This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1878 Excerpt: ... Artysh beds, thus preparing an arable ground for the agriculturist, whenever a favourable opportunity offers itself. A few miles south of Chung-terek, the laminated Artysh beds entirely disappear under the gravel, which from its greater consistency assumes here the form of a rather tough, coarse conglomerate. In the ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1878 Excerpt: ... Artysh beds, thus preparing an arable ground for the agriculturist, whenever a favourable opportunity offers itself. A few miles south of Chung-terek, the laminated Artysh beds entirely disappear under the gravel, which from its greater consistency assumes here the form of a rather tough, coarse conglomerate. In the bend of the river the latter has a thickness of fully 200 feet, and is eroded by lateral rivulets into remarkably regular Gothic pillars and turrets. It is rare to meet with a more perfect imitation of human art by nature. The general surface of the gravel deposits is comparatively low, from 400 to 500 feet above the level of the river; it is much denuded and intersected by minor streams and old water-courses. Section from Kdshghar to the Chadyr Lake. At a couple of miles north of Chung-terek the Koktan range begins with rather abrupt limestone cliffs, rising to about 3,000 feet above the level of the Toyanda. Nearly in the mid 9 die of it are situated the forts Mirza-terek and Chakmak, some ten miles distant from each other. The southern portion of this range consists at its base of undulating layers of greenish or purplish shales, overlain by dark-coloured, mostly black, limestone in thick and thin strata, the latter being generally earthy. The limestone occupies all the higher elevations, and, as is generally the case, greatly adds to the ruggedness of the mountains. About 5 miles north of Chung-terek, I found in a thick bed of limestone an abundance of Megalodon triqueter, a large Pinna, a Spiriferma of the type of S. stracheyi, blocks full of Lithodendron corals, and numerous sections of various smaU Gastropoda. Thinner layers of the same limestone were full of fragments of Crinoid stems, and of a branching Ceriopora, the rock itself beari...
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