Journal of the Faculty of Science, Hokkaido University. Series 4, Geology and mineralogy;Vol.XXII, No.2

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Fauna from the "Muth Quartzite", Garhwal Himalaya, India

Goel, Rajendra Kumar;Kato, Makoto;Jain, Arvind Kumar;Srivastava, Shambhu Sharan

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Abstract

A form of pentamerid brachiopod denoting the Late Silurian age and some corals are recorded from the upper part of the "Muth Quartzite" in Kiogad valley of Garhwal Himalaya. This finding implies that, in spite of previous assignment of the Muth Quartzite as of exclusively Devonian, it is a lithostratigraphic unit of largely Silurian age.

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