A manual of the geology of India : chiefly compiled from the observations of the geological survey

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Full Title:: A manual of the geology of India : chiefly compiled from the observations of the geological survey
Series Titles:: Cambridge library collection. Earth sciences
Cambridge library collection.

Additional Author/Creators:: Medlicott, Henry Benedict, 1829-1905. Manual of the geology of India

Summary:: The geologist Richard Dixon Oldham (1858-1936) published the second edition of Geology of India in 1892 for the Geological Survey of India. The work is a thoroughgoing revision of the first edition of the same manual compiled by H. M. Medlicott (1829-1905) and W. T. Blanford (1832-1905), published in 1879. It contains one of the earliest and most important geological surveys of India. Owing to an increase in available data since the first edition, descriptions of the rock formations of the country are arranged chronologically. This edition is particularly important for the data on, and discussion of, the age and origins of the Himalayas. It includes other chapters on metamorphic and crystalline rocks, fossils, vegetation, volcanic regions, geological history, and rock formation. It is a key work of nineteenth-century geology which remains relevant for geologists studying the subcontinent today.
Language:: English
Physical Type/Description:: 1 online resource (xxiv, 543 pages) : illustrations (black and white), maps (black and white, and colour), digital, PDF file(s)
General Note:: "by H.B. Medlicott, M.A., F.R.S. and W.T Blandford, L.L.D., A.R.S.M., F.R.S."--original title page.
This edition also issued in print: 2011.
Originally published: place of publication not identified: publisher not identified, 1893.
Includes index.
Local Note:: Available to current Emory faculty, students and staff.