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Memoirs of the Geological Survey of India

1873

The members of the lateritic seriesillecupy the greater part of the surface of the higher tracts of land between the Laterite. [...] 11 An al:Street of the contents of the present Tort was published in the first numbet of the Records of the Geological Survey of India for 18704 under the title of Notes on the geology of the neighbourhood of Madras by R. Bruce Foote Esq. [...] Between Sadras and the village of Pertunbankuin (two and half miles west of Sadras) the clay is of dargreyish black color and near the bank of a deep but narrow branch of the river shows the characters of etrue regur or cotton soil% The deecriptiOn of the allujium cif the Pal& river applies equally Alltiorinm of tie gold well to that of the old Paler valley through the ar. [...] The junction line of the coarse fluvial sands and the fine marine sand trends norteastward as far as the great tank at Ayapakkam (Ayappalicum of the map) which village stands on a bank of the coarse sand raised 10 or 12 feet above the general levol of the alluvial plain and abutting against the slope of the lateritic formations. [...] The appearance of the laterite-spread at and north of the Red Hills recalled to mind ;ay vividly the laborite occurring at Vellum in the Tanjore District the uncovered beds prlsenting on the surface the appearance of low'reefs of rock on a coast.
agriculture environment
Pages
133
Published in
India
SARF Document ID
sarf.100011
Segment Pages Author Actions
Frontmatter
1-4 Thomas Oldham view
Chapter II.—Previous Observers and Publications
5-11 unknown view
Chapter III—Sub-Aerial Formations
12-14 unknown view
Chapter IV.—The Marine Estuarine and Fluviatile Alluvia
15-26 unknown view
Chapter V—The Lateritic Formations
27-58 unknown view
Chapter VI.—The Guddalore Series
59-60 unknown view
Chapter VII.—Cretaceous Rocks
61-62 unknown view
Chapter VIII.—Juaessic Rocks
63-124 unknown view
Chapter IX.—Sub-Metamorphic Rocks
125-125 unknown view
Chapter X.—Metamorphic Rocks
126-132 unknown view
Backmatter
i-i unknown view

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