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Coccoliths from sediments of the Gulf of Kutch

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Title Coccoliths from sediments of the Gulf of Kutch
 
Creator Guptha, M V Shankaranarayana
 
Description 85-88
Sediments samples (31) from the Gulf and adjacent continental shelf have been studied for the distribution of coccoliths. Ten modern and 42 reworked coccoliths of Upper Cretaceous and Lower Tertiary have been encountered. The Gulf shows predominance of reworked fossils indicating very slow deposition. Sediments of the adjacent shelf show that the northern part is almost devoid of modern flora except for traces of Gephyrocapsa oceanica and a few reworked fossils while sediments on the shelf off the mouth of Gulf reveal gradual increase and decrease of modern and reworked coccoliths respectively with increasing depth. Sediments of the 4th transect towards southern end of Gulf indicate increase in the modern flora both in diversity and abundance and decrease in reworked fossils seaward. It is inferred that the Gulf is the main source of reworked fossils in the slope and perhaps in the deeper regions.
 
Date 2016-12-26T07:13:25Z
2016-12-26T07:13:25Z
1979-06
 
Type Article
 
Identifier 0975-1033 (Online); 0379-5136 (Print)
http://nopr.niscair.res.in/handle/123456789/39187
 
Language en_US
 
Rights CC Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 2.5 India
 
Publisher NISCAIR-CSIR, India
 
Source IJMS Vol.08(2) [June 1979]