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Records of the Geological Survey of India February 1877

1877

in the character of the asiociated rocks the relation of these measure's to the nummulitic coal of the Khasia hips could not bestablished without a cotinuous sursity of the interveningground but the intimate connection of the Assam measures withvverlying.deposits of Siwalikttype suggests that they may be on a higher horizon. [...] For the first time since the institution of the Surrey the annual report has to record the retireme4 upon pension of any of the staff. [...] It is evident that the original surface of the country can have been no Melee than the bottom of the lake: whit% is a!atepth of many feet below the channel of flee NA-1'ra itself beneath the 4eneral level of the Indus alluvium. [...] l'14.1e edge of the sandstone may mark the limit of the old gstuary and hence the brackisl.giess of the water to the westward. [...] Who: laige hills to the south-east in the direction of Jallor are prtbably of the same rock which may extend as far as the Arvari rasge! North of the Lani river near Jasol a somewhat depressed plain in the neighbourhood of the town of PUnchbhadra has long been the seat of an extensive manufacture of salt The tract is Much covered with sand rbut is lower than the surrounding country and may
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Pages
55
Published in
India
SARF Document ID
sarf.120013
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Records of the Geological survey ‘of’ India
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