H. B. Medlicott, W. T. Blanford

A Manual of the Geology of India

Herausgeber: Oldham, Richard Dixon

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Oldham's Manual was a pioneering work of nineteenth-century geology that contains some of the earliest geological descriptions of India.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 626
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Januar 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 244mm x 170mm x 33mm
• Gewicht: 1064g
• ISBN-13: 9781108072540
• ISBN-10: 1108072542
• Artikelnr.: 33271436

Inhaltsangabe

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.