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Siwalik Hills

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Indien / Himachal Pradesh / Sirmaur, Distrikt / Siwalik Hills

Journey Description

Gebirgsmassiv im N Teil des indischen Subkontinents. Erstreckt sich über 2400 km von W nach O im Vor-Himalaya. Es ist 10–50 km breit mit einer duchschnittlichen Höhe von 1.500–2.000 m.

Es ist also präsent in Indien, Pakistan, Bhutan, Nepal.

Geology

Sandstein, Schlammstein, Konglomerat.

Bekannt für neogene und pleistozäne Vertebraten Fossilien.

Erdöl und Erdgas.

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Shortened path specification

Siwalik Hills, Sirmaur, Himachal Pradesh, IN
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Important: Before entering this or any other place of discovery you should have a permission of the operator and/or owner. Likewise it is to be respected that necessary safety precautions are kept during the visit.

Additional Functions

Minerals (Count: 16)

Rocks (Count: 9)

Fossils (Count: 34)

External links

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Reference- and Source indication, Literature

Literatur:

  • (1839). XIX.—Note on a Fossil Ruminant Genus allied to Giraffidæ in the Siwalik Hills. Ann. Mag. Natural History, S. 13 (16). 167-69 doi:10.1080/03745483909443216
  • (1880). III.—On some Fossil Bird-Remains from the Siwalik Hills in the British Museum. Geol. Mag., S.2, Vol.7 (1) 18-27 doi:10.1017/s0016756800146904
  • CHAUDHRI, R.S. (1972a). Heavy minerals from the Siwalik Formations of the NW Himalayas. Sed. Geol. (Netherlands), v.8, S.77-82.
  • HUSSAIN, S. TASEER (1973). Appearance of Hipparion in the Tertiary of the Siwalik Hills of North India, Kashmir and Pakistan. Nature, 246 (5434). 531 doi:10.1038/246531a0
  • Mukerji, A.B. (1976). Rural Settlements of the Chandigarh Siwalik Hills (India): A Morphogenetic Analysis. Geografiska Annaler: Series B, Human Geography, 58 (2). 95-115 doi:10.1080/04353684.1976.11879415
  • Parkash,B., R.P. Sharma u. A.K. Roy (1980). The Siwalik group (Molasse) — Sediments shed by collision of continental plates. Sedimentary Geology, Vol.25, Nr.1–2, S.127-59.
  • Chaudhri, R.S. u. G.T.S. Gill (1981). Heavy Mineral Assemblage of the Siwalik Group of Nepal Himalaya. Geol. Soc. India. Vol.22, Nr.5, May 1981.
  • Rajwar, G.S. (1984). A Note on Phytogeographical Analysis of the Flora of the Garhwal Siwalik Hills, India. J. Biogeography, 11 (3). 261pp. doi:10.2307/2844645
  • Tamrakar, Naresh K.i, Yokota, S., Osaka, O. (2002). A toppled structure with sliding in the Siwalik Hills, midwestern Nepal. Engin. Geol., 64 (4). 339-50 doi:10.1016/s0013-7952(01)00095-3
  • Pandita, S.K., Bhat S.K. and Kotwal S.S. (2011). Facies Evaluation of Boulder Conglomerate Formation,Upper Siwalik, Jammu Himalaya, Him. Geol., v.32(1), S.63–69.
  • Sehgal, R.K. u. R. Patnaik (2012). New muroid rodent and Sivapithecus dental remains from the Lower Siwalik deposits of Ramnagar (J&K, India): Age implication. Quaternary Intern. 14 August 2012.
  • van Sittert, S.J., Mitchell, G. (2015). On reconstructing Giraffa sivalensis, an extinct giraffid from the Siwalik Hills, India. Peer J, 3. doi:10.7717/peerj.1135
