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| Keywords: The Quarterly journal of the Geological Society of London (12471248373).jpg 350 <br> PROCEEDINGS OF THE GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY March 8 <br> Society which came from Bagh on the <br> Kerbiidda It forms a portion of that <br> assemblage of fossils which enabled <br> Capt Keatinge to determine the exist- <br> ence of Cretaceous strata in the north- <br> west of the Indian peninsula and it <br> was presented to the Society by Dr H <br> J Carter F E S The specimens from <br> the cliifs at Has Tartak and Has <br> Sharwen in South-eastern Arabia <br> were collected by Dr Carter and in- <br> clude Echinoderms Zoantharia Fo- <br> raminifera and Pectens ; they were <br> given to the Society by their distin- <br> guished collector in the hope that <br> they would at some time or another <br> be examined and named special re- <br> ference being made to the Bagh series <br> Hearing that I was studying the <br> Bagh fossils Dr Carter wrote to me <br> to direct my attention to those from <br> S E Arabia; for he considers that <br> both the localities are of Neocomian <br> age and that they are along the <br> same line of the great fault which <br> running parallel with the coast-line <br> of S E Arabia reaches the Yindya <br> range on the Nerbudda <br> 2 Position oftheStrata ” The town <br> of Bagh is situated about 22 miles <br> from the Nerbudda 145 miles from <br> the sea and about 850 feet above its <br> level A Bryozoan limestone had long <br> been known to exist in its neigh- <br> bourhood and the stones of Mandoo <br> crowded as they are with fossils had <br> excited the attention of Drs Carter <br> and Oldham f Capt Keatinge and <br> Mr Blackwell visited the caves whence <br> the stones were quarried and made <br> as careful observations as could be <br> expected under very unfavourable cir- <br> cumstances Their collection of fossils <br> was examined ; and as far as can be <br> judged these observers have fairly <br> proved their Cretaceous age Before <br> H J Carter ' Geological Papers on <br> Western India c ' 1857 p 623 <br> t T Oldham ' On some Additions to the <br> Knowledge of the Cretaceous Eocks of <br> India ' p 6 <br> X Kindly furnished by Dr H J Carter <br> S <br> ftn <br> 2Q <br> f 34892024 108495 51125 Page 350 Text v 21 http //www biodiversitylibrary org/page/34892024 1865 Geological Society of London NameFound Zoantharia NameConfirmed Zoantharia EOLID 1821 NameBankID 2572179 Biodiversity Heritage Library The Quarterly journal of the Geological Society of London v 21 1865 Geology Periodicals Smithsonian Libraries bhl page 34892024 dc identifier http //biodiversitylibrary org/page/34892024 smithsonian libraries Information field Flickr posted date ISOdate 2014-02-12 Check categories 2015 August 26 CC-BY-2 0 BioDivLibrary https //flickr com/photos/61021753 N02/12471248373 2015-08-27 10 00 32 cc-by-2 0 PD-old-70-1923 The Quarterly journal of the Geological Society of London 1865 Photos uploaded from Flickr by Fæ using a script | ||||
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