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A Manual of the Geology of India Chiefly Compiled from Observations of the Geological Survey

1893

St the same time the advagtages of wider'oxperience and thotlght may not ba found an adequate nmpensation.fol want of uniformity and daccasiooal dicrepancies—t1I natural results of ctivideeauthorstii Yo secure so fp.r as possible the ospowibility of each author for the facts allot opinions stated the initials of each are affixed in the Table of Centetits to the chapters coltributed by Every [...] The imperfection of the latter plan is manifest ; because in the first place the sounds of the voels especially in English are variable and inoapable in many cases of represewing those of Oriental languages ; and secondly theirepresentation of the true names by supposed equivalents is arbitrary; depenrii4 chiefly on the earNttn very imperfittly trained of the transcriber. [...] For the.‘esOlivemaiks in'the preface to the firseedition relative to the geographical basis of the Geological Mil) of India and the spelling of placynames still InlId good: As regards the latter the Imperial Gazetteer of Italia 'has been adopted as a standard by the Government of India and the Royal Geographical Society. [...] ipisfribinion of highlevel latrite (374) laterite of Raintahai hills (375) denudation and antiquity of the high level laterite 06) distribution of Tow level laterite (1'378) drigip of laterite chemicalchaatge transference of iron oxide hypothesis of orienby alteration of 'basala (379) passage of basalt into lat'eri.!e deficiency of iron in basalt (380) absence of amygdulss laterite only [...] Delta of the Genies and Brahtriaputra; windings of rivers (OW bacrwardness of eastern delta change of course of the Bratimal3utra (440 swatch.qf no ground.' The Madhupur jungle (442) age of the Ganges delta forger continuity of Gangetic and Puniab rivers (443).
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Pages
585
Published in
India
SARF Document ID
sarf.140877
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Frontmatter
i-xxii H. B. Medlicott, W. T. Blanford view
Chapter I. Physical Geography
1-22 H. B. Medlicott, W. T. Blanford view
Chapter II. Metamorphic and Crystalline Rocks
23-46 H. B. Medlicott, W. T. Blanford view
Chapter III. Transition Systems
47-76 H. B. Medlicott, W. T. Blanford view
Chapter IV. Older Paleozoic (Cuddapah and Vindhyan) Systems of the Peninsula
77-108 H. B. Medlicott, W. T. Blanford view
Chapter V. Older Paleozoic Systems of the Extra-Peninsular Area
109-118 H. B. Medlicott, W. T. Blanford view
Chapter VI. Carboniferous and TriassiC Rocks of Extra-Peninsular India
119-148 H. B. Medlicott, W. T. Blanford view
Chapter VII. The Gondwana System
149-viii H. B. Medlicott, W. T. Blanford view
Chapter VIII. Homotaxis of the Gondwana System
191-214 H. B. Medlicott, W. T. Blanford view
Chapter IX. Marine Jurassic Rocks
215-230 H. B. Medlicott, W. T. Blanford view
Chapter X. Marine Cretaceous Rocks of the Indian Peninsula
231-254 H. B. Medlicott, W. T. Blanford view
Chapter XI. Deccan Trap
255-284 H. B. Medlicott, W. T. Blanford view
Chapter XII. Cretaceous Rocks of the Extra-Peninsular Area
285-298 H. B. Medlicott, W. T. Blanford view
Chapter XIII. Tertiary Deposits
299-344 H. B. Medlicott, W. T. Blanford view
Chapter XIV. Tertiaries of the Himalayas
345-368 H. B. Medlicott, W. T. Blanford view
Chapter XV. Laterite
369-390 H. B. Medlicott, W. T. Blanford view
Chapter XVI. Pleistocene and Recent Deposits
391-426 H. B. Medlicott, W. T. Blanford view
Chapter XVII. The Indo-Gangetic Plain
427-iv H. B. Medlicott, W. T. Blanford view
Chapter XVIII. The Age and Origin of the Himalayas
459-489 H. B. Medlicott, W. T. Blanford view
Chapter XIX. Geological History of the Indian Peninsula
490-496 H. B. Medlicott, W. T. Blanford view
Geographical Index of Indian Localities
497-528 H. B. Medlicott, W. T. Blanford view
Index of Subjects
529-542 H. B. Medlicott, W. T. Blanford view