Cretaceous Stratigraphy : An Update

Contents: Preface. Introduction. I. Cretaceous sea level and stratigraphy: 1. Late cretaceous eustatic highs/Jake M. Hancock. 2. Marine oscillation event stratification : an example from late cretaceous bagh carbonate sequence of Narmada Valley, India/S.C. Tripathi and T.C. Lahiri. 3. Important upper cretaceous profiles in Eastern Germany/K.A. Troger. 4. Cretaceous state boundaries : review of current definitions and relevance to sections in India/A. Govindan. II. Palaeontology: 5. Some gastropods from the Trichinopoly group, Tamil Nadu, India and their relation to those from the American Gulf coast/Klaus Bandel. 6. Late cretaceous (Campanian) Brachiopods from Southern India/ V. Radulovic and K. Ramamoorthy. 7. Upper cretaceous inoceramids of Europe/Karl-Armin Troger. 8. Late cretaceous Pycnodont Oysters from the South-East of the east European platform/Alex V. Ivanov. 9. Additional bivalves from the Nimar sandstone, Bagh beds, Jhabua District, Madhya Pradesh/K.K. Nayak. 10. Larger foraminifera from the upper cretaceous of the Cauvery Basin, S.E. India/M.B. Hart, A. Bhaskar and M.P. Watkinson. 11. Middle turonian-santonian foraminiferal biostratigraphy of Trichinopoly group, South India/L. Chidambaram. 12. Lenticulina kossmatina, a new foraminiferal species from the turonian of Cauvery Basin, South India/A. Govindan and L. Chidambaram. 13. Calcareous Nannofossils from the Uttatur group of trichinopoly cretaceous, South India/Anand S. Kale, A Lotfalikani and V.G. Phansalkar. 14. Ichnofossils from Nimar sandstone formation, Bagh group of Manawar area, Dhar district, Madhya Pradesh/P. Kundal and B.N. Sanganwar. III. Palynoflora: 15. Geological age of the Ptilophyllum Flora-a critical reassessment/A. Rajanikanth, B.S. Venkatachala and Ashok Kumar. IV. Palaeoenvironment: 16. Palaeoenvironmental significance of early to middle cretaceous Bioherm sequences from the Tiruchirapalli district, Tamil Nadu, Southeastern India/D. Steinhoff and K. Bandel. 17. Lameta formation (Maastrichtian) of Narmada Rift Basin, Western India – a critical study of its depositional environments/A.V. Joshi and S. Ganapathi. 18. Vertebrate Fauna of late cretaceous Dinosaur-bearing Lameta formation of Nand-Dongargaon Inland Basin, Maharashtra : palaeoenvironment and K-T boundary implications/D.M. Mohabey and S.G. Udhoji. V. Sedimentology: 19. Cretaceous carbonate platforms in Cauvery Basin : sedimentology, depositional setting and subsurface signature/K. Yadagiri and A. Govindan. 20. A note on X-ray clay mineralogy of early cretaceous sequences, Krishna-Godavari Basin, Andhra Pradesh/K. Yadagiri and M.M.Maindarkar. 21. Late cretaceous sediments of Khasi group from Meghalaya and their palaeomagnetic implications/G.V.S. Poornachandra Rao, J. Mallikarjuna Rao and M.S. Bhalla. VI. Economic aspects: 22. Cretaceous petroleum system in Cauvery Basin, India/A. Govindan S. Ananthanarayanan and K.G. Vijayalakshmi. 23. Characterisation of Ore-grade Uranium mineralisation in the cretaceous lower Mahadek sediments, Meghalaya, India/D.B. Sen, B.M. Swarnkar, Jagmer Singh and K.K. Dwivedy. VII. Extended abstracts: Stratigraphy and palaeontology. 24. Late cretaceous deposits of Tajikistan/F.KH. Khakimov. 25. An overview of the recent progress in the cretaceous stratigraphy of Kachchh basin, India/Jai Krishna. 26. Late cretaceous Macrofossils of Egypt : biostratigraphy, palaeoecology and palaeobiogeography/Ahmed S. Kassab. 27. Ammonite sequence of Gosau group (late cretaceous) in Austria/Herbert Summesberger. 28. Turonian ammonites from Southwest and Northeast Bulgaria/Velislav Minev. 29. Lower cretaceous upwelling of the northern margin of Tethys (Pieniny Klippen belt, polish Carpathians)/Michal Krobicki and Jan Golonka. 30. A note on Pachydiscus neubergicus (von Hauer, 1858)/Jake M. Hancock. VIII. Boundary problems: 31. New data on Indian K/T boundaries/H.J. Hansen and D.M. Mohabay. 32. The Jurassic/cretaceous boundary and its identification in the Spiti Himalaya, India/Deo Brat Pathak. 33. Late cretaceous sealevel and climatic fluctuations – mineralogical and geochemical evidences in understanding the K/T boundary event/Thierry Adate, Lian Quan Li, Greta Keller and Wolfgang Stinnesbeck.

From preface: "The volume covers varied aspects of Cretaceous geology such as sea level change and stratigraphy including boundary problems, sedimentology, palaeontology including a contribution on palynoflora, and economic aspects."

From Introduction: " This compendium contains 33 contributions including 10 extended summaries. The main contributions have been grouped under the headings of Cretaceous Sea Level and Stratigraphy, Palaeontology, Palynoflora, Palaeoenvironment, Sedimentology and Economic Aspects. The extended abstracts are divided under the two heads of stratigraphy and palaeontology, and boundary problems."

[Franz Kossmat also wrote Studies of the Cretaceous System of South India it is a three part Monograph, published in 1895-98 on the Cretaceous ammonites.]