Editors:
- Provides a unified view of the Paleogene Sequences of India
- Gives an overview about all Paleogene stages exposed on the Indian subcontinent
- Shows the fossil record of the Paleogene
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Table of contents (13 chapters)
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Front Matter
About this book
This unique book provides a concise account of Indian Paleogene and presents a unified view of the Paleogene sequences of India. The Paleogene, comprising the early part of the Cenozoic Era, was the most dynamic period in the Earth’s history with profound changes in the biosphere and geosphere. The period spans ~42 million years, beginning from post- K/T mass extinction event at ~65 Ma and ending at ~23 Ma, when the first Antarctic ice sheet appeared in the Southern Hemisphere. The early Paleogene (Paleocene–Eocene) has been considered a globally warm period, superimposed on which were several transient hyperthermal events of extreme warmth. Of these, the Palaeocene Eocene Thermal Maxima (PETM) boundary interval is the most prominent extreme warming episode, lasting 200 Ka. PETM is characterized by 2–6‰ global negative carbon isotope excursion. The event coincided with the Benthic Extinction Event (BEE) in deep sea and Larger Foraminifera Turnover (LFT) in shallow seas.Rapid ~60–80 warming of high latitudinal regions led to major faunal and floral turnovers in continental, shallow-marine and deep-marine areas. The emergence and dispersal of mammals with modern characteristics, including Artiodactyls, Perissodactyls and Primates (APP), and the evolution and expansion of tropical vegetation are some of the significant features of the Paleogene warm world.
In the Indian subcontinent, the beginning and end of the Paleogene was marked by various events that shaped the various physiographic features of the Indian subcontinent. The subcontinent lay within the equatorial zone during the earliest part of the Paleogene. Carbonaceous shale, coal and lignite deposits of early Eocene age (~55.5–52 Ma) on the western and north-eastern margins of the Indian subcontinent are rich in fossils and provide information on climate as well as the evolution and paleobiogeography of tropical biota. Indian Paleogene deposits in the India–Asia collision zone also provideinformation pertaining to the paleogeography and timing of collision. Indian Paleogene rocks are exposed in the Himalayan and Arakan mountains; Assam and the shelf basins of Kutch–Saurashtra, Western Rajasthan; Tiruchirappalli–Pondicherry and Andaman and, though aerially limited, these rocks bear geological evidence of immense importance.
Editors and Affiliations
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Birbal Sahni Institute of Palaeosciences, Lucknow, India
Sunil Bajpai, Vandana Prasad
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Geological Survey of India, Hyderabad, India
Satish C. Tripathi
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Indian Paleogene
Editors: Sunil Bajpai, Satish C. Tripathi, Vandana Prasad
Series Title: Society of Earth Scientists Series
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-77443-5
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing AG, part of Springer Nature 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-77442-8Published: 07 May 2018
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-08456-1Published: 01 February 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-77443-5Published: 24 April 2018
Series ISSN: 2194-9204
Series E-ISSN: 2194-9212
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: X, 327
Topics: Structural Geology, Sedimentology, Historical Geology, Biogeosciences, Coastal Sciences