  • Borah, K., N. Kanna u. K.S. Prakasam (2015). Sediment thickness beneath the Indo-Gangetic Plain and Siwalik Himalaya inferred from receiver function modelling. J. Asian Earth Sciences. March 2015.
  • Dhital, M.R. (2015). Introduction to Siwaliks. In: Geology of the Nepal Himalaya. Regional Geology Reviews. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-02496-7_27
  • Parmar, V., G.V.R. Prasad u. R. Norboo (2015). Cricetid rodents from the Lower Siwalik Subgroup of Jammu, India: Biochronological significance. Palaeoworld, Sept. 2015.
  • Batool, A., M.A. Khan u. M. Akhtar (2016). New Bovid fossils from the Late Miocene Hasnot (Siwaliks, Pakistan). Palaeoworld, Sept. 2016.
  • (2016). A MONOGRAPH ON NATIONAL GEOHERITAGE MONUMENTS OF INDIA. March. INTACH Indian National Trust for Art and Cultural Heritage, Natural Heritage Div. 71, Lodhi Estate, New Delhi-110003. S.39ff.
  • Pandolfi, L., Maiorino, L. (2016). Reassessment of the largest Pleistocene rhinocerotineRhinoceros platyrhinus(Mammalia, Rhinocerotidae) from the Upper Siwaliks (Siwalik Hills, India). J. Vertebrate Paleont., 36 (2) doi:10.1080/02724634.2015.1071266
  • Guntupalli, V.P., V.R. Prasad u. R. Norboo (2018). Middle Miocene small mammals from the Siwalik Group of NW India. J. Asian Earth Sciences.
  • Ríos, M., M. Danowitz u. N. Solounias (2019). First identification of Decennatherium Crusafont, 1952 (Mammalia, Ruminantia, Pecora) in the Siwaliks of Pakistan. Geobios. Dez. 2019.
  • Martin, J.E. (2019). The taxonomic content of the genus Gavialis from the Siwalik Hills of India and Pakistan. Papers in Palaeont., 5 (3). 483-97 doi:10.1002/spp2.1247
  • Nakajima, T., Y. Matsumoto u. K. Yoshida (2020). Middle Miocene denudation of the Higher Himalayan Crystallines revealed by chemical composition of detrital garnets from the Siwalik foreland basin sediments, W and central Nepal, J. Asian Earth Sciences, 9 July 2020.
  • Chutia, A., Taye, C.D., Daimari, J. et al. (2020). Petrography and Clay Mineralogical Study of the Siwalik Group of Rocks Exposed along Pasighat-Mariyang Road Section, East Siang District, Arunachal Pradesh, Northeast India. J. Geol Soc India 95, 263–72. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12594-020-1424-1
  • Singh, Y., Chaudhri, A.R. (2020). Morphotectonic Study of Frontal Siwalik Hills, near i, Kangra, Himachal Pradesh, India. Open J. Geol., 10 (4) 280-300 doi:10.4236/ojg.2020.104015
  • Sayyed, M.R., G. Abbas u. N. Solounias (2022). Distinction of Sivatherium from Libytherium and a new species of Libytherium (Giraffidae, Ruminantia, Mammalia) from the Siwaliks of Pakistan (Miocene). Geobios, 18 Aug. 2022.
  • Bera, M., M.A. Khan u. S. Bera (2022). A novel fossil-species of Meliolinites Selkirk (fossil Meliolaceae) and its life cycle stages associated with an angiosperm fossil leaf from the Siwalik (Mio-Pliocene) of Bhutan sub-Himalaya. Fungal Biology, 16 July 2022.
  • Buffetaut, E. (2022). Feduccia, A. (ed.). "The First-Named Fossil Ostrich: A Revision of Struthio asiaticus, from the Siwaliks of India". Diversity. 14 (10): 860. doi:10.3390/d14100860.
  • Asim, M., K. Aftab u. S. Saeed (2023). Middle Miocene “Giraffa” from the Chinji Formation of Siwaliks, Pakistan. Palaeoworld, Avail. online 9 March 2023.

IDs

GUSID (Global unique identifier short form) 7omrixHGj0GxieIYylNJKA
GUID (Global unique identifier) 8BAB89EE-C611-418F-B189-E218CA534928
Database ID 49643