Records of the Geological Survey of India

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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 145 - Seoni and adjoining districts also guve evidence of marked ability, and by his death the Geological Survey has lost one of the most promising as well as one of the most popular of its younger members.
Page 129 - ... soft, has been blown into great bubbles ; and in other parts the tops of caverns similarly formed have fallen in, leaving circular pits with steep sides. From the regular form of the many craters, they gave to the country an artificial appearance, which vividly reminded me of those parts of Staffordshire where the great iron-foundries are most numerous.
Page 274 - Ava in Appendix A of Col. Yule : Narrative of the Mission to the Court of Ava in 1855.
Page 161 - ... quality Is able to pay the heavy tax of freight over 500 miles of railway, besides the shipment charges to Kurope and America, lor the whole of the ore Is exported to be used principally In steel manufacture in the United Kingdom, Germany, and the United States. Manganese was one of the minerals which were largely affected by the war, the...
Page 214 - The parallelism and proximity of the Yangtze, the Mekong, and the Salween, in their exits from Tibet, are amongst the most extraordinary features of the Earth's land surfaces.
Page 87 - THE general report of the Geological Survey of India for the year 1905, published by Mr.
Page 170 - ... various parts of the world are considered. The results of careful tests show that, with a destructor of modern type, a high efficiency, both as regards evaporation and burning, is not more costly to work than a destructor burning at a lower rate and giving lower evaporative efficiencies.
Page 24 - The fact that practically the whole supply of tungsten and ferro-tungsten used by Great Britain before the war was obtained from Germany led to a great scarcity of those materials during the year 1915 and steps were taken to establish works in England for the manufacture of ferro-tungsten and tungsten steel in the country.
Page 216 - K'a-gur-pu, still receives a very big rainfall for some distance north of the rain-screen at any rate, but by the time the winds have crossed this great range, they have been robbed of nearly all their moisture, and the MekongYang-tze divide, instead of being clothed with dense forests and waving meadows of alpine flowers, presents vast stretches of barren scree, towering pillars of naked limestone, grim rocky ridges, and an aspect so drear and bleak that the scenery appals one. The...

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