New Delhi, July 10 -- While Kashmir's cool, temperate climate is widely relished today, you will be surprised to know that it was once a warm, humid subtropical haven, as has been revealed by a recent study.
This stark transformation, now buried in the past, has been uncovered through the analysis of fossilized leaves and tectonic processes that reshaped the region's environment, said the research led by experts from the Birbal Sahni Institute of Palaeosciences (BSIP), Lucknow under the autonomous institute of the Department of Science and Technology (DST).
The experts uncovered the rich collection of fossilized leaves from the Karewa sediments of Kashmir, which were curated by the late Prof. Birbal Sahni and Dr. GS Puri. These specim...