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Records Of the Geological Survey of India

1874

All the streams said by the natives to be auriferous rise within the limits of the tract occupied by the Soortoor series; and the upper course of the Soorteor nullah the richest of all lies entirely within the area occupied by the pseudo-diorite and associated chloritic schists. [...] The remaining quartz reefs noticed in the auriferous tract on the east flank of the Kappatgode on the west flank of the ridge running north and north-west from the Kappagode and in the valley to the north-west of Dhoni village are all of the ordinary variety of quartz running more or less in the strike of the bedding and presenting no noteworthy peculiarity. [...] The plan pursued by the Jalgars when I let them follow their own devices was to take up the lower part of the latest flood deposit from the rocky Process of selecting wash-dirt or clayey bottom of the nullahs not from the dippest part of the bed but from the point at which a strong length of cuilent slacked off Owing to a change in the direction of the stream. [...] Fortunately the route taken by the expedition from the plains at Saki-Sarwa to the most distant point reached in the Cbamarlahg valley (about fifty miles as the crow flies) was more or less at right angles to the strike of the rock and of the principal bill ranges and thus in each day's march a section of the rocks was traversed which served to indicate the geological structure. [...] At this stage it was determined that the locality should be visited'and reported upon by an officer of the Geological Survey and the following account embodies the results of the examination:—.Votzte.—Before pAeeding to the detailed account of the rocks I shall give a short sketch of the route traversed on the road to the coal.
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40
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India
SARF Document ID
sarf.120013
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