The desert is increasing its bounds

TCD MS 10515 folio 102 recto

TCD MS 10515 folio 102 recto

Geology.
There is little to remark on the Geology of this extensive plain. It is a constructural plain resembling in all its features the thick deposits of alluvium through which the Indus, the Ganges and other great rivers of Asia now flow. Its formation is obvious; it is built, probably from a depth of hundreds of thousands of feet by the accumulation of sediment swept from the mountains by the Euphrates river. At the head of the Persian Gulf where the combined Tigris and Euphrates discharge their silt-laden waters into the sea we observe the deposition of the sediment, the accumulation of the alluvium, the extension of the plain. The desert is ever increasing its bounds as the delta of the river advances into the sea. The ocean is being