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IX.—On the Scratched and Facetted Stones of the Salt, Range, India

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 May 2009

George H. Stone
Affiliation:
Colorado College, Colorado Springs, U.S.A.

Extract

At the Meeting of the British Association in 1886, a facetted and striated pebble from the Salt Range, Punjab, was exhibited and described, by A. B. Wynne, F.G.S. Another and larger one was presented by Dr. W. T. Blanford, F.R.S.

During the discussion that ensued, the question was considered whether the stones had received their shapes from the action of windblown sand. Having made a special study of sand-carving in a favourable region, the writer became interested in the subject, and with a view to compare the Punjab stones with the sand-facetted rockfragments so common in various parts of America, wrote to Dr. Blanford in order to obtain specimens of the stones in question. By the kindness of Dr. Blanford and Mr. Wynne, plaster casts of both the specimens described by them have been sent to me.

Type
Original Articles
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1889

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References

page 415 note 1 Geol. Mag. 1886, Dec. III. Vol. III. pp. 492, 494, and p. 574.Google Scholar

page 416 note 1 Including in addition to the original articles of Dr. Blanford and Mr. Wynne, communications by MrOldham, R. D., Geol. Mag. 01. 1887,Google Scholar and from Rev. Irving, A., Geol. Mag. 04, 1887.Google Scholar Similar specimens are discussed by DrWarth, H., Records Geol. Survey of India, vol. xxi. pt. 1, 1888.Google Scholar