 | Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland - Asia - 1846 - 634 pages
...than to see a hill of granite, trap, or hypogene rock, capped with a thick crUst of laterite; whilft the adjacent hills, composed of an exactly similar...exposed to the action of the weather, are quite bare of laterite. I have examined many beds of it resting on trap, and amygdaloid imbedding calcedonies, heliotrope,... | |
 | India - 1848 - 608 pages
...lateritic tracts than to see a hill of granite trap or hypogene rock capped with a thick crust of laterite; while the adjacent hills, composed of an exactly similar...exposed to the action of the weather, are quite bare of laterite." " I have seen too," says Captain Newbold, " laterite resting on limestone, without any traceable... | |
 | Geology - 1853 - 422 pages
...the Fort of Colombo. Laterite may also be seen, says Captain Newbold, capping hypogene or trap-rocks of great elevations, while the adjacent hills, composed...a trace of lime in the laterite. If my information be correct, laterite is also seen over some of the limestones of Jaffna, in the north of the island.... | |
 | Bombay Geographical Society - Geography - 1852 - 450 pages
...; while the adjacent hills, composed of an exactly similar rook, and forming a continuation of tho same bed, equally exposed to the action of the weather, are quite bare of latérite. I have examined many beds of it resting on trap, and amygdaloid ¡mbedding caloedonies,... | |
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Hills near Madras, where it rests on granite, and its interstratified beds of lignite and silicified wood, militate strongly against this theory. Besides, nothing is more common in lateritic tracts than to see a hill of granite, trap, or hypogene rock,... 