A lithostratigraphic revision and palaeoenvironmental assessment of the Cretaceous System exposed in the onshore Cauvery Basin, Southern India

Cretaceous Research

Volumn 22, Issue 6, 2001, Pages 743-762

  Sundaram, R ^a   Henderson, R A ^b   Ayyasami, K ^a   Stilwell, J D ^b  

^a GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF INDIA   (India)

^b JAMES COOK UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Cauvery basin; Cretaceous lithostratigraphy; Eustatic cycles; India; Palaeoclimate; Sedimentary petrogenesis

Indexed keywords

BIOSTRATIGRAPHY; CRETACEOUS; EUSTACY; LITHOSTRATIGRAPHY; PALEOCLIMATE; PALEOENVIRONMENT; PETROGENESIS;

CAUVERY BASIN; INDIA; TAMIL NADU;

ALBIA; EQUUS CABALLUS; INVERTEBRATA;

EID: 0035727717     PISSN: 01956671     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/cres.2001.0287     Document Type: Article

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