The peripatetic fossils: part 3
The articles printed below are by co-authors of some of the papers called into doubt by Talent. Two are by close colleagues of Gupta at the Centre of Advanced Study in Geology at Panjab University.
Devonian Conodonts from Kashmir
THE increasing use of conodonts in studies of Palaeozoic stratigraphy in Europe and North America has recently received added impetus by the discovery of faunas in other continents where broadly similar faunas have been described from strata of similar ages. So far, however, there has been only one published record of conodonts from the Indian subcontinent1. A well preserved fauna of some 1,200 individual conodonts has recently been extracted from a sample of siliceous limestone, collected from a locality near Lutherwan, Kashmir (33° 6′ 00″ N., 75° 35′ 00″ E.). The insoluble residue also yielded many fragments of bony material and numerous fish teeth. The strata yielding conodonts lie just below the Muth Quartzite which has been assigned a Middle Devonian age on the basis of fossils collected from a locality 1 mile north of Naubug (33° 44′ 30″ N., 75° 23′ 30″ E.), Anantnag Distt, Kashmir.
Pioneer 10 Observations of the Ultraviolet Glow in the Vicinity of Jupiter
A two-channel ultraviolet photometer aboard Pioneer 10 has made several observations of the ultraviolet glow in the wavelength range from 170 to 1400 angstroms in the vicinity of Jupiter. Preliminary results indicate a Jovian hydrogen (1216 angstrom) glow with a brightness of about 1000 rayleighs and a helium (584 angstrom) glow with a brightness of about 10 to 20 rayleighs. In addition, Jupiter appears to have an extensive hydrogen torus surrounding it in the orbital plane of Io. The mean diameter of the torus is about equal to the diameter of the orbit of Io. Several observations of the Galilean satellites have also occurred but only a rather striking Io observation has been analyzed to date. If the observed Io glow is predominantly that of Lyman-α, the surface brightness is about 10,000 rayleighs.