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Geology of India and Burma

1943

My warmest thanks are due to the management and staff of the press for surmounting the difficulties and successfully bringing out the book in spite of the unprecedented conditions created by the war and for the courtesy shown to me at all times. [...] The third is the Extra-peninsula the mountainous region formed of the mighty Himalayan ranges and their extensions into Baluchistan on the one hand and Burma on the other. [...] The winds blowing from the south-west as they strike the mountains of Assam are deflected nortwestward up the Ganges valley and precipitate the moiture in the foothill zone of the Himalayas up to Jammu. [...] Peninsular India.—The chief mountain systems of the Peninsula are the Eastern and Western Ghats the Sapura and the Vindhya mountains and the Assam ranges. [...] In the western portion they are composed mainly of the Deccan trap ;. further east they comprise in succession the Mahadeva or Pachmarhi hills of Gondwana formations the Maikal range of the Amarkantak area of Deccan traps and Archaeans and the hills of Sirguja Ranchi Hazaribagh and Monghyr.
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Pages
543
Published in
India
SARF Document ID
sarf.142690
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Preface
i-xvi M.S. Krishnan view
Chapter I. Introduction and Physical Geology
1-40 unknown view
Chapter II. Structure and Tectonics of India
41-74 unknown view
Chapter III. General Review of Indian Stratigraphy
75-86 unknown view
Chapter IV. The Archaean Group—Peninsula
87-136 unknown view
Chapter V. The Archaean Group—Extra-Peninsula
137-146 unknown view
Chapter VI. Mineral Riches of the Archaeans
147-160 unknown view
Chapter VII. The Cuddapah (Kadapa) System
161-174 unknown view
Chapter VIII. The Vindhyan System
175-186 unknown view
Chapter IX. The Palaeozoic Group: Cambrian to Carboniferous
187-225 unknown view
Chapter X. The Gondwana System
226-279 unknown view
Chapter XI. Upper Carboniferous & Permian Systems
280-307 unknown view
Chapter XII. The Triassic System
308-342 unknown view
Chapter XIII. The Jurassic System
343-363 unknown view
Chapter XIV. The Cretaceous System
364-392 unknown view
Chapter XV. The Deccan Traps
393-412 unknown view
Chapter XVI. The Tertiary Group
413-424 unknown view
Chapter XVII. The Eocene System
425-449 unknown view
Chapter XVIII. Oligocene and Lower Miocene Systems
450-465 unknown view
Chapter XIX. Middle Miocene to Lower Pleistocene
466-479 unknown view
Chapter XX. The Pleistocene System
480-508 unknown view
Index
509-518 unknown view

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