1st Edition
Geology of the Cauvery Basin in South India
1. The Geology of Cauvery Basin (South India)
Sreepat Jain and Nivedita Chakraborty
Section 1: Stratigraphy, Sedimentation, and Climatic Oscillations
2. A Note on the Early Cretaceous of the Cauvery Basin (South India): A Need for a Unified Scheme and Resampling
Sreepat Jain
3. Sequence Development in Relation to Sedimentation History of the Cretaceous–Miocene Cauvery Basin: A New Outlook
Nivedita Chakraborty, Shilpa Srimani, Indrani Mondal, et al.
4. The Geological Significance of Authigenic Green Marine Clays in the Cauvery Basin, India
Tathagata Roy Choudhury
5. Albian Climate Oscillations in India (Cauvery Basin) and Madagascar: General Overview Based on Oxygen-, Carbon- and Strontium-Isotope Data
Yuri D. Zakharov and R. Nagendra
6. Characterization of Bioherms and their Associated Facies: A Case Study from Kallankurichchi Limestone Formation, Ariyalur Group, Cauvery Basin, India
Shilpa Srimani
7. Stratigraphic Lexicon of the Cretaceous Outcrops, Cauvery Basin, South India
R. Nagendra, A. Nallapa Reddy, D.S.N. Raju, et al.
Section 2: Structure, Tectonics, and Hydrocarbon Perspective
8. Structure, Tectonics and Hydrocarbon Entrapment Styles of Cauvery Basin, India
Jalla Nagaraju, Sabyasachi Banerjee, Subhash Kumar Sharma, et al.
9. Tectonic History, Stratigraphy, and Hydrocarbon Potential of the Sri Lankan Sector of the Cauvery Basin: An Overview
Upul Premarathne
10. The Northward Movement of the Indian Plate and Paleobiogeography of the Late Cretaceous Ariyalur Invertebrate Fauna
Arkaprava Mukhopadhyay, Debarati Chattopadhyay, Shubhabrata Paul, et al.
Section 3: Paleoecology, Paleobiogeography, and Paleobiota
11. Diversity and Distribution of Benthic Marine Calcareous Algae in the Cretaceous–Palaeogene Sequence of Cauvery Basin
Amit K. Ghosh, Stuti Saxena, and Lopamudra Roy
12. Cretaceous Belemnites and Other Coleoids of the Cauvery Basin: A Historical Review and an Annotated Checklist of Known Species
A.P. Ippolitov, A. Vartak, Zoë E. Hughes, and B.G. Desai
13. Traces of Biotic Interactions on the Oysters from the Karai Formation, Cauvery Basin, South India: Paleoecological Implications
Sumanta Mallick
14. A Synoptic View of Vertebrate Palaeontological Research on the Cretaceous Deposits of Cauvery Basin, South India
Guntupalli V.R. Prasad, Harsha Dhiman, and Anjali Goswami
15. Short Note on the Early Cretaceous Flora of India
Sreepat Jain and Ahmed Awad Abdelhady
Section 4: Field Guide and Bibliography
16. Field Traverses: Cretaceous Sedimentary Outcrops in the Ariyalur and Perambalur Regions of the Cauvery Basin, India
R. Nagendra, A. Nallapa Reddy, Subir Sarkar, et al.
17. A Chronological Bibliography (1840–2023) of Geological Research on the Cauvery Basin Sediments (South India)
R. Nagendra, A. Nallapa Reddy, Santanu Banerjee, et al.
18. Navigating the Future Research of the Cauvery Basin: Challenges and Opportunities Ahead
Sreepat Jain
Biography
Sreepat Jain is a Professor at the Department of Applied Geology, Adama Science and Technology University, Adama, Ethiopia. With over two decades of teaching and research experience, Prof. Jain holds two doctorates, one from India and the other from the United States. Prof. Jain has been awarded the “TA Excellence in Teaching” for meritorious teaching in the United States and has also received the prestigious “Prof. S. K. Singh Memorial Gold Medal” for best research paper from the Palaeontological Society of India (India). He has authored three books, published several research articles in national and international peer-reviewed journals and serves as a reviewer for several international geoscience journals.
Nivedita Chakraborty is an Assistant Professor of Geology at West Bengal Educational Service, India. She received her Ph.D. from Jadavpur University, Kolkata. Her research interests include classical sedimentology, applied sedimentology, and basin analysis. She is interested in Cretaceous marine and non-marine sedimentation patterns, and their interaction with biota. Currently, she is studying palaeodepositional changes across the Permo-Triassic boundary in Eastern India. She has worked in various Phanerozoic and Proterozoic Indian Basins and published papers in peer-reviewed journals and books. She received the Best Presentation Award in the Young Scientist Category at the 3rd IPC-2017, China. She acted as a reviewer of multiple journals and volumes published by prominent academic publishers.
