Proceedings of XXIII Indian Colloquium on Micropaleontology and Stratigraphy and International Symposium on Global Bioevents in Earth’s History

Contents: Foreword. I. Applications: 1. Micropaleontology in multi-disciplinary research: applications to OAE2 and KTB/G. Keller. 2. Larger foraminiferal biostratigraphy of early paleogene sections in India/A. Govindan. 3. Micropaleontological response to mid-late creataceous oceanic anoxic events/M.B. Hart. 4. Sequence stratigraphic analysis of the mixed siliciclastic carbonate sediments middle jurassic of the patcham island, Kachchh, Western India: an ichnological approach/S.J. Patel, J.K. Joseph and N.Y. Bhatt. 5. Sequence stratigraphy of late cretaceous successions in the Ramnad sub-basin, Cauvery Basin, India/A. N. Reddy, B.C. Jaiprakash, M.V. Rao, L. Chidambaram and K.V. Bhaktavatsala. 6. Stratigraphic classifications and advances in microfossil studies: implications for hydrocarbon exploration in India/D.S.N. Raju. II. Paleoecology –Recent: 1. Distribution of recent benthic ostracoda off Rameswaram, Palk strait, Tamil Nadu, South East Coast of India/K. Baskar, S.G.D. Sridhar, S.M. Hussain, A. Solai and R. Kalaivanan.  2. Distribution of Benthic ostracoda in the surface and sub-surface sediments of backwaters of Ernakulam, Kerala, Southwest coast of India : Implications on microenvironment/S.M. Hussain, E.C. Kuleen, K. Jisha, K. Elumalai, and G. Ravi. 3. Sediment characteristics and forminiferal distribution in the bet zone of the great Rann of Kutchchh, Western India/N. Khonde, D.M. Maurya, A. Das and L.S. Chamya. 4. Effect of temperature and salinity on stable isotopic composition of benthic foraminiferal tests: culture experiments on shallow water species/R.K. Sujata, V.N. Linshy, Rajeev Saraswat and Rajiv Nigam. III. Global Bioevents-pe and KTB: 1. Paleoclimate and paleoenvironment of the Naredi formation early Eocene, Kutch, Gujarat, India/H. Khozyem, T. Adatte, G. Keller, Jorge E. Spangenberg, N. Saravanan and S. Bajpai. 2. Biostratigraphy and foraminiferal Paleoecology of the early Eocene Naredi formation, SW Kutch, India/G. Keller, H. Khozyem, T. Adatte and J. Spangenberg. 3. Strontium Isotope stratigraphy of the Naredi formation, Kutch/D. Anwar, A.K. Choudhary and P.K. Sarawati. 4. Palaeoenvironmental significance of rectilinear benthic foraminifera in the middle Eocene section of matanomadh sub-basin, Kutch/S. Khanolkar and P.K. Saraswati. 5. Early Paleocene planktic foraminifers and stratigraphy, Jaisalmer Basin, Rajasthan/P. Kalia, Swapna Rabha and Rokosuno Kintso. 6. Paleocene to early Eocene planktonic foraminifera of the Pondicherry Area, South India/N. Malarkodi, Chingakham Usharani Devi and C.S. Bhargava Sharma. 7. Multiproxy evidence of main Deccan trap pulse near the cretaceous tertiary boundary/T. Adatte and G. Keller. 8. Deccan continental flood basalt eruption terminated Indian dinosaurs before cretaceous paleogene boundary/D.M. Mohabey and B. Samant. 9. Aquilapollenites pollen from Deccan intertrappean sediments: age implications/B. Samant, Deepali Thakre and D.M. Mohabey. 10. Palaeoecology and affinity of ostracod fauna from the classic localities of Lameta formation of Jabalpur, Madhya Pradesh, India/S.C. Khosla, A.S. Rathore, M.L. Nagori and S.R. Jakhar. 11. Terminal mastrichtian age calcareous nannofossils preceding the K/T mass extinction from the Ariyalur formation, Vridhachalam area, South India/Jyotsana Raj, J. Malarkodi and N. Abha. IV. Biodiversity and stratigraphy in deep time: 1. Forminiferal composition and biostratigraphy of middle to late Jurassic sequence, Ler Dome, Kutch/A. Talib and S.M. Sharique Faisal. 2. Significance of planktic foraminifera across the cenomanian turonian boundary in Southern India/R. Venkatachalapathy and G. Shanmugavalli. 3. Late Permian palnofossils from the Pali formation, South Rewa basin, Madhya Pradesh, India/Ram Awatar and Saurabh Gautam. 4. Neoproterozoic chert permineralized silicified microbiota from the carbonate facies of Raipur Group, Chhattisgarh basin, India: their biostratigraphic significance/V.K. Singh and R. Babu. 5. An evaluation of carbonaceous metaphytes from the proterozoic Singhora group of Chhattisgarh Supergroup, India/R. Babu and V.K. Singh.