| Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland - 1843 - 576 lehte
...commonly met with are ferruginous, gritty, and schistose sandstone; sandstone conglomerates, imbedding rolled pebbles of quartz, chert, and jasper ; claystone...with oxide of iron ; coarse red jasper ; and quartz erystals. Some of these pebbles have evidently been transported from the adjacent hills, but the porphyritic... | |
| Valentine Ball - 1881 - 152 lehte
...thick, which rests immediately on a bed of rolled stones of various sizes, from that of a paving-stone to a nut, in which the diamonds are found, generally...base of the hills the cotton soil is covered with red gritty earth, arising from the disintegration of the sandstone rock. The process of mining consists... | |
| Valentine Ball - 1881 - 152 lehte
...Survey," vol. ii. p. 9 ; and " Memoirs Geological Survey," vol. viil p. 106. t y. RAS vol. vii. p. 226. embedding rolled pebbles of quartz, chert, and jasper...base of the hills the cotton. soil is covered with red gritty earth, arising from the disintegration of the sandstone rock. The process of mining consists... | |
| Katharine Blanche Guthrie - 1881 - 338 lehte
...sandstone conglomerates, imbedding rolled pebbles of quartz, chert, jasper, claystone, porphyry, and crystals of felspar, blue jasper veined with oxide...these pebbles have evidently been transported from adjacent hills, but the porphyritic and felspathic pebbles must have travelled a much greater distance.... | |
| Madras (India : Presidency) - 1885 - 584 lehte
...commonly met with are ferruginous, gritty, and schistose sandstones, sandstone-conglomerates, including rolled pebbles of quartz, chert and jasper, claystone...base of the hills the cotton soil is covered with red gritty earth, arising from the disintegration of the sandstone rock. The process of mining consists... | |
| C. F. Brackenbury - 2000 - 296 lehte
...commonly met with are ferruginous, gritty and schistose sandstones, sandstone-conglomerates, including rolled pebbles of quartz, chert and jasper, claystone...base of the hills the cotton soil is covered with red gritty earth, arising from the disintegration of the sandstone rock. The process of mining consists... | |
| Madras (India : State) - 1915 - 310 lehte
...commonly met with are ferruginous, gritty and schistose sandstones, sandstone-conglomerates, including rolled pebbles of quartz, chert and jasper, claystone...base of the hills the cotton soil is covered with red gritty earth, arising from the disintegration of the sandstone rock. The process of mining consists... | |
| Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland - 1843 - 544 lehte
...commonly met with are ferruginous, gritty, and schistose sandstone; sandstone conglomerates, imbedding rolled pebbles of quartz, chert, and jasper ; claystone...jasper veined with oxide of iron ; coarse red jasper j and quartz crystals. Some of these pebbles have evidently been transported from the adjacent hills,... | |
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