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

Ashok K. Khanna ¹, Anshu K. Sinha ¹, S. C. D. Sah ¹

Affiliations
1 Wadia Institute of Himalayan Geology, Dehra Dun 248001, IN

Abstract

Stratigraphic status of Yong Limestone has been formally instituted following the Code of Stratigraphic Nomenclature of India. A reasonably rich palynological assembIage, consisting of 11 Chitinozoan and 9 scolecodont forms, have been recorded from this stratal sequence. Chitinozoan evidence indicates that Yong Limestone may be a time transgressive unit. The Ordovician-Silurian boundary perhaps lies within the lower part of this formation.

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