Manual of the Geology of India - Chiefly Compiled From the Observations of the Geological Survey

Klappentext Oldham's Manual was a pioneering work of nineteenth-century geology that contains some of the earliest geological descriptions of India. Zusammenfassung The second edition of Geology of India (1892)! compiled by Oldham for the Geological Survey of India! is a revision of the first edition by Medlicott and Blanford (1879). It is a key work of nineteenth-century geology! containing some of the earliest and most important geological descriptions of India. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface to the first edition; Preface to the second edition; 1. Physical geography; 2. Metamorphic and crystalline rocks; 3. Transition systems; 4. Older Palaeozoic (Cuddapah and Vindhyan) systems of the peninsula; 5. Older Palaeozoic systems of the extra-peninsular area; 6. Carboniferous and triassic rocks of extra-peninsular India; 7. The Gondwána system; 8. Mountains of the Gondwána system; 9. Marine jurassic rocks; 10. Marine cretaceous rocks of the Indian peninsula; 11. Deccan Trap; 12. Creataceous rocks of the extra peninsular area; 13. Tertiary deposits (excluding those of the Himalayas); 14. Tertiaries of the Himalayas (including the North-Western Punjab); 15. Laterite; 16. Pleistocene and recent deposits (exclusive of the Indo-Gangetic alluvium); 17. The Indo-Gangetic plain; 18. The age and origin of the Himalayas; 19. Geological history of the Indian peninsula; Index.

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• Authors: W. T. Blanford, Blanford W. T., H. B. Medlicott, H. B. Blanford Medlicott, Medlicott H. B., Richard Dixon Oldham
• Assisted by: Richard Dixon Oldham (Editor), Oldham Richard Dixon (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 02.06.2011
• EAN: 9781108072540
• ISBN: 978-1-108-07254-0
• No. of pages: 626
• Series: Cambridge Library Collection -; Cambridge Library Collection - Earth Science
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Geosciences > Geology; SCIENCE / Earth Sciences / Geology, India, Geology, geomorphology and the lithosphere, Geology & The Lithosphere