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- Burrowing Activities of Goby Fish in the Recent Intertidal Mud Flats along the Navinal Coast, Kachchh, Western India
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1 Department of Geology, M. G. Science Institute, Navrangpura, Ahmedabad - 380 009, IN
2 Department of Geology, M. S. University of Baroda, Vadodara - 390 002, IN
1 Department of Geology, M. G. Science Institute, Navrangpura, Ahmedabad - 380 009, IN
2 Department of Geology, M. S. University of Baroda, Vadodara - 390 002, IN
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Journal of Geological Society of India (Online archive from Vol 1 to Vol 78), Vol 74, No 4 (2009), Pagination: 515-530Abstract
Behavioural activities of the goby fish-Periophthalmodon septemradiatus were observed in the intertidal zone around Navinal coast in the Gulf of Kachchh, western India. Intertidal zone is broad, and comprise of creeks, which are muddy and vegetated by mangrove on eastern side and ridge runnel systems on western side of the study area which are hospitable for the goby fish. Different types of biogenic activities are observed such as crawling, pellet making, grazing and burrowing. The crawling activity is part of movement of the goby fish from one burrow to another burrow and pellet making activity is part of burrow modification. The grazing activity is feeding on the surface mud after receding of tide and exposure of the tidal flat by left and right movement of the front part of the body. The most conspicuous activity is burrowing, they construct unlined, vertical to incline 'I', 'J' and 'Y' shaped branched, circular to oval burrows with varying diameter and depth. In the muddy sediments goby fish produced circular to oval rimmed muddy lumps as surfacial expression around the burrows and further produced funnel shape depression and downward extended cylindrical holes, while in the runnels burrows are usually small and simple. The trail is consisting of fin marking on either side of the tail marks (grooves) which are radiate around the burrows. Occasionally burrows are interconnected in more than one burrow system which is nested within single funnel structure on the surface.
The burrow systems of the goby fish in the intertidal sediments serves for protection and dwelling purpose and most importantly these burrows are irrigated by water which supply the oxygen and keep body surface wet. The overall dimensions of the burrow decrease towards the lower intertidal zone. In all, behavioural structure produced by the goby fish marks the combined activity of dwelling, feeding and grazing. The complex behavioural mechanisms have helped the goby fish to survive and flourish in the harsh intertidal environments along the Navinal Coast, in the Gulf of Kachchh.
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Mud-Skippers, Biogenic Activities, Intertidal, Navinal, Gulf of Kachchh, Gujarat.
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- Trace Fossil Assemblages in Mixed Siliciclastic-Carbonate Sediments of the Kaladongar Formation (Middle Jurassic), Patcham Island, Kachchh, Western India
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1 Department of Geology, The Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda, Vadodara - 390 002, IN
2 Geology Department, M.G. Science Institute, Navrangpura, Ahmedabad - 390 009, IN
1 Department of Geology, The Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda, Vadodara - 390 002, IN
2 Geology Department, M.G. Science Institute, Navrangpura, Ahmedabad - 390 009, IN
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Journal of Geological Society of India (Online archive from Vol 1 to Vol 78), Vol 80, No 2 (2012), Pagination: 189-214Abstract
The Middle Jurassic rocks of the Kaladongar Formation well exposed in the Kaladongar Hill range of the Patcham Island and Kuar Bet of the Northern Kachchh comprises of ∼450 m thick sequence of mixed siliciclastic-carbonate sediments intercalated with shales. These Mixed siliciclastic-carbonate sediments show wide variation in textural and mineralogical composition and represent genetically related six rock types: micritic sandstone, allochemic sandstone, sandy allochemic limestone, micrtic mudrock, sandy micrite and muddy micrite; which are highly bioturbated and show behaviourally diverse groups of trace fossils. Total 34 ichnogenera are identified, which includes, Arenicolites, Asterosoma, Beaconites, Bergaueria, Chondrites, Cochlichnus, Dactylophycus, Daedalus, Didymaulichnus, Diplocraterion, Gordia, Gyrochorte, Gyrolithes, Ichnocumulus, Laevicyclus, Lockeia, Margaritichnus, Monocraterion, Nereites, Ophiomorpha, Palaeophycus, Phoebichnus, Phycodes, Pilichnus, Planolites, Plug Shaped Form, Protovirgularia, Rhizocorallium, Scolicia, Skolithos, Taenidium, Teichichnus, Thalassinoides and Walcottia. These trace fossils are classified into six morphological groups namely, circular and elliptical structures; simple structures; branched structures; rosette structures; spreiten structures; and winding and meandering structures. These trace fossils are further group into eight assemblages which occurred together into mixed siliciclastic-carbonate sediments, include, Asterosoma assemblage, Gyrochorte assemblage, Rhizocorallium assemblage, Thalassinoides assemblage, Planolites-Palaeophycus assemblage, Phycodes assemblage, Ophiomorpha assemblage and Skolithos assemblage. The recurring pattern of these assemblages through the sequence displays the development of Skolithos and Cruziana ichnofacies and at places the mixed Skolithos-Cruziana ichnofacies which suggest a low wave and current energy conditions with intervening period of high wave and current energy conditions and an intermediate period of stressful environments, respectively. Sedimentological and ichnological data suggest that the deposition of the mixed siliciclastic-carbonate sediments of the Kaladongar Formation took place in the foreshore to offshore environment under fluctuating wave and current energy condition.Keywords
Mixed Siliciclastic-Carbonate Sediments, Trace Fossil Assemblages, Shallow Marine, Kaladongar Formation, Middle Jurassic, Kachchh, Western India.References
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