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Memoirs of the Geological Survey of India

1869

SECTION 5.—Country around Baitool with the upper Taptee valley from the eastern boundary of the map to Boorhanpoor and from the dividing range south of the Nerbudda to the plains of the Poorna in Berar including the Gawilgurh hills.—Area included.—Rocks—Topography and geology of map only approximate—Country near Baitool—Plain of Baitool—Trap hills south of Baitool—Inter-trappeans—Dip of traps [...] Politically this region consists—in the east of portions of the Bhopal Dhar and Indore States to the north of the Nerbudda; of part of Hoshungabad district nearly the whole of Baitool and a portion of Mem. [...] In the next year the north-west of the map now published was surveyed from Bagh to Oodipoor and in 1865-66 besides some traverses across the trap area of the Deccan the whole of East and West Berar Baitool and the greater portion of Nimar were added to the area examined In compiling the present report use has been made of the labors of Messrs. [...] [PART I. of Arabia in the Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London (a). In this the exact position of the Bagh beds in the cretaceous series is shown to be nearly that of the upper greensand of Europe the fossils being in nearly every case identical. [...] of that part of the country." He refers chiefly to the rocks occurring in the immediate neighbourhooof Napoor but some of the specimens described came from Chindwara and in connection with them reference is made to the extension of granitic rocks to Baitool and of the trap beyond Baitool in the Asseergurh and Gawilgurh hills.
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Pages
240
Published in
India
SARF Document ID
sarf.100011
Segment Pages Author Actions
Frontmatter
i-xiv Thomas Oldham view
Part I. Geology of the Country Generally Considered
1-76 Thomas Oldham view
Part II. Detailed Descriptions
77-214 Thomas Oldham view
Part III. Economic Geology
215-220 Thomas Oldham view
Appendix
221-222 Thomas Oldham view

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