A Manual of the Geology of India: Chiefly Compiled from the Observations of the Geological Survey

Geological survey office, 1893 - Geology - 543 pages

Radiating basaltic columns in a dyke near Gújri northwest of Maheswar	1

Intertrappean fossils	6

hills of eastern frontier and Burma Salt range and Assam Hills Drainage system	19

Burma Ramri and Cheduba 20 ignition of marsh gas by lightning 21 Assam Balúch	23

or Bundelkhand gneiss leading characters and distribution newer or banded gneiss	25

generally massive schistose gneisses in southern portion of area 26 absence	32

Nellore Carnatic massive gaeisses schistose gneisses 33 Bezwáda gneiss containing	39

plates	45

Cardita beaumonti Darch et Haime	258

marshes 273 Origin of the traps characteristics of subaqueous eruptions absence	276

beds distribution of dykes 277 Rájpipla hills supposed vents in the Konkan trachytic	283

lated exposures of lower cretaceous rocks 285 Cutch Chicháli pass Hazára Cretaceous	290

Turkistán section Central Himálayas Chikkim series 254 Thibet Assam Khási hills	297

trap classification 320 subnummulitic group gypseous shales nummulitic limestone	322

19	327

Kathiáwár eocene outcrops miocene beds upper tertiaries of Perim island323 Mammalian	330

Distribution and composition of ancient trap dykes in Southern India Arávalli range	46

in Nellore 50 possible confusion with disturbed Cuddapahs Bijáwar system uncon	53

Transition rocks of Behar hills disturbance 57 distinctness of boundary metamor	71

CHAPTER IV	77

CHAPTER V	109

stratification salt and gypsum deposits impurities of the salt gypsum beds 110 sup	118

fragments derived from the south facetted pebbles 120 Australian fauna upper carboni	133

Krol or Boileaugunj quartzites felspathic grits of western Garhwal Upper carbonaceous	139

Fig 17	140

Karakoram range Syringosphaera beds 140 Afghánistán and Suláimán range Supposed	145

atile origin 150 possible lacustrine origin of the Talchir group relations to older and newer	168

description and flora Mångli beds 169 fossils Almod group Pánchet group 170	170

other exposures of Mahadeva rocks Dubrajpur group 174 Rájmahál series volcanic	177

basin 178 Ellore area subdivisions flora of the Golapilli group 179 Ragavapuram	189

Heterogeneous character of the floras difficulty of determining relationship of fossil plants	214

group general description 223 palæontological contradiction between flora and fauna	224

group or Kuchri ammonite bed Salt range connection in Cutch jurassics 228 Himá	230

group general description 233 coral reefs littoral character of upper beds derivation	242

21	245

cretaceous fauna 247 fornter continuity of coast line Western India Bagh beds	248

stone 249 fauna of the groups 250 correlation cenomanian age contrast to fauna	254

Assam 331 probable eocene age Upper tertiaries Gáro hills marine beds 332 disturb	344

classification Sirmur series Subáthu group 349 ferruginous bottom bed relation	362

CHAPTER XV	369

of ascertaining detrital or nondetrital origin of laterite Distribution of high level late	381

of Bundelkhand laterite 382 former continuity high level laterite of Bundelkhand	388

stones extent 392 fossil wood age and origin 393 Warkalli beds possibly tertiary 394	394

Miliolite of Káthiáwár Cave deposits 395 Alluvial deposits valley plains of Narbadá	400

Kistna alluvium 402 fossils and flint implements diamond gravels East Coast allu	409

Fig 6	417

of the Indus 416 disturbed subrecent beds gravel fans the Karez 417 loess pseudo	421

Fig 4	423

CHAPTER XVII	427

Upper India 429 probable recent presence of sea in Sind 430 older and newer allu	438

Alluvium of the Brahmaputra in Assam 434 Delta of the Ganges and Brahmaputra	452

Fig 23	456

Other tracts of sandhills 458	458

Sandhills of the longitudinal type after the Sind Revenue Survey	468

tain chains of the northwest termination 460 main range probably an aggregate	469

encroachment of hills on area of deposition 471 Fishers theory of mountain formation	477

absence of conglomerates in lower Siwáliks 478 tertiary age of the Himálayas evidence	489

Title	A Manual of the Geology of India: Chiefly Compiled from the Observations of the Geological Survey
Authors	Geological Survey of India, Henry Benedict Medlicott, William Thomas Blanford, Richard Dixon Oldham
Editor	Richard Dixon Oldham
Compiled by	Henry Benedict Medlicott, William Thomas Blanford
Edition	2
Publisher	Geological survey office, 1893
Original from	the University of California
Digitized	27 Sep 2008
Length	543 pages

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