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Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal 1853

1854

Owing to the rapid disintegration of the shales in the cliffs the limestone becomes undermined and huge masses of the rock thus become detached and strew with their debris the steep sides of the hills. [...] Since writing the above we have had the pleasure of perusing the anniversary address for 1852 of the President* of the Royal Geographical Society in which it is stated on the authority of Professor Oldham that ' the coal and iron of the district of Cheer& Punjee or the range of hills which separates Assam and the Beramputer from the plains of Sylbet belong to the nummulite tertiary formation [...] By continuing the washing with a gentle stream of water the lighter particles of the sand are carried down the inclined floor of the cradle and escape with the water while the heavier and auriferous sand assumes the highest level next to the point where the water is applied. [...] From the similarity of the central hilly districts of the gold fields of Australia with the auriferous districts of the Ural mountains Sir Roderick Murchison so early as the year 1844 predicted the existence of gold fields and in 1846 he addressed the President of the Geological Society of Cornwall on the subject and recommended any Cornish tin-miners who were unemployed to emigrate to New Sou [...] At this depth the influence of tides could not produce the ripple markings observed in the Devonian sandstones and we must therefore infer that previous to the deposition of the carboniferous strata the former must have undergone a gradual subsidence to an extent sufficient to admit of the deposition of the latter the strata of which must have rapidly increased in thickness so as to have had
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Pages
107
Published in
India
SARF Document ID
sarf.120250
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