DN Wadia

Geology of India - DN Wadia - Macmillan publishers (1919)

Geology is the science and study of the composition, structure, physical properties, dynamics and history of the liquid and solid materials/matter that constitutes the Earth.

Posted on 01 Mar, 2010 12:10 AM

The Geology of India by DN Wadia, a geologist with the Geological Survey of India, is considered to be one of the most important and complete reference works available today on the subject.

Contents

1. Physical features, 2. Stratigraphy of India, 3. The Archaean System, 4. The Dharwar System, 5. The Cuddapah System, 6. The Vindhyan System, 7. The Cambrian System, 8. The Silurian, Devonian and Lower Carboniferous Systems, 9, 10. The Gondwana System, 11. The Upper Carboniferous and Permian Systems, 12. The Triassic System, 13. The Jurassic System, 14, 15. The Cretaceous System, 16. The Deccan Trap, 17. The Tertiary Systems, 18. The Eocene System, 19. The Oligocene and Lower Miocene Systems, 20. The Siwalik System - Middle Miocene and Lower Pliocene, 21-24. The Pleistocene System, 25. Physiography, 26. Economic Geology, 27. Geology and Stratigraphy of Kashmir; Index. Total contents - 398 pages.

The book divides India into three main geological divisions - the triangular plateau of the peninsula, the mountainous or the extra-peninsular region bordering India on the west north and east, and the Indo-gangetic plain extending from the valley of the Indus to the valley of the Brahmaputra in Assam. The desert region of western Rajasthan is considered to be a unique fourth category, as it combines characteristics of two of the three main divisions.

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