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Evidence Bearing on the Age of the Saline Series in the Salt Range of the Punjab

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 May 2009

A. K. Ghosh ,
J. Sen  and
A. Bose
A. K. Ghosh
Affiliation:
Calcutta
J. Sen
Affiliation:
Calcutta
A. Bose
Affiliation:
Calcutta
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Abstract

The Punjab Saline Series has been assigned to the Cambrian and also to the Eocene. Gee has described field evidence which points to a Cambrian age, but Sahni has found microscopic plant and insect remains which have been interpreted as demonstrating an Eocene age. The application of Schultze's technique (also adopted by Sahni) to samples from the undoubted Cambrian rocks of the Salt Range has shown that these too occasionally contain a microflora which includes elements that are not so far known to be indigenous to Cambrian rocks. Its occurrence awaits explanation.

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Geological Magazine , Volume 88 , Issue 2 , April 1951 , pp. 129 - 132
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1951

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