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Age of the Saline Series in the Punjab Salt Range

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PROF. B. SAHNI'S important observations1 have necessitated a reconsideration of this problem. In order to review the geological evidence on the ground, an excursion was arranged to examine several sections which had led E. R. Gee, of the Geological Survey of India, and other geologists to the conclusion that the Saline Series of the Salt Range is of Cambrian or pre-Cambrian age. Prof. Sahni was unfortunately unable to take part in the excursion, the party consisting of the undersigned.

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COATES, J., CROOKSHANK, H., GEE, E. et al. Age of the Saline Series in the Punjab Salt Range. Nature 155, 266–267 (1945). https://doi.org/10.1038/155266b0

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