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Memoirs of the Geological Survey of India

1878

The imperfection of the ratter plan is manifest ; because in the first place the sounds of the voels especia1131; in English are variable and incapable in many cases of representing those of Oriental languages ; and secondly the representation of the true names by supposed equivalents is arbitrary depending chiefly on the 'ear often very imperfectly trained of the transcriber. [...] So great have been the strides made in our knowledge of Indian Geology in the last fifteen years that it has been found possible to entirely change the arrangement of the book and to adopt the more scientific and' orderly course of describing the rocks in chronological t5rder instead of breaking the book up into a series of descriptions of separate districts. [...] For the rest the remarks in the preface to the first edition relative.to the geographical basis of the Geologicail Map of India and the spelling of place names still hold good. [...] Delta of the Ganges and Brahmaputra windings of rivers (4 :0) backwardness of eastern delta change of course of the Brahmaputra (441) swatch df no ground.' The Madhupur jungle (442) age of the Ganges delta former continuity of Gangetic and Punjab rivers (443) Alluvium of Upper India (444) cause of distinction bettt7een bhangar and klidiar (i.45) course gf the (ianges (446) changes of lev [...] Alluvium of the Punjab; lost river of the Indian desert (449) former independent course of the Sutlej the Saraswati of the Vedas (45o); recent origin of the Khadar.
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Pages
583
Published in
India
SARF Document ID
sarf.100011
Segment Pages Author Actions
Prefatory Notice
i-xxiii unknown view
Chapter I physical geography
1-22 unknown view
Chapter II Metamorpiiic and crystalline rocks
23-46 unknown view
Chapter III transition systems
47-76 unknown view
Chapter IV older paleozoic (cuddapah and vindiiyan)system of the Peninsula
77-108 unknown view
Chapter V Older Paleozoic System of the Extra Peninsuler Area
109-118 unknown view
Chapter VI Carboniferous and triassic rocks of xtra-Peninslar ndia
119-148 unknown view
Chapter VII the gondwana system
149-v unknown view
Chapter VIII homotaxis of the gondwana system
191-214 unknown view
Chapter IX Marine jrassic rocks
215-230 unknown view
Chapter X Marine Cretaceous Rocks of the Indian Peninsula
231-254 unknown view
Chapter XI Deccan trap
255-284 unknown view
Chapter XII Cretaceous rocks oF the extra peninsular area
285-298 unknown view
Chapter XIII Tertiany deposits(excluding those of the Himalayas)
299-344 unknown view
Chapter XIV Tertiaries the himalayas (inclding the North-Western Punjab)
345-368 unknown view
Chapter XV Laterite
369-390 unknown view
Chapter XVI Pleistocene and recent deposits (exclusive of the Indo-Gangetic alluvium)
391-426 unknown view
Chapter XVII the indo-gangetlc plain
427-i unknown view
Chapter XVIII The Age and Origin of the Himalayas
459-489 unknown view
Chapter XIX Geological History of the Indian Peninsula
490-496 unknown view
Geographical Index of indian localities
497-528 unknown view
Index of Subjects
529-542 unknown view

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