Autochthonous deposition of Indian coal beds with palaeobotanical evidences of in situ plants from Saharjuri Basin, Jharkhand

Current Science

Volumn 88, Issue 9, 2005, Pages 1487-1490

  Banerjee, Manju ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALCUTTA   (India)

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