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Fossil Leaves in Amber from the Bhuban Formation, Mizoram, India

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Title Fossil Leaves in Amber from the Bhuban Formation, Mizoram, India
 
Creator TIWARI, RP
RALTE, VZ
ZORAMTHARA, C
SRIVASTAVA, G
MEHROTRA, RC
PAUL, S
DUTTA, S
 
Subject EARLY EOCENE
LIGNITE MINE
DIVERSE
GUJARAT
FOREST
SEDIMENTS
VASTAN
RECORD
Bhuban Formation
Fossil leaf
Miocene
Mizoram
Palaeoclimate
 
Description We describe, in this paper, two fossil leaves preserved in amber for the first time from northeast India. The amber collected from the Thingdawl Hmar Veng quarry belongs to the Upper Bhuban Unit of the Bhuban Formation of Surma Group and is of an early to middle Miocene age. The occurrence of leaf fossils suggest the presence of evergreen forests in the region during the depositional period. The geochemistry of amber indicates that the studied fossil resin was exuded from Dipterocarpaceae.
 
Publisher WADIA INST HIMALAYAN GEOLOGY
 
Date 2016-01-15T10:49:18Z
2016-01-15T10:49:18Z
2015
 
Type Article
 
Identifier HIMALAYAN GEOLOGY, 36(1)33-38
0971-8966
http://dspace.library.iitb.ac.in/jspui/handle/100/18388
 
Language en