Prehistory and Protohistory in India and Pakistan c7.s17.3

c7.s17.3

While the sandy beaches and the slightly inland marshes are comparatively young, formed as they are in sub-recent times, the case of the entire coast is much older. All this again is basaltic,⁷⁶ formed by the lava flows during the Eocene times. Fossil buried forests from the Bombay harbour suggest that a period had intervened between this lava and the subrecent times when the alluvium was formed.