Records of the Geological Survey of IndiaGeological Survey of India, 1887 - Earthquakes Vols. 1- include Report of the Geological Survey, 1867- ; v. 32- include Review of the mineral production of India, 1898/1903- ; v. 75 consists of Professional papers, no. 1-16; v. 76 consists of Bulletins of economic minerals. |
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... natural selection in the distribution of a limited staff accord- ing to the urgency of demand , whether practical or scientific . In the early days of the Survey the whole staff was for several successive years engaged upon the coal ...
... natural selection in the distribution of a limited staff accord- ing to the urgency of demand , whether practical or scientific . In the early days of the Survey the whole staff was for several successive years engaged upon the coal ...
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... natural close , or check , with the end of the year , and it may be expected that under present financial tightness this branch of our publications may not be so active as for the last few years . Mr. Lydekker has now pretty well ...
... natural close , or check , with the end of the year , and it may be expected that under present financial tightness this branch of our publications may not be so active as for the last few years . Mr. Lydekker has now pretty well ...
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... nature , to which and through which it would be possible to break - in the uninitiated ; that the facts it has to deal with are not facts in the usual meaning , as immediately appreciable by the senses , -mankind was for long familiar ...
... nature , to which and through which it would be possible to break - in the uninitiated ; that the facts it has to deal with are not facts in the usual meaning , as immediately appreciable by the senses , -mankind was for long familiar ...
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... nature , geo- logy is eminently unfit as an introduction to scientific work , even for those in whom the aptitude may be presumed , much more unfit for natives with whom no such presumption is apparent , and in whom the disqualifying ...
... nature , geo- logy is eminently unfit as an introduction to scientific work , even for those in whom the aptitude may be presumed , much more unfit for natives with whom no such presumption is apparent , and in whom the disqualifying ...
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... nature her- self to the earnest student , in whom faith in nature is the needful germ ; from this indeed there springs a conviction which need no longer be called faith , it is know- ledge , the only real apprehension . ' With it will ...
... nature her- self to the earnest student , in whom faith in nature is the needful germ ; from this indeed there springs a conviction which need no longer be called faith , it is know- ledge , the only real apprehension . ' With it will ...
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Afghanistán anticlinals appears augite Bág Band Bawar beds belong Blaini Blanford Bose boulders Calcutta carboniferous Cenomanian character Chirákhán Chor clay closely allied coal Coal-field colour conglomerate crystalline crystals Deccan traps deposits Dudatoli east eocene feet felspar Flsc foliation fossils fragments genus Geol Geological Survey gneiss gneissose granite Gondwana Haibak hills Himalayas Hindu Kush horizon hornblende igneous rocks Indian Museum Jaunsar jurassic Kúsh latter limestone lower magnetite mandible Marl metamorphism mica microscope miles mineral miocene molars namadicus neocomian numerous nummulitic occur outcrop Outer formations palæindicus Perim Island pliocene porphyritic present Punjab quartz quartzites range ridge river Royal 8vo sandstone schistose schistose series schists seam seen shales Simla sivalensis Siwalik slates slices Society species specimens strata stream structure Survey of India tertiary thickness traps Turán Turkistán unconformity upper cretaceous valley volcanic XVII XVIII
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