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Overview on the middle to upper Jurassic sedimentary succession of Gangta Bet in the Kachchh basin, western India, with special emphasis on its lithostratigraphy, biostratigraphy, and palaeoenvironment

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The Jurassic succession of Gangta Bet in the Kachchh basin of western India comprises around 130 m of mostly siliciclastic rocks. The strata belong to the Gangta Member of the Gadhada Formation and are herein sub-divided into four units: the Gangta sandstone beds, the lower silty sandstone beds, the upper silty sandstone beds, and the Gangta ammonite beds. These units can be separated by three marker horizons: the Brachiopod bed, the Gangta Conglomerate Bed, and the Gervillella Bed. Ammonites indicate an Oxfordian age for the upper half of the succession, but the scarcity of identifiable fossils in its basal part so far prevented precise biostratigraphic assignments. The shallow-water sediments can be interpreted as parasequences as a result of minor sea-level changes. Deposition took place close to the palaeo-coastline at water depths around the fair-weather wave-base.

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  1. Institut für Geowissenschaften, Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel, Ludewig-Meyn-Straβe 10, 24118, Kiel, Germany

    Matthias Alberti

  2. Department of Geology, University of Rajasthan, Jaipur, 302 004, India

    Matthias Alberti & Dhirendra K. Pandey

  3. GeoZentrum Nordbayern, Fachgruppe PaläoUmwelt, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Loewenichstraße 28, 91054, Erlangen, Germany

    Franz T. Fürsich

  4. Geological Survey of India, Kolkata, 700 016, India

    Debahuti Mukherjee

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Alberti, M., Fürsich, F.T., Pandey, D.K. et al. Overview on the middle to upper Jurassic sedimentary succession of Gangta Bet in the Kachchh basin, western India, with special emphasis on its lithostratigraphy, biostratigraphy, and palaeoenvironment. J Geol Soc India 89, 259–270 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12594-017-0598-7

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