A Manual of the Geology of India

by Oldham, Richard Dixon

• ISBN13: 9781108072540
• ISBN10: 1108072542
• Edition: Revised
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2011-06-02
• Publisher: Cambridge Univ Pr

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.

Table of Contents

Preface to the first edition

Preface to the second edition

Physical geography

Metamorphic and crystalline rocks

Transition systems

Older Palaeozoic (Cuddapah and Vindhyan) systems of the peninsula

Older Palaeozoic systems of the extra-peninsular area

Carboniferous and triassic rocks of extra-peninsular India

The GondwÃína system

Mountains of the GondwÃína system

Marine jurassic rocks

Marine cretaceous rocks of the Indian peninsula

Deccan Trap

Creataceous rocks of the extra peninsular area

Tertiary deposits (excluding those of the Himalayas)

Tertiaries of the Himalayas (including the North-Western Punjab)

Laterite

Pleistocene and recent deposits (exclusive of the Indo-Gangetic alluvium)

The Indo-Gangetic plain

The age and origin of the Himalayas

Geological history of the Indian peninsula

Index

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