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Memoirs of the Geological Survey of India

1872

of the left bank of the Kistnah river having its western edge near the junction of the Toongabudra with that river or near the town of Kurnool and its eastern edge some thirty-four miles west of Guntoor. [...] He gives a very tolerably accurate description of the diamond-bearing beds in these localities and of the nature of the matrix of the diamond but does not bind himself to any views regarding the geological age of the rocks. [...] "8rd.—That the diamonds found at presentin the beds of the rivers are washed down by the annual rains." We now come to the earlier writings of Captain Newbold of the Madras Army the first of which is " A glance at Capt. [...] On the eastern side and to the south are the plains of Nellore and Madras with their ribbed and peaked ridges and hills*; while on the western side there is the rugged upland country with its tors " and more or less rounded and angular groups of hills of Bellary and the Cuddapah sub-divisions leading up to the Mysore plateau all of which are forms characteristic of a country of crystalline rocks. [...] To the east-south-east of Cuddapah the central hollow of the country is connected with the chain of minor valleys extending south-south-east to the southern extremity of the field by a narrow neck The Ontimitta valley.
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Pages
368
Published in
India
SARF Document ID
sarf.100011
Segment Pages Author Actions
Introductory Notice
i-xiv Thomas Oldham view
Part I
1-41 unknown view
Part II
42-123 unknown view
Part III
124-258 unknown view
Part IV
259-320 unknown view
The Itkhuri Cold-Field by Theo W. H. Hughes F. G. S. Associate Royal School of Mines Geological Survay of India
321-i unknown view
The Daltonganj Cold-Field by Theo W H. Hughes F. G. S. Associate Royal School of Mines
325-346 unknown view

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