MEMOIRS 



OP THE 



GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF INDIA. 



The KuRHURBAEi Coal Field, ly Theo. W. H. Hughes, f. g. s.. 

 Associate Royal School of Mines, Geological Survey of India. 



CONTENTS. 



Introduction ... 

 Previous Observers 

 General Topography 

 General Geology 



TalcMr Series ... 

 Damuda Series ... 

 Trap Dykes 

 Economic Summary 

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History of field . . . 



The Kurhurbari field'^ in the district of Hazaril>ag>h, although 

 in size ranking amongst the smallest of the coal-bearing areas of our 

 Indian empire, has, for the last 15 to 16 years, attracted the attention 

 of Government and of private individuals, owing to the generally- 

 admitted superiority of its coals to those from any of the fields of 

 the Damuda valley, and of its position as a source from whence to 

 supply the wants of the East Indian Railway and the larger towns west 

 of Dinapore. Those, however, who have so strongly upheld the advan- 

 tages possessed by the Kurhurbari field, seem to me to have failed 



* On the map, I replaces the r in Jan, in order to retain the popular pronunciation 

 of the name of the field. 



Mem. Geological Survey of India, Vol. VII, Art. 4. 



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