Studies in the Glossopteris flora of India - 33. Fossil plants and miospores from the coal bearing beds of the Umaria coalfield with some remarks on the age of the beds

P.K. Maithy

doi:10.54991/jop.1965.714

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P.K. Maithy Birbal Sahni Institute of Palaeobotany, 53, University Road, Lucknow 226007, India

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https://doi.org/10.54991/jop.1965.714

Abstract

The age of the coal-bearing beds of the Umaria coalfield is an stratigraphical controversy in Indian Lower Gondwana System. Views have been expressed in the past by several workers to consider them as equivalent to the Barakar stage, however, others opined it to be Karharbari in age. The present investigations of the paleobotanical content of these beds suggest that they are more or less homotaxial to the Karharbari beds of the Giridih coalfield.

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