First record of Middle-Late Jurassic palynomorphs from the Lamayuru Complex, Indus Suture Zone, Ladakh, India

Current Science

Volumn 88, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 980-986

  Upadhyay, Rajeev ^a   Ram Awatar, ^b   Kar, R K ^b   Sinha, Anshu K ^c  

^a KUMAUN UNIVERSITY   (India)

^b BIRBAL SAHNI INSTITUTE OF PALAEOBOTANY   (India)

^c GH 19   (India)

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