MEMOIRS 



OF THE 



GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF INDIA. 



On the Geology of the Taptee and Lower Nerbtjdda valleijs and some 

 adjoining districts, hy William T. Blanford, Assoc. Roy. School of 

 Mines, f. g. s.j c. m. z. s., kc, Deputy Superintendent of the Geolo- 

 gical Survey of India. 



PART I. 



Geology of the country generally considered. 



Chapter 1. — Introductory. 



The tract of country described in the present report comprises the 

 western portion of the Nerbudda valley from 

 Hoshungabad to the sea, and nearly the whole valley 

 of the Taptee and its tributaries, with the exception of the southern 

 part of Khandeish. It also includes a small portion of the Malwa and 

 Bhopal table knd, north of the Nerbudda drainage-area, and so much 

 of the Upper Wurda valley as is comprised in Sheet 54 of the Indian 

 Atlas. To the west it is bounded by the sea from the Mhye to the 

 Taptee. The whole extent from east to west is about 360 miles, from 

 north to south the breadth varies from 175 to 80 miles, the average 

 being nearly 150. 



Pohtically this region consists— in the east, of portions of the Bhopal,. 

 Dhar, and Indore States, to the north of the Nerbudda; of part of 

 Hoshungabad district, nearly the whole of Baitool and a portion of 



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