Late Quaternary sea level and environmental changes from relic carbonate deposits of the western margin of India

Proceedings of the Indian Academy of Sciences, Earth and Planetary Sciences

Volumn 112, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 1-25

  Rao, V Purnachandra ^a   Rajagopalan, G ^b   Vora, K H ^a   Almeida, F ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF OCEANOGRAPHY   (India)

^b BIRBAL SAHNI INSTITUTE OF PALAEOBOTANY   (India)

Author keywords

Depositional environment; Late Quaternary sea level; Subsidence; Uplift; Western margin of India

Indexed keywords

CARBONATE PLATFORM; DEPOSITIONAL ENVIRONMENT; FORAMINIFERA; GLACIOEUSTACY; PALEOENVIRONMENT; QUATERNARY; SEA LEVEL CHANGE; SHALLOW WATER;

ARABIAN COAST; ARABIAN SEA; INDIA;

EID: 0037355367     PISSN: 02534126     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF02710040     Document Type: Article

References (59)

1. Adey W H 1986 Coralline algae as indicators of sea level; In: Sea level Research - A manual for the collection and evaluation of data (ed) O Van de Plasche (Free University, Amsterdam, Geobooks, Norwich) p. 229-280
2. Banse K 1968 Hydrography of the Arabian Sea shelf of India and Pakistan and effects on temporal fishes; Deep Sea Research 15 45-79
3. Bard E, Hamelin B and Fairbanks R G 1990 U/Th ages obtained by mass spectrometry in corals from Barbados: sea level during the past 130,000 years; Nature 345 405-408
4. 234U dating of Quaternary carbonate deposits of Saurashtra, India; Chemical Geology 79 65-82
5. 14C concentration during the last glacial period; Science 292 2453-2458
6. Blanchon P and Shaw J 1995 Reef-drowning during the last deglaciation: evidence for catastrophic sea level rise and ice sheet collapse; Geology 23 4-8
7. Borole D V, Rajagopalan G and Somayajulu B L K 1987 Radiometric ages of phosphorites off the west coast of India; Marine Geology 78 161-165
8. Bosence D W J 1985 The morphology and ecology of a mound-building coralline alga (Neogonialithon strictum) from the Florida Keys; Palaentology 28 189-206
9. Carballo J D, Land L S and Miser D E 1987 Holocene dolomitization of supratidal sediments by active tidal pumping, Sugarloaf Key, Florida; J. Sediment. Petrol. 57 153-165
10. Done T J 1982 Patterns in the distribution of coral communities across the central Great Barrier Reef; Coral Reefs 1 95-107
11. th International Coral Reef Congress, Tahiti 3 477-515
12. Dullo W Ch, Camoini G F, Blomeier D, Colonna M, Eisenhauer A, Faure G, Casanova J and Thomassin B A 1998 Morphology and sediments of the fore-slopes of Mayotte, Comoro Islands: direct observations from a submersible. Spec. Pubs. Int. Ass. Sediment. 25 219-236
13. Dutta K, Bhushan R and Somayajulu B L K 2001. ΔR correction values for the northern Indian Ocean; Radiocarbon 43 483-488
14. Fairbanks R G 1989 A 17,000 year glacio-eustatic sea level record: influence of glacial melting rates on the Younger Dryas event and deep-ocean circulation; Nature 342 637-642
15. Hashimi N H, Nigam R, Nair R R and Rajagopalan G 1995 Holocene sea level fluctuations on western Indian continental margin: An update; J. Geol. Soc. India 46 157-162
16. Hallock P and Schlager W 1986 Nutrient excess and the demise of coral reefs and carbonate platforms; Palaios 1 389-398
17. Hottinger L 1983 Neritic macroid genesis, an ecological approach; In: Coated grains (ed) Y Peryt (New York: Springer) p. 38-57
