CONTENTS. 



Chapter I.— 



General Consideration ...... 



Chapter II.— DETAILED ACCOUNTS OF SOME RECENT 

 EXPERIMENTS.— 



Page 



I 



I. Baluchistan 



24 



2. The Gangetic alluvium • • . . 



28 



3. Other Alluvial areas 



49 



4. Gujarat ...... 



69 



5. Borings in other tertiary rocks . . , 



75 



•6. The Gondwanas .... 



76 



7. The Vindhyans .... 



82 



8. The Deccan Trap .... 



84 



9. Other rocks ..... 



Sj 



to. Conclusion ... . . 



83 



