Records of the Geological Survey of India, Volume 55The Survey, 1924 - Earthquakes Vols. 1- include Report of the Geological Survey, 1867- ; v. 32- include Review of the mineral production of India, 1898/1903- ; v. 75 consists of Professional papers, no. 1-16; v. 76 consists of Bulletins of economic minerals. |
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Page 247 - Oldham in the second edition of the Manual of the Geology of India) and
Page 291 - there appears to be a good supply of shale of a rich or fair average quality, so much in fact that it would be possible to obtain large quantities
Page 248 - in the Machipur Pargana, where volcanic phenomena are observed in a shallow hollow formed between banks of clay and sand. In certain years vapours issue here from fissures
Page 7 - was granted leave on average pay for one month with effect from the
Page 97 - no evidence as to the age of the beds in which they occur,
Page 277 - lamellibranchs, but the state of preservation was so poor that it was uncertain whether they belonged to Pecten or to Lima.
Page 280 - that the craggy profiles and steep conical hillocks of the former are due in large measure to a pre-Jurassic denudation, which, after having been concealed during the Cretaceous and Tertiary periods by covering deposits of Jurassic Red Sandstone, is again becoming partially revealed in recent times by the continued denudation of this
Page 31 - series. The basal purple conglomeratic sandstone, for a distance of about ten feet from the granite, has been altered by contact metamorphism to a hard, pale grey or almost colourless rock, and in parts some of the conglomeratic sandstone has been absorbed by the granite.
Page 48 - Notes on the occurrence of Graphite and other Economic Minerals near Mavinhalli, Mysore District.
Page 248 - or in' the language of the villagers Suyam, is the name of a spot, situated half a mile to the