Skip to main content
SpringerLink
Log in

Depositional environment of the Krol Group of the Nainital area and its impact on the stromatolites

  • Published:
Proceedings of the Indian Academy of Sciences - Earth and Planetary Sciences Aims and scope Submit manuscript

Abstract

Depositional environment of the Krol group varied temporally from subtidal in the Manora to intertidal in the Sleepy Hollow times. The conditions that succeeded were peritidal in the Ayarpatta and supratidal in the Narainnagar times. These conditions were the main controlling factors in the growth and development of the algal stromatolites. The Manora formation, due to subtidal conditions, and the Sleepy Hollow formation, due to detrital influx, are almost devoid of stromatolites. The carbonates of the Ayarpatta formation representing a peritidal complex possess columnar and oncolitic stromatolites, while the sediments of the Narainnagar formation characterized by supratidal features contain blistered, domal and crinkled-laminar forms. The types and sizes of stromatolites therefore are governed by the depositional conditions prevailing in the sedimentary basin.

This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.

Access this article

Log in via an institution

Price excludes VAT (USA)
Tax calculation will be finalised during checkout.

Instant access to the full article PDF.

Institutional subscriptions

Similar content being viewed by others

References

  • Auden J B 1934Rec. Geol. Surv. India 67 357

    Google Scholar 

  • Awasthi N 1970Contrib. Mineral. Petrol. 28 198

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Bagati T N and Kharkwal A D 1979Bull. Indian Geol. Assoc. 12 43

    Google Scholar 

  • Bhargava O N 1979J. Geol. Soc. India 20 7

    Google Scholar 

  • Bhargava A K and Singh I B 1980J. Palaeontol. Soc. India 25 26

    Google Scholar 

  • Bhatia S B 1975Bull. Indian Geol. Assoc. 8 243

    Google Scholar 

  • Bhatia S B 1980 inStratigraphy and correlation of the Lesser Himalayan formations (ed.) K S Valdiya (Delhi: Hind Pub. Corpn.) p. 79

    Google Scholar 

  • Bhattacharya S C and Niyogi D 1971Himalayan Geol. 1 178

    Google Scholar 

  • Brock T D 1976 inStromatolites (ed.) M R Walter (Amsterdam: Elsevier) p. 141

    Google Scholar 

  • Davis R A Jr 1975 inTidal Deposits (ed.) R N Ginsburg (Berlin: Springer-Verlag) p. 299

    Google Scholar 

  • Folk R L 1970 Abstr. Prog. Geol. Soc. America, Annu. Meet. Vol 2 p. 552

    Google Scholar 

  • Fuchs G and Sinha A K 1974Himalayan Geol. 4 563

    Google Scholar 

  • Gansser A 1974 The Himalayan Tethys: Estratto Dalla Rivista-Italiana di Palaeontologiee Stratigraphie, Mem. XIV pp. 393–411

  • Gundu Rao C 1970Publ. Cent. Adv. Stud. Geol. 7 127

    Google Scholar 

  • Hagan G M and Logan B W 1975in Tidal deposits (ed.) R N Ginsburg (Berlin: Springer-Verlag) p. 215

    Google Scholar 

  • Kharkwal A D and Bagati T N 1974Bull. Indian Geol. Assoc. 7 p. 35

    Google Scholar 

  • Kharkwal A D 1975Himalayan Geol. 5 469

    Google Scholar 

  • Kharkwal A D 1976N. Jb. Miner. Mh. 4 162

    Google Scholar 

  • Kumar A 1980Geophytology 10 265

    Google Scholar 

  • Kumar A 1981 inPhanerozoic stromatolites, (ed.) C Monty (Berlin: Springer-Verlag) p. 36

    Google Scholar 

  • Logan B W, Rezak R and Ginsburg R N 1964J. Geol. 72 68

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Misra S B 1979 Sedimentary structures in the Krol Formation of Nainital area, Kumaun Himalaya (abs.): Indian Assoc. Sed. 2nd Conv. Mysore

  • Misra S B 1982 Ph. D. Thesis, Kumaun University, Nainital

    Google Scholar 

  • Misra S B 1983aPubl. Cent. Adv. Stud. Geol. 9 1

    Google Scholar 

  • Misra S B 1983aHimalayan Res. Dev. 2 57

    Google Scholar 

  • Raaben M E 1978 The stromatolites in the Himalayas (abs.): 9th Seminar, Him. Geol., Dehradun, p. 26

  • Reineck H E 1975 inTidal deposits, (ed.) R Ginsburg (Berlin: Springer-Verlag) p. 5

    Google Scholar 

  • Rupke J 1974Sediment. Geol. 11 81

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Serebryakov S N 1976 inStromatolites (ed.) M R Walter (Amsterdam: Elsevier) p. 613

    Google Scholar 

  • Singh I B and Rai V 1977Curr. Sci. 46 736

    Google Scholar 

  • Singh I B 1978Himalayan Geol. 8 633

    Google Scholar 

  • Singh I B, Bhargava A K and Rai V 1980J. Goel. Soc. India 21 232

    Google Scholar 

  • Valdiya K S 1975J. Geol. Soc. India 16 119

    Google Scholar 

  • Valdiya K S (ed.) 1980a inStratigraphy and correlation of the lesser Himalayan formations (Delhi: Hind. Pub. Corpn.) p. 1

    Google Scholar 

  • Valdiya K S 1980bJ.Geol. Soc. India 21 97

    Google Scholar 

  • Walker T R 1974Geol. Soc. Am. Bull. 85 633

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Woods P J and Brown R G 1975 inTidal deposits, (ed.) R N Ginsburg (Berlin: Springer-Verlag) p. 223

    Google Scholar 

Download references

Author information

Authors and Affiliations

  1. Department of Geology, Kumaun University, 263 001, Nainital, India

    S. B. Misra

Authors
  1. S. B. Misra
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

Rights and permissions

Reprints and permissions

About this article

Cite this article

Misra, S.B. Depositional environment of the Krol Group of the Nainital area and its impact on the stromatolites. Proc. Indian Acad. Sci. (Earth Planet Sci.) 93, 447–464 (1984). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02843261

Download citation

  • Issue Date:

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02843261

Keywords

Search

Navigation