Epicontinental Permian-Cretaceous seaways in central India: The debate for the Narmada versus Godavari rifts for the Cretaceous-Tertiary incursion

V Kumari, SK Tandon, N Kumar, A Ghatak - Earth-Science Reviews, 2020 - Elsevier
This study presents an overview of Mesozoic transgressions that influenced the
palaeogeography of central India, and offers an analysis of the existing evidence for the …

Sedimentologist's guide for recognition, description, and classification of paleosols

NJ Tabor, TS Myers, LA Michel - Terrestrial depositional systems, 2017 - Elsevier
Paleosols are an important component of the terrestrial stratigraphic record and are
increasingly utilized in stratigraphic analyses and paleoenvironmental and paleoclimate …

Faunal elements from the Deccan volcano‐sedimentary sequences of India: A reappraisal of biostratigraphic, palaeoecologic, and palaeobiogeographic aspects

VV Kapur, A Khosla - Geological Journal, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
The sedimentary sequences associated with the Deccan Flood Basalts, ie, infratrappean
and intertrappean deposits, are known to yield a diverse assemblage of fauna that includes …

Late Cretaceous–Paleogene Indian monsoon climate vis-à-vis movement of the Indian plate, and the birth of the South Asian Monsoon

H Bhatia, MA Khan, G Srivastava, T Hazra… - Gondwana …, 2021 - Elsevier
Abstract After India separated from Gondwana, its 9000 km northward voyage from the
Southern Hemisphere to its modern position joined with Eurasia took 160 million years …

New mammals from the Naskal intertrappean site and the age of India's earliest eutherians

GPW Mantilla, PR Renne, B Samant… - Palaeogeography …, 2022 - Elsevier
The first Cretaceous mammals described from India were recovered from the Naskal locality,
on the southeastern edge of the Deccan Traps Volcanic Province (DTVP), where it is …

[HTML][HTML] Surprisingly modern latest Cretaceous–earliest Paleocene woods of India

EA Wheeler, R Srivastava, SR Manchester, P Baas - IAWA Journal, 2017 - brill.com
ABSTRACT Background and approach–The Deccan Intertrappean Beds of Central India
contain a diverse assemblage of fossil plants, including petrified woods from 15 localities …

Revisiting the equable climate problem during the Late Cretaceous greenhouse using paleosol carbonate clumped isotope temperatures from the Campanian of the …

L Burgener, E Hyland, KW Huntington… - Palaeogeography …, 2019 - Elsevier
Greenhouse climates such as the Late Cretaceous period provide important reference
frames for understanding modern anthropogenic climate change. Upper Cretaceous …

Fossil palm fruits from India indicate a Cretaceous origin of Arecaceae tribe Borasseae

KKS Matsunaga, SR Manchester… - Botanical Journal of …, 2019 - academic.oup.com
The fossil record of palms (Arecaceae) is essential for understanding the deep evolutionary
and geographical history of the family. We studied palm fruit fossils from the c. 67–64-Myr …

Fossil fruits and seeds of Zingiberales from the late Cretaceous–early Cenozoic Deccan Intertrappean beds of India

SY Smith, DK Kapgate, S Robinson… - … Journal of Plant …, 2021 - journals.uchicago.edu
Premise of research. Fossil fruits and seeds of Zingiberales provide essential data on the
past diversity and distribution of the order, augmenting our understanding of the evolutionary …

Wood evolution: Baileyan trends and functional traits in the fossil record

EA Wheeler, P Baas - IAWA journal, 2019 - brill.com
We revisited questions about changes in the incidences of functional wood anatomical traits
through geologic time and compared the incidences of these traits in the fossil record with …