Records of the Geological Survey of India, Volume 53, Parts 1-2Government of India, 1921 - Geology Includes the "Annual report of the Geological Survey of India," 1867- |
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Abariq antecurrent anteriorly antimony Badamu Bampur birmanica body-whorl boulders Burma Burmese C. S. Fox calcite Captain Palmer circumsutural rim clay coal concavity Conch conglomerate Conus convex Cossmann Dalabe Deccan Trap deposits district Eastern Persia elongate Eocene feet Fermor formation fossil genus Geol Geological Survey Gondwana height hill Hippuritic limestone Jabalpur Journ Jubbulpore Jurassic Karikal Karman Kyaungon Lameta beds limestone Lithoconus Madhan Madhan Slates Martin Mekran miles mineral Mitan Mong Mong Kung Moulmein Myaukmigon narrow Noetling oblique occurs outcrops outer lip Persia Pleurotoma posterior probably protoconch quartz Ravar ribs river rocks salt sandstones shales shell Simla sinus band species specimens spiral ornaments spiral threads spire spire-whorls stibnite Superintendent Surcula surface Surv Survey of India suture Tavoy Tele Chaung Tertiary of Karikal Thabyu Thanga thickness Tinkale Tittabwe unconformably Upper Cretaceous Upper Tertiary village W. T. Blanford whorls zone
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Page 131 - A study of the numerous forms of Conus which occur in the Indian Tertiary, clearly reveals the want of sharpness between the various subdivisions of this genus, which all grade into one another so completely that they can only be regarded at most as sections. They never seem sufficiently sharply contrasted to rank as subgenera.
Page 30 - of the Voblapur area with notes on Traverse and Revision work done during the field season of 1916-17.
Page 12 - Chrysotile asbestos was observed by Captain Palmer in association with a dolerite dyke on the Shali Ridge north of Simla, the fibres reaching
Page 150 - I went first to a hill within sight of my house in 1828, and searched exactly between the plateau of basalt that covered it and the stratum immediately below, and there I found several small trees with roots, trunks and branches, all entire and beautifully petrified. They had been only recently uncovered by the washing away of a part of the basaltic plateau. I soon after found some fossil bones of animals.
Page 30 - The Geology of the Western Ghats between Agumbe Ghat and Gersoppa Falls. Rec.
Page 51 - GE Pilgrim, The Geology of the Persian Gulf and adjoining portions of Persia
Page 5 - Services placed temporarily at the disposal of the Government of India in the Finance Department
Page 152 - On the systematic position of the Upper Cretaceous Dinosaur Titanosaurus. Geol. Mag.,
Page 81 - Comparative Diagnoses of Conidae and Cancellariidae from the Tertiary Formations of Burma.