Journal of Geological Society of India (Online archive from Vol 1 to Vol 78)

J. S. Guleria ¹, Rashmi Srivastava ¹, A. C. Nanda ², R. K. Sehgal ²

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

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.

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