern THE VINDHYAN SYSTEM 81.
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... Northern Alps . The radiolarian cherts and the globigerina shales are deep water facies around emergent cordilleras . The Upper Flysch commenced in Turonian and continued to Senonian . 1. 4. Kashmir Upper Cretaceous limestone containing ...
... Northern Alps . The radiolarian cherts and the globigerina shales are deep water facies around emergent cordilleras . The Upper Flysch commenced in Turonian and continued to Senonian . 1. 4. Kashmir Upper Cretaceous limestone containing ...
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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