| Economic Aspects of the Vanished Floras of
the ~ndian Region.* |
C. S. FOX, D. Sc. (Birm.), M. I. Min. E., F. G. S.,
Pages : 41-46
DOI : 10.1080/0371750X.1943.11012010 |
| Abstract |
| [ would like to ~ay first that geologists have frequently
derived valuable iuformation from the results of investigations
made by palmo-botanists on fossil plants both in India and
elsewhere, so that plant fossils have hecome useful guides in
our recognition or at least identification of the geological age
of sedimentary rocks. I must add also that this is the first
time I have delivered a lecture to botanists, and it is, therefore,
hardly necessary for me to say that I am glad of this opportunity
to record the usefulness of botanical research even of the so-tospeak
dead and buried plants of millions of years ago. However,
I hope to show you that what might have been mere vegetable
debris at· the time the coal seams of the Indian region were
being laid down in lakes or river valleys or in coastal lagoons,
now representR the most important form of mineral wealth to
this country. |
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