18. Illings L V 1954 Bahamian calcareous sands; AAPG Bull. 38 1-95
19. Kale V S and Rajaguru S N 1985 Neogene and Quaternary transgressional and regressional history of the west coast of India - An overview; Bull Deccan College Res Inst. 44 153-165
20. Kump L R and Hine A C 1986 Ooids as sea level indicators; In: Sea level Research: A manual for the collection and evaluation of data (ed) O Van de Plasche (Geobooks Norwich) p. 175-194
21. Labeyrie L D, Duplessy J C and Blanc P L 1987 Variations in mode of formation and temperature of oceanic deep waters over the past 125,000 years; Nature 327 477-482
22. Logan B W, Harding J L, Ahr W M, Williams J D and Snead R G 1969 Carbonate sediments and reefs, Yucatan Shelf, Mexico; AAPG Memoir 11 1-98
23. Loreau J P and Purser G H 1993 Distribution of ultrastructure of Holocene ooids in the Persian Gulf; In: The Persian Gulf (ed.) G H Purser (New York: Springer-Verlag) p. 279-328
24. Meldhal K H and Cutler A H 1992 Neotectonics and Taphonomy: Pleistocene Molluscan shell accumulations in the northern Gulf of California; Palaios 7 187-197
25. Merrill A S, Emery K O and Rubin M 1965 Ancient oyster shells on the Atlantic continental shelf; Science 147 398-400
26. Minnery G A 1990 C̀rustose coralline algae from the Flower Garden Banks, Northwestern Gulf of Mexico: Controls on distribution and growth morphology; J. Sediment. Petrol. 60 992-1007
27. Montaggioni L F 2000 Post-glacial reef growth; C R Acad Sci. Paris Sciences de la Terre et des Planets 331 319-330
28. Nair R R 1974 Holocene sea levels on the western continental shelf of India; Proc. Indian Acad. Sci. 79B 197-203
29. Nair R R 1975 Nature and origin of small scale topographic prominences on the western continental shelf of India; Indian J. Mar. Sci. 4 25-29
30. Nair R R and Hashimi N H 1980 Holocene climatic inferences from the sediments of the western Indian continental shelf; Proc. Indian Acad Sci. Sec. B 89 229-315
31. Nair R R and Pylee A 1968 Size distribution and carbonate content of the sediments of the western shelf of India; Bull. Nat. Inst. Sci. India 38 411-420
32. Nair R R, Hashimi N H and Gupta M V S 1979 Holocene limestones of part of the western continental shelf of India; J. Geol. Soc. India 20 17-23
33. Parkash B, Kumar S, Rao M S, Giri S C, Kumar C S, Gupta S and Srivastava P 2000 Holocene tectonic movements and stress fields in the western Gangetic plains; Curr. Sci. 79 438-449
34. Patterson R J and Kinsman D J 1982 Formation of diagenetic dolomite in coastal sabkha along Persian Gulf; AAPG Bull. 66 28-43
35. Plaziat J-CI and Perrin Ch 1992 Multikilometer-sized reefs built by foraminifera (Solenomeris) from the early Eocene of the Pyrenean domain (S. France, N. Spain): Palaeo ecologic relations with coral reefs; Palaeogeogr. Palaeoclimat. Palaeoecol. 96 195-231
36. Rajendran K, Rajendran C P, Thakkar M and Tuttle M P 2001 The 2001 Kutch (Bhuj) earthquake: Coseismic surface features and their significance; Curr. Sci. 80 1397-1405
37. Rao K L 1975 India's water wealth (New Delhi: Orient Longman) 255 pp.
38. Rao S R 1996 From Dwaraka to Kurukshetra; J. Marine Archaeol. 5/6 61-71
39. Rao V P and Lamboy M 1996 Genesis of apatite in the phosphatized limestones of the western continental shelf of India; Marine Geology 136 41-53
40. Rao V P and Wagle B G 1997 Geomorphology and surficial geology of the western continental shelf and upper slope of India: A review; Curr. Sci. 73 330-350
