MEMOIRS 



OP THE 



GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF INDIA. 



Memoir on the Geolo&y op Kutoh, to aceom.pany the Map compiled by 

 A. B. Wynne and F. Fedden, during the seasons of 1867-68 and 

 1868-69,—% A. B. Wynne, p. g. s., Geol. Surv. of India. 



Pkeliminaey eemarks. — The regular operations of the Geological 

 Survey were extended into Kutch (or Cutch) towards the end of the 

 year 1867, a hasty reeonnoissance having been j)reviously made by 

 Mr. W. T. Blanford in 1863, the results of which appeared among the 

 Memoirs of the Survey (Vol. VI). 



The only map of the province available for the purposes of the 

 Survey was that compiled by Sir Alexander (then Lieutenant) Burnes 

 Deputy Assistant Quarter Master General, in the years 1825, 1826, 1827 

 and 1828, on a scale of four miles to an inch. 



With a revised edition of this, bearing date 1854, work was 

 commenced at the eastern side of the State, that being the least known 

 portion of the district, and a locality where it was hoped that the 

 observations to be made, together with those on a more central portion 

 recorded by Mr. Blanford, would enable a correct conclusion to be formed 

 regarding the hitherto doubtful relations between the terrestrial and 

 marine fossiliferous beds, long known to occur more or less nearly 

 associated in this district, while the terrestrial beds contained forms 

 eminently characteristic of formations widely distrijxited in other parts 

 of India. 



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Mem., Geol. Surv. of India, Vol. IX, Art. 1. 



