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2023
GEOLOGY HONOURS
Paper : CC-10
(Phanerozoic Stratigraphy of India)
Full Marks : 50
The figures in the margin indicate full marks.
Candidates are required to give their answers in their own woraS
as far as practicable.
1. 1x10
Answer any ten questions :
0What is the geological age of the Fenestella shale Formation?
basin.
Naie one characteristic brachiopod fossil of the Cambrian Formation of the Kashmir
(C) Name the leading zone fossil of the Ordovician System of the Spiti Valley.
(d) Which geological age of the Paleozoic succession of Spiti and Kashmir is found to be nearly
unfossiliferous?
(e) What are the dominant rock types of the Mesozoic succession of the Spiti basin?
() What is the age of the Trigonia bed of the Kutch basin?
(g) In which tectonic setting was the early Jurassic sediments of the Kutch basin deposited?
(h) What is the dominant lithotype of the Pachham coral bed?
i) Name the Oligocene succession of the Assam basin.
A State tYue or false : "Gondwana basins in peninsular India represent some grabens or half grabens".
(k) State true or flse : "The Baratang Formation represents a repeated Bouma cycle".
(1) The Boulder Conglomerate Formation of the Upper Siwalik was deposited under which climatic
condition?

(m) Write about the nature of contact between the Ariyalur Group and the underlying Trichinopoly
Group.
(n) Name one characteristic bivalvia fossil of the Niniyur Formation.
Name the type area of the Siwalik sequence.
2. Answer any five from the following : 2x5
(a) Write a short note on the age of the Neyveli Formation of the Cauvery basin.
(b) Write about the depositional environment of the Eocene beds of the Kutch basin.
(c) Write briefly on the Upper Jurassic faunal assemblage of the Kutch and Spiti basins.

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