41. Rao V P, Veerayya M, Nair R R, Dupeuble P A and Lamboy M 1994 Late Quaternary Halimeda bioherms and aragonitic faecal pellet-dominated sediments on the carbonate platform of the western continental shelf of India; Marine Geology 121 293-315
42. Rao V P and Veerayya M 1996 Submarine terrace limestones from the continental slope off Saurashtra-Bombay: Evidence of late Quaternary neotectonic activity; Curr. Sci. 71 36-41
43. Rao V P, Veerayya M, Thamban M and Wagle B G 1996 Evidences of late Quaternary neotectonic acitivity and sea level changes along the western continental margin of India, Curr. Sci. 71 213-219
44. Rao V P, Montaggioni L, Vora K H, Almeida F and Rao K M 2002a Significance of the carbonate reefs of the south-western margin of India; Sediment. Geol. (in press)
45. Rao V P, Kessarkar P, Krumbein W E, Krajewski K P and Schneider R J 2002b Microbial Dolomite crust from the carbonate platform of the western margin of India; Sedimentology, (in press).
46. Reid R P and Macintyre I G 1988 Foraminiferal-algal nodules from the eastern Carribian: Growth history and implications on the value of nodules of palaeoenvironmental indicators; Palaios 3 424-436
47. Sarkar A, Ramesh R, Somayajulu B L K, Agnihotri R, Jull A J T and Burr G S 2000 High resolution Holocene monsoon record from the eastern Arabian Sea; Earth and Planetary Science Letters 177 209-218
48. Stuiver M, Reimer P J, Bard E, Beck J W, Burr G S, Hughen K A, Kromer B, McCormac F G, van der Plicht J and Spurkm M 1998. INTCAL 98 radiocarbon age calibration, 24,000-0 cal BP. Radiocarbon 40 1041-1083
49. Taberner C and Bosence D W J 1985 Ecological succession from corals to coralline algae in Eocene Patch reefs, Northern Spain; In: Paleoalgology: Contemporary Research and Applications (eds) D F Toomey and M H Nitecki (Berlin: Springer-Verlag), pp. 226-236
50. Thamban M, Rao V P, Schneider R R and Grootes P M 2001 Glacial to Holocene fluctuations in hydrography and productivity along the southwestern continental margin of India; Palaeogeogr. Palaeoclimat. Palaeoecol. 165 113-127
51. Van Campo E 1986 Monsoon fluctuations in two 20,000 yr BP: Oxygen isotope records off southwest India; Quat. Res. 26 376-388
52. Veron J E N 1986 Corals of Australia and the Indo-Pacific, (London: Angus and Robertson) 644 pp.
53. von Stackelberg U V 1972 Faziesverteilung in sedimentes Indich-Pakistanischen Komtinental-Randes; (Arabisches Meer), Meteor Forschungsgebn, Reiche C.9 1-73
54. Vora K H and Almeida F 1990 Submerged reef systems on the central western continental shelf of India; Marine Geology 91 255-262
55. Vora K H, Wagle B G, Veerayya M, Almeida F and Karisiddaiah S M 1996 A 1300 km long the western continental shelf of India: occurence and significance; Marine Geology 134 145-162
56. Vora K H, Gaur A S, Price D and Sundaresh 2002 Cultural sequence of Bet Dwarka island based on thermoluminescence dating; Curr. Sci. 82 1351-1356
57. Wagle B G, Vora K H, Karisiddaiah S M, Veerayya M and Almeida F 1994 Holocene submarine terraces on the western continental shelf of India: Implications for sea level changes; Marine Geology 117 207-225
58. Walter M R 1976 Stromatolites, Developments in Sedimentology 20 790 pp. (Amsterdam: Elsevier)
59. Winland H D 1969 Stability of calcium carbonate polymorphs in warm shallow seawater; J. Sediment. Petrol. 39 1579-1587