Memoirs of the Geological Survey of India

At the commencement of the examination of Kutch, attention was directed to two principal points,—the importance of discovering the true relations of the terrestrial plant-bearing to the marine fossiliferous beds of the jurassic rocks; and, the investigation of an unconformity supposed to separate the tertiary formation of Western India into two distinct groups. [...] By a somewhat bold theory, the evolution' of Kattiwar, Kutch and the Runn is attributed to, the accumulation of the deposits of the Nerbudda, Taptee, Sanbermuttee and Indus, by ocean currents, assisted by volcanic action of elevation ; and the calculation of the Venerable Archdeacon Pratt, that the attraction of the Himalayas raises the level of the ocean along the western coast of India gradually [...] connected with the recent geolbgical changes in Kutch are—a memorandum by the Superintendent of the Geological Survey, pointing out, the importance of and distinction between the various actions mentioned in the article and making suggestions as to the methods of ascertaining whether the land on this part of the Indian Coast was rising or sinking—together with the memorandum on the subject communi [...] which the northern, narrower and more lofty, is called the Charwar range, and the other, the Dora hills, passes westward from Anjar to beyond the centre of the province, whence it sends off a chain* to the north-west carrying on the water shed of the country from the Charwar range and terminating in a broad cluster of large but not lofty elevations south of Lukput, at the western end of the state. [...] Owing to the absence of jungle and the rapidity with which the rocks of this country yield, each in its own peculiar manner, to the action of the atmosphere, the broad relations between the form of the.