Journal of Geological Society of India (Online archive from Vol 1 to Vol 78)

Open Access Open Access  Restricted Access Subscription Access
Open Access Open Access Open Access  Restricted Access Restricted Access Subscription Access

A Preliminary Report of Microfossils (Foraminiferida) from the Jurassic Sediments of Jajiya Member, Jaisalmer Formation, Western Rajasthan


Affiliations
1 Department of Geology, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh, India
 

   Subscribe/Renew Journal


In Peninsular India marine Jurassic rocks are well developed in Kutch and Jaisalmer regions. Although there are numerous reports of microfossils particularly foraminifera from the Jurassic rocks of Kutch, only a few foraminiferal studies are available from the Jurassic rocks of Jaisalmer region (Subbotina et al. 1960; Garg and Singh, 1983; Kalia and Chowdhury, 1983; Dave and Chatterjee, 1996). This may be due to the fact that the exposures of Jurassic rocks in Jaisalmer area are not as thick and well exposed as in the Kutch region and are mostly buried under sand dunes.
Subscription Login to verify subscription
User
Notifications
Font Size

  • BERNHARD, J.M. (1986) Characteristic assemblages and morphologies for anoxic organic rich deposits: Jurassic through Holocene. Jour. Foraminifer. Res., v.16, pp.207-215.

  • DASGUPTA, S.K. (1975) A revision of the Mesozoic-Tertiary stratigraphy of the Jaisalmer basin, Rajasthan, India. Indian Jour. Earth Sci., v.2, pp.77-94.

  • DAVE, A. and CHATTERJEE, T.K. (1996) Integrated foraminiferal and ammonoid biostratigraphy of Jurassic sediments in Jaisalmer basin, Rajasthan. Jour. Geol. Soc. India, v.47, pp.477-490.

  • GARG, R. and SINGH, S.N. (1983) Distinctive Bathonian agglutinated foraminifera from Jaisalmer, Western Rajasthan, India. Jour. Palaeontol. Soc. India, v.28, pp.118-133.

  • GRIGYALIS, A.A. (1958) Globigerina oxfordiana sp. n. – nakhodka Globigerin v Verkhneyurskikh otlozheniyakh Litvy. Nauchnye Doklady Vysshey Shkoly, Geologo-Geograficheskie Naukki, v.3, pp.109-111.

  • KACHHARA, R.P. and JODHAWAT, R.L. (1981) On the age of the Jaisalmer Formation, Rajasthan, India. Proc. IX Indian Colloq. Micropalaeontol. and Stratigr., pp.235-247.

  • KALANTARI, A. (1969) Foraminifera from the Middle Jurassic-Cretaceous succession of Koppet-Dagh region (N.E. Iran). Nat. Iranian Oil Co., Geol. Lab., Publ. 3, 298p.

  • KALIA, P. and CHOWDHURY, S. (1983) Foraminiferal biostratigraphy, biogeography, and environment of the Callovian sequence, Rajasthan, Northwestern India. Micropaleontol., v.29, pp. 223-254.

  • LOEBLICH, A.R. and TAPPAN, H. (1950) North American Jurassic foraminifera, I: The type Red Water Shale (Oxfordian) of South Dakota. Jour. Paleontol., v.24, pp.39-60.

  • MURRAY, J.W. (1991) Ecology and palaeoecology of benthic foraminifera. Longman, New York, 397p.

  • REOLID, M., RODRIGUEZ-TOVAR, NAGY, J. and OLORIZ, F. (2008) Benthic foraminiferal morphogroups of mid to outer shelf environments of the Late Jurassic (Prebetic Zone, southern Spain): Characterization of biofacies and environmental significance. Palaeogeogr. Palaeoclimatol. Palaeoecol., v.261, pp.280-299.

  • SUBBOTINA, N.N., DUTTA, A.K. and SRIVASTAVA, B.N. (1960) Foraminifera from the Upper Jurassic deposits of Rajasthan (Jaisalmer) and Kutch, India. Bull. Geol. Min. Met. Soc. India, v.23, pp.1-48.


Abstract Views: 212

PDF Views: 149




  • A Preliminary Report of Microfossils (Foraminiferida) from the Jurassic Sediments of Jajiya Member, Jaisalmer Formation, Western Rajasthan

Abstract Views: 212  |  PDF Views: 149

Authors

A. Talib
Department of Geology, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh, India
Gagnesh Upadhyay
Department of Geology, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh, India
M. Haseen
Department of Geology, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh, India

Abstract


In Peninsular India marine Jurassic rocks are well developed in Kutch and Jaisalmer regions. Although there are numerous reports of microfossils particularly foraminifera from the Jurassic rocks of Kutch, only a few foraminiferal studies are available from the Jurassic rocks of Jaisalmer region (Subbotina et al. 1960; Garg and Singh, 1983; Kalia and Chowdhury, 1983; Dave and Chatterjee, 1996). This may be due to the fact that the exposures of Jurassic rocks in Jaisalmer area are not as thick and well exposed as in the Kutch region and are mostly buried under sand dunes.

References