Identifier: memoirsofgeologi2131geol (find matches)
Title: Memoirs of the Geological Survey of India.
Year: 1859 (1850s)
Authors: Geological Survey of India
Subjects: Geology Mines and mineral resources
Publisher: Calcutta : Pub. by order of the Governor-General of India
Contributing Library: American Museum of Natural History Library
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nce in which I have ever met with roots or stems in such aposition, and on account of the rareness of the circumstance, I havethought it worth while recording. There is every appearance of theVertebrarise being in their original situation, having grown in the carbo-naceous shale, and penetrated into the underlying bed. Outside the drainage system of the Kunuk, there is still one river,the Gohirari and its tributaries, lying west of the Gohirari Nala. , . . . . watershed of the Kewai, in which there is evidenceof coal. It joins the Son within the area of the Talehirs, but throughoutits entire course it is the old story of no seams of a determinable thick-ness of over 3 feet. There are outcrops near Outcrops. Taraidol, Chinmar, Sardih, Murdhoa, Ledara,Pakariha, Reula, Bargaon, Dhuma, and Titriponri. In quality, the seam south of Dhuma and the one north of Reula areDhuma and Reula seemingly the best, but my opinion must be ac-8eams- cepted as open to possible correction when more ( 192 )
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SOHAGPUR COAL-FIELD. 57 detailed and more special enquiry is instituted. I deemed it a sufficientreason, so far as this country is at present concerned, for abridging myexamination of a seam when its apparent thickness did not exceed 3feet; at the same time I am aware that beds of less thickness than thisare sometimes successfully worked in Europe. Kewai River.—The next observations on coal fall withi n the drainagesystem of the Kewai river, and there is some satisfaction in being able tostate that two or three of the outcrops met with rise above the yardlimit. The Kewai and the Son meet about 2; miles below the border of thePendra subdivision of the Bilaspur District. Of the two rivers theKewai is the larger, and its name should either have been substitutedfor that of the Son, or the course of the latter should have been alongthat of its affluent. The scenery of the Kewai is Scenery. in many places very bold and impressive, therebeing repeated stretches of rocky channels and cliffs

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