Study of fossil wood from the upper Tertiary sediments (Siwalik) of Arunachal Pradesh, India and its implication in palaeoecological and phytogeographical interpretations

Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology

Volumn 107, Issue 3-4, 1999, Pages 223-247

  Mehrotra, R C ^a   Awasthi, N ^b   Dutta, S K ^c  

^a BIRBAL SAHNI INSTITUTE OF PALAEOBOTANY   (India)

^b Dibrugarh University ^*  (India)

^c DIBRUGARH UNIVERSITY   (India)

Author keywords

Arunachal Pradesh (India); Carbonised; Fossil wood; Late Miocene Pliocene; Palaeoecology; Phytogeography

Indexed keywords

FLORA; FOSSIL; PALEOECOLOGY; SPECIES-AREA RELATIONSHIP; TERTIARY; WOOD;

INDIA;

AFZELIA; ALBIZIA; CASSIA; CYNOMETRA; EURPHORIA; GLUTA; INTSIA; SHOREA; SINDORA; TERMINALIA;

EID: 0032763351     PISSN: 00346667     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0034-6667(99)00029-9     Document Type: Article

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