Geologic Environment and Human Evolution in Asia¹

Research on Early Man in Burma, with Supplementary Reports upon the Pleistocene Vertebrates and Mollusks of the Region, and Pleistocene Geology and Early Man in Java

“…Van Es (1931, p. 11) considers this as an argument against the great age of the plant bed, but do the interglacial floras of Europe behave any differently? This thermal difference corresponds to an altitudinal variation of about 1100 m. and a snowline of about 3000 to 3100 m. The latter computation has a distinct analogy to the snowline depression of the Second Glaciation in the Himalayas, as I have pointed out elsewhere (de Terra, 1940). Amongst the fossil plants there are some which Schuster considered as climnatic indicators, such as Reevesia wallichii, of the family Sterculiaceae, and a citrus tree, Feronia elephattum, found in India from the Himalayan foothills southward to Ceylon.…”