Palaeontology of Niti in the Northern Himalaya: being descriptions and figures of the Palaeozoic and secondary fossils collected by Colonel Richard Strachey ...
Year: 1865
Type: book
Abstract: When, in 1851, Colonel Strachey read a paper before tbe Geolo¬ gical Society, on the Physical Geography and Geology of the Himalayas and Thibet,* the fossils he had laboured so strenu¬ ously to collect hardly drew the attention they deserved.In the published abstract, however, the main facts were recorded, and lists of genera quoted, which showed, in accordance with the sections, an ascending order from Silurian slates, through Carboniferous beds (the Devonian has not yet been detected in India), to a most interesting set of strata, which clearly represent in every way the New Red Sandstone.The fossils of the last-named beds, indeed, agree perfectly with that portion of the Triassic fauna which is developed in the St. Cassian beds, in the Tyrol.It so happened that these celebrated Alpine strata had, a short time before, attracted renewed attention, and their relative age had been canvassed by
DOI: 10.5962/t.173224
Language: English
Subfield: Paleontology
Field: Earth and Planetary Sciences
Domain: Physical Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W3101120692