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Memoirs of the Geological Survey of India.The Geological Features of the South Mahratta Country and Adjacent Districts

1876

The Belgaum Collectorate, which encloses detached portions of the Sangli and Kurundwid States, together with the southern' part of the Kolhapur State, occupies the area westward to the edge. of the Ghats, below which the State of Sawantwari and the southern part of the Ratnagiri Collectorate extend to the sea. [...] The principal afiluents of the Krishna, which occur wholly or partly within the limits of the country under consideration, are the Dudh and Ved (Yed) Gaugas, the Gliiitprablt, the Malprabha and the Tungibhadra on the right bank, and the Don and Bhima Rivers on the left. [...] The principal of these are the ridge dividing the valleys of the Bogavati and Dudh Ganga and the Dudh and Ved Ganga Rivers in the Kolhapu; State, and the great ridge stretching from the south side of the Amboli Ghat north- eastward to the well-known Hill-fort of Samingarh, and dividing the upper valley of the Ghatprabha from that of its principal affluent, the Harankishi (Hurruncassi) River. [...] From the crest of the cataract to tRe pool beneath, the measure by level of the descent is 408 feet in about a quarter of a milt, and, as I have before attempted to describe the fury of the decending mass of water, when the river is in flood, is majestic and wonderful in the extreme, but the place is so lonely, so entirely out of the way of ordinary travellers, that, except the people of the count [...] The diminution of the rainfall from the crest of the Ghats eastward is steady and well-marked; but to the eastward of . the boundary lige. , just traced, the diminution in the amount of atmospheric deposition islvery sudden, and is accompanied by a decided change in the aspect of the local flora, a change which is patent to the eye even of the botanical layman.
agriculture environment
Pages
277
Published in
India
SARF Document ID
sarf.100011
Segment Pages Author Actions
Frontmatter
1-1 R. Foote view
Chapter I Introductory
1-18 R. Foote view
Chapter II Synopsis of Previous Observations
19-36 R. Foote view
Chapter III Gneissic Rocks
37-69 R. Foote view
Chapter IV The Kaladgi Series
70-138 R. Foote view
Chapter V The Bhima (Karnul) Series
139-164 R. Foote view
Chapter VI Infra-Trappean Rock (Lameta Beds?)
165-170 R. Foote view
Chapter VII The Deccan Trap and Associated Formation
171-199 R. Foote view
Chapter VIII The Deccan Trap Iron-Clay (Laterite) Formation
200-221 R. Foote view
Chapter IX The Ratnagiri Plant Beds
222-223 R. Foote view
Chapter X Later Tertiary and Recent Alluvial Deposits
224-243 R. Foote view
Chapter XI Subaerial Formations and Soils
244-255 R. Foote view
Chapter XII Economic Geology
256-268 R. Foote view

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