Scottish geographical magazine . Burma were then covered by the sea ; while dry land spread tothe south-west far beyond the present coast. The series of great earthmovements which took place in India, and which were ushered in by thegreatest series of volcanic eruptions found anywhere in the world—erup-tions which covered an area of 200,000 square miles with an accumu-lation of lavas and tuffs several thousands of feet in thickness—Avereprobably contemporaneous with similar earth-movements in the interiorof the continent. But the evidences of volcanic eruption in the TianShan are not at presen
Scottish geographical magazine . Burma were then covered by the sea ; while dry land spread tothe south-west far beyond the present coast. The series of great earthmovements which took place in India, and which were ushered in by thegreatest series of volcanic eruptions found anywhere in the world—erup-tions which covered an area of 200,000 square miles with an accumu-lation of lavas and tuffs several thousands of feet in thickness—Avereprobably contemporaneous with similar earth-movements in the interiorof the continent. But the evidences of volcanic eruption in the TianShan are not at present convincing. Stoliczka, indeed, found basalticrocks and boulders in the mountains north of Kashgar, and passedthrough what appeared to be the centre of an extensive volcanic discovered diabase, melaphyre, and more recent volcanicrocks, such as dolerites, in the Borohoro range north of Kulja, and tuffsin the valley of Badam in the AVestern Tian Shan. But he is of 1 Journal , vol. iii. No. 3, pp. StvruiMmu? ^^^M^^^^^^riU ** IStuht^ Chan.\ V ?•fraiojs •• Jituan, J. ^tlialoiiiew. THE MOUNTAjN SYSTEMS OF CENTRAL ASIA
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