Geological papers on western India, including Cutch, Sinde and the south-east coast of Arabia : to which is appended a summary of the geology of India generally / edited for the Government by Henry J. Carter.

Date:
1857
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Credit: Geological papers on western India, including Cutch, Sinde and the south-east coast of Arabia : to which is appended a summary of the geology of India generally / edited for the Government by Henry J. Carter. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    On the Fossils of the Eastern Portion of the Great Basaltic District of India. By John G. Malcolmson, Esq., F.G.S.* [Read November 15th and December Oth, 1837.] CONTENTS. Introduction.—Objects of the Memoir. General Sketch of the Physical Features, Hy- drography, and Geology of the Basaltic and Granitic Districts. The Valley of the Nerhuclda, Godavery, Kistnah, Pennar. Granite platform between the Kistnah and Go- davery. Iron ore, mines, and manufacture of the steel. Description of the Sichel Hills, and of the Freshwater Shells. Country between the Sichel Hills and Nag-poor. Origin of Minerals in Trap Itocks. Description of the Lonar Lake and analysis of the water. Age of the diamond sandstone and argillaceous limestone. Inferences respecting the Freshwater Fossils. Other districts in India in which similar Fresh- water Shells have been found. Relative age of the Laterite and Trap. Introduction. The principal objects of the following paper are, to submit to the. Society an account of a series of fossils discovered in the eastern part ol the great basaltic district of India; and to endeavour to arrive at some approximate conclusion respecting the geological era of this basaltic formation, which, extending over more than 200,000 square miles, conceals, breaks up, or alters all the other rocks from beneath which it has forced its way. Of the eruptions to which this rich and romantic country (formerly including several considerable kingdoms) owes its, existing form, a late President of this Society remarks! that (Second^s'11^ )^r°m dm Transactions of the Geological Society of London, vol. v. p. 537- tl f]n t*l'S an<* ^ie Showing reprints, copies of the maps only will be now added, and Tn °°^cuts an(l other figures deferred for subsequent publication. Hence there jc a running number” for the plates which are to contain the latter, substituted for the numbers whmhupp^ m thc originaJ C(litions._EmTOR. >-ee i r. urchison’s Anniversary Address, Geological Proceedings, vol. i. p. 154. u