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Memoirs of The Geological Survey of India

1951

They comprise the Ghats of the Northern Circars composed of charnockites and khondalities the quartzite and shale ridges of the border of Nellore and Cuddapah districts (forming the Velikodas Nallamalais and Palkondas) and the hills of charnockites and Dharwarian rocks in Arcot and Salem (the Javadi Hills Kalrayan Hills Shevaroys. [...] The total rainfall in the region to the west of the crest of the Western Ghats is of the order of 100 inches per annum. [...] Only the Ariyalur Stage is developed in the Vriddhachalam and the Pondicherry areas the three areas being separated from eacb other by the alluvia of the Vellar and the Ponnaiyar. [...] Parts of the deltas of the larger rivers and the older alluvia must have been formed during the Pleistocene and the sub-Recent times. [...] Special mention may be made of the slates from the Cumbum Slates ' worked near Markapur the Narji limestones and marbles worked in the Palnad area of Guntur and the Cuddapah slabs of the Jammalamadugu and Kundair formations in the Cuddapah and Kurnool districts.
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Pages
315
Published in
India
SARF Document ID
sarf.100011
Segment Pages Author Actions
Preface
i-vi M.S. Krishnan view
Memoirs of the Geological Survey of India
1-299 M.S. Krishnan view
Index
i-ix unknown view
Geological Survey of India
x-x unknown view

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