Palynological studies on a late Palaeozoic-Mesozoic Tethyan sequence in the Niti area of the Central Himalaya, Uttar Pradesh, India

Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology

Volumn 94, Issue 1-2, 1996, Pages 169-196

  Tiwari, R S ^a   Vijaya, ^a   Mamgain, V D ^b   Misra, R S ^b  

^a BIRBAL SAHNI INSTITUTE OF PALAEOBOTANY   (India)

^b GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF INDIA   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOSTRATIGRAPHY; PALYNOLOGY; PERMIAN; TRIASSIC;

INDIA, UTTAR PRADESH, NITI;

EID: 0030274270     PISSN: 00346667     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0034-6667(95)00112-3     Document Type: Article

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