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A Manual of the Geology of India. Chiefly compiled from the observations of the Geological Survey

1893

The imperfection of the latter plan is manifest ; because in the first place the sounds of the voels especially in English are variable and incapable in many cases of representing those of Oriental languages ; and secondly the representation of the true names by supposed equivalents is arbitrary depending chiefly on the ear often very imperfectly trained of the transcriber. [...] So great have been the strides made in our knowledge of Indian Geology in the last fifteen yeai's that it -has been-found pcissibIe to-entirely change the arrangement of the book and to adopt the more-scientific and orderly course of describing the rocks in chronological order instead of breaking the book up into a series of descriptions of separate dis.ricts as was found to be inevitable in the [...] As there is now a special volume devoted to the economic aspects of the geology of India not to mention the Dictionary of Economic Products and the Handbooks of Commerclal Products of the Imperial Institute it hasX PRE7ACE. [...] Doha of the Ganges and Brahmaputra windings of rivers (4;0' backwarclneof eastern delta change of course of the Brahmaputra (441) ' swatch of no ground.' The DIAdhupur jungle (442) age of the Ganges delta former continuity of Gangetic and Punjab livers (443)-. [...] Alluvium of the Punjab; lost river of the Indian desert (449) former independent course of the Sutlej the Saraswati of the Vedas (.15o); :secent origin of the Kluidar.
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Pages
588
Published in
India
SARF Document ID
sarf.146826
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Frontmatter
i-xxiii H.B. Medlicott, W.T. Blanford, R.D. Oldham view
Chapter I. Physical Geography
1-22 H.B. Medlicott, W.T. Blanford, R.D. Oldham view
Chapter II. Metamorphic and Crystalline Rocks
23-46 H.B. Medlicott, W.T. Blanford, R.D. Oldham view
Chapter III. Transition Systems
47-76 H.B. Medlicott, W.T. Blanford, R.D. Oldham view
Chapter IV. Older Palæozoic (Cuddapah and Vindhyan) Systems of the Peninsula
77-108 H.B. Medlicott, W.T. Blanford, R.D. Oldham view
Chapter V. Older Palæozoic Systems of the Extra-Peninsular Area
109-118 H.B. Medlicott, W.T. Blanford, R.D. Oldham view
Chapter VI. Carboniferous and Triassic Rocks of Extra-Peninsular India
119-148 H.B. Medlicott, W.T. Blanford, R.D. Oldham view
Chapter VII. The Gondwana System
149-viii H.B. Medlicott, W.T. Blanford, R.D. Oldham view
Chapter VIII. Homotaxis of the Gondwana System
191-214 H.B. Medlicott, W.T. Blanford, R.D. Oldham view
Chapter IX. Marine Jurassic Rocks
215-230 H.B. Medlicott, W.T. Blanford, R.D. Oldham view
Chapter X. Marine Cretaceous Rocks of the Indian Peninsula
231-254 H.B. Medlicott, W.T. Blanford, R.D. Oldham view
Chapter XI. Deccan Trap
255-284 H.B. Medlicott, W.T. Blanford, R.D. Oldham view
Chapter XII. Cretaceous Rocks of the Extra-Peninsular Area
285-298 H.B. Medlicott, W.T. Blanford, R.D. Oldham view
Chapter XIII. Tertiary Deposits
299-344 H.B. Medlicott, W.T. Blanford, R.D. Oldham view
Chapter XIV. Tertiaries of the Himalayas
345-368 H.B. Medlicott, W.T. Blanford, R.D. Oldham view
Chapter XV. Laterite
369-390 H.B. Medlicott, W.T. Blanford, R.D. Oldham view
Chapter XVI. Pleistocene and Recent Deposits
391-426 H.B. Medlicott, W.T. Blanford, R.D. Oldham view
Chapter XVII. The Indo-Gangetic Plain
427-i H.B. Medlicott, W.T. Blanford, R.D. Oldham view
Chapter XVIII. The age and Origin of the Himalayas
459-489 H.B. Medlicott, W.T. Blanford, R.D. Oldham view
Chapter XIX. Geological History of the Indian Peninsula
490-496 H.B. Medlicott, W.T. Blanford, R.D. Oldham view
Geographical Index of Indian Localities
497-528 H.B. Medlicott, W.T. Blanford, R.D. Oldham view
Index of Subjects
529-543 H.B. Medlicott, W.T. Blanford, R.D. Oldham view

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