Occurrence of Microflora in the Salt Pseudomorph Beds, Salt Range, Punjab

Abstract

The age of the Punjab Saline Series is still a vexed problem in Indian geology. Gee^1,2,3,4 and Fox⁵, to whom we are indebted for much of our geological knowledge of this area, have assigned a ‘Cambrian’ or ‘pre-Cambrian’ age to this series. Sahni^6,7 and Sahni and Trivedi^10,11, on the other hand, from the evidence of such microfossils, for example, woods of conifers, cuticles of grasses, angiospermous wood elements, etc., and their repeated occurrence at widely different localities, are against ‘Cambrian’ or ‘pre-Cambrian’ age. Two lively symposia were held in December 1944 and 1945 at Poona and at Udaipur, respectively, and a vast literature has accumulated on the subject^8,9,12.