Records of the Geological Survey of India

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Geological Survey of India, 1910 - 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 231 - incomparably superior to that of any other part of Baluchistan that the matter deserves careful consideration. The climate is suited to all kinds of crops : wheat, cotton, indigo, sugar-cane, rice, etc. The population appears intelligent and industrious. If the natural water-supply of the region could be made available to
Page 187 - the average interval from a maximum to a minimum being a little over 10 seconds, and the average change of velocity in this time being about 10 miles an hour.
Page 231 - in the same way, but this would benefit mostly territory belonging to Kharan. Of course such works would require a large outlay. But the potentiality of the Mekran seems to me so incomparably superior to that of any other part of Baluchistan that the matter
Page 49 - magnesian schists in four ways :—< (1) as scattered granules ; (2) as large patches of irregular shape ; (3) as definite veins traversing the magnesian rocks in any direction ; (4) as veins up to 3 feet thick, composed of magnetite, with vein quartz, secondary limonite and chert. The magnetite is probably the result of segregation from the igneous rocks from which the
Page 49 - The Turamdih deposits occur in some foot-hills at the north base of the Dhoba Hills in the villages of Talsa,
Page 234 - (Geological Sketch of the Baluchistan Desert and part of Eastern Persia, Mem. Geol. Surv. Ind.,
Page 231 - of the region could be made available to its fullest efficiency, the province could support three or four times its present population, and would become a prosperous
Page 165 - flowing from the hills is evaporated long before it reaches the sea, owing to the porous nature of the sand and the dryness of the atmosphere, and the salt it contains, which would under ordinary conditions be carried by rivers into the sea, and help to swell the amount of salt already there, is deposited among
Page 165 - the sand grains, and in process of time has thoroughly impregnated the soil with salt. The process is in fact exactly similar to that which, it is universally admitted, accounts for the presence of the salt in the sea itself. Wherever depressions in the general level of the country occur, as at

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