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'IRAQ AND THE PERSIAN GULF' [393r] (788/862)
The record is made up of 1 volume (430 folios). It was created in 1944. It was written in English. The original is part of the British Library: India Office The department of the British Government to which the Government of India reported between 1858 and 1947. The successor to the Court of Directors. Records and Private Papers Documents collected in a private capacity. .
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STRATIGRAPHY
617
Age
Lower Cre
taceous
Jurassic
Trias
Permian and
Carboniferous
Devonian
Basement Pre-
Cambrian
Formation
Remarks
Sandy limestone interbedded with sand
stone and conglomerate and containing
banks of Exogyra flabellata occur on
south-west of the basin.
Dolomitic limestone with Nerinea is found
in the western desert and is about too
feet thick.
Thin-bedded limestones with Globigerina
and Ammonites in the north-east; about
300 feet thick.
Grey limestone with sandstone and ferru
ginous oolite in the very north about
1,100 feet thick.
Sandstone and quartzite in the western
desert with laterite on top.
Bituminous shale and shaly limestone with
Posidonomya and Ammonites lie on top of
massive foetid dolomite associated locally
with asphalt. About 1,500 feet thick
except in the extreme north where it
thickens to 5,000 feet at Ora. In western
Iraq it is made up of sandstone and
quartzite; part of the Nubian Sandstone.
Red thin-bedded chert and interbedded
oolitic limestone in the thrust sheets in
the north-east about 5,000 feet thick.
Bedded limestone with lenses of black
chert and thin bedded argillaceous and
shelly limestones with shaly partings
(with rare echinoid spines and plates),
about 2,000 feet thick in the north-east
and in upper Mesopotamia.
Nubian Sandstone in the west.
Red, green, and yellow shales, siltstones,
and thin limestones with rare Lamelli-
branchs in the Sirwan. Light grey thin-
bedded dolomites and dolomitic lime
stones with sparse Fusulina above and dark
flaggy and massive limestones and sub
ordinate shale below, with corals and
gasteropods. About 2,400 feet thick.
Nubian Sandstone in the west.
White quartzitic sandstone and dark shales
with plant remains, associated with red
sandstone with thin limestone bands.
About 200 feet exposed in Ghara Dagh
near Amadia.
Exposed only in Transjordania and Saudi
Arabia, made up of schist and gneiss
much folded and cut by volcanic in
trusions.
Shallow water to the
south-west and sand
available from the sea
floor.
Shallow sea temporarily
stagnant.
Land with humid climate
both north-east and
south-west where soil
was leached to form
laterite.
Stagnant sea freshened at
intervals by ventilating
currents after deep-sea
conditions obtained
earlier.
Desert in the west.
Volcanoes in the north
east.
Normal marine condi
tions.
Desert in the west.
Shallow tvater with pos
sibly a short emergence.
Encroaching sea brings
sand with it and then
clearing to normal and
reef condition.
Desert in the west.
Terrestrial or locally del
taic conditions.
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The volume is titled Iraq and the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. (London: Naval Intelligence Division, 1944).
The report contains preliminary remarks by the Director of Naval Intelligence, 1942 (John Henry Godfrey) and the Director of Naval Intelligence, 1944 (E G N Rushbrook).
There then follows thirteen chapters:
- I. Introduction.
- II. Geology and description of the land.
- III. Coasts of the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. .
- IV. Climate, vegetation and fauna.
- V. History.
- VI. People.
- VII. Distribution of the people.
- VIII. Administration and public life.
- IX. Public health and disease.
- X. Irrigation, agriculture, and minor industry.
- XI. Currency, finance, commerce and oil.
- XII. Ports and inland towns.
- XIII. Communications.
- Appendices: stratigraphy; meteorological tables; ten historical sites, chronological table; weights and measures; authorship, authorities and maps.
There follows a section listing 105 text figures and maps and a section listing over 200 illustrations.
- Extent and format
- 1 volume (430 folios)
- Arrangement
The volume is divided into a number of chapters, sub-sections whose arrangement is detailed in the contents section (folios 7-13) which includes a section on text-figures and maps, and list of illustrations. The volume consists of front matter pages (xviii), and then a further 682 pages in the original pagination system.
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Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the front cover with 1, and terminates at the inside back cover with 430; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto The front of a sheet of paper or leaf, often abbreviated to 'r'. side of each folio.
Pagination: the file also contains an original printed pagination sequence.
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- 'IRAQ AND THE PERSIAN GULF'
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- front, back, spine, edge, head, tail, front-i, 2r:253r, 254r, 255r:429v, back-i
- Author
- East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
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