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Two Fossil Woods from the Siwalik Subgroup of Northwestern Himalaya


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1 Birbal Sahni Institute of Palaeobotany, 53 University Road, Lucknow - 226 007, India
2 Wadia Institute of Himalayan Geology, 33, General Mahadeo Singh Road, Dehra Dun - 248 001, India
     

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The paper reports the occurrence of a fossil wood of Terminalia for the first time from the Lower Siwalik Subgroup of Panchkula, Haryana along with a fossil Dipterocarpus wood from further east in the Middle Siwalik Subgroup, exposed south of Dehra Dun, Uttaranchal. These woods indicate the prevalence of moist conditions and existence of tropical lowland vegetation in the western part of Himalayan Foot-Hills till the Middle Siwalik.

Keywords

Fossil Woods, Xylotomy, Lower Siwalik (Middl Meiocene), Middle Siwalik, (Upper Miocene), Palaeoclimate, Phytogeography, Haryana, Uttaranchal.
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J. S. Guleria
Birbal Sahni Institute of Palaeobotany, 53 University Road, Lucknow - 226 007, India
Rashmi Srivastava
Birbal Sahni Institute of Palaeobotany, 53 University Road, Lucknow - 226 007, India
A. C. Nanda
Wadia Institute of Himalayan Geology, 33, General Mahadeo Singh Road, Dehra Dun - 248 001, India
R. K. Sehgal
Wadia Institute of Himalayan Geology, 33, General Mahadeo Singh Road, Dehra Dun - 248 001, India

Abstract


The paper reports the occurrence of a fossil wood of Terminalia for the first time from the Lower Siwalik Subgroup of Panchkula, Haryana along with a fossil Dipterocarpus wood from further east in the Middle Siwalik Subgroup, exposed south of Dehra Dun, Uttaranchal. These woods indicate the prevalence of moist conditions and existence of tropical lowland vegetation in the western part of Himalayan Foot-Hills till the Middle Siwalik.

Keywords


Fossil Woods, Xylotomy, Lower Siwalik (Middl Meiocene), Middle Siwalik, (Upper Miocene), Palaeoclimate, Phytogeography, Haryana, Uttaranchal.