Early India and Pakistan to Ashoka c6.s2.1

c6.s2.1

In northern India (Kashmir and the Punjab), as in Europe, the Pleistocene was an epoch of intermittent glaciation and, again as in Europe, four main advances of the ice have been recognized. It is likely but unproved that the Himalayan and the Alpine series approximate to one another in time, and may be equated in tropical India with pluvials or phases of extreme rainfall.