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

R. P. Kachhara ¹, K. Bigyapati Devi ¹, R. L. Jodhawat ¹

Affiliations
1 Department of Geology, Mohanlal Sukhadia University, Udaipur - 313 002, IN

Abstract

Presence of oldest marine Tertiary rocks in Kachchh for a long time has remained debatable and controversial. To resolve the issue in better way authors have worked out a section along tributary of Kakdi Nadi about 0.5 km west of village Nareda in southwestern Kachchh and collected molluscan fauna. Systematic study of these fauna reveals presence of 15 taxa of which 12 are of bivalves and 3 of gastropods. This molluscan assemblage leads to the presence of marine Palaeocene sequence around Nareda. Recorded assemblage hitherto not known earlier from Kachchh.

Keywords

Molluscan, Bivalves, Gastropods, Palaeocene, Gujarat.

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