Wynne, A. B., Memoir on the Geology of Kutch, Memoirs of the Geological Survey of India, 9, 1-294, 1872.

The opening text contains interesting accounts of early manuscripts of the geology of the region including materials that describe the 1819 earthquake. Lyell, for example, is related to have sent an observer to check into the reality of the Allah Bund prior to Baker's river bank measurements in 1844. Most of the text, however, is a pretty numbing description of Jurassic sections seen through the eyes of Victorian geologists.


The region covered is 68-72E and 22-25 N. Wynne and his colleagures did not map the Allah Bund (region1A and 1B) .

Map 2E indicates the location of MacMurdo's grave. MacMurdo was the young Gujarati-speaking, much-revered Resident of Kachchh who saw to relief operations in 1819 and who provided us with quantitative accounts of epicentral damage and descriptions of geological effects of the 1819 earthquake. He died at age 33 while visiting villagers near the epicenter of the 2001 Bhuj event.

The 2001 epicentral region of the Geological Map (pink) is scanned as four 0.5 Mb images. Large areas are blank (the salt wastes of the Rann of Kachchh).

1A 1B 1C Scan 1D, Scan 1E 1F

2A 2B 2C 2D Scan 2D Scan2E 2F