Vegetational history and palaeoenvironment of Hirpur Locality-I, Lower Karewa, Kashmir

H.P. Gupta; Chhaya Sharma

doi:10.54991/jop.1988.1612

Authors

H.P. Gupta Birbal Sahni Institute of Palaeobotany, 53, University Road, Lucknow 226007, India
Chhaya Sharma Birbal Sahni Institute of Palaeobotany, 53, University Road, Lucknow 226007, India

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.54991/jop.1988.1612

Keywords:

Palynostratigraphy, Palaeoenvironment, Palaeovegetation, Lower Karewa (India)

Abstract

The present palynostratigraphical studies carried out on the exposed sediments of Hirpur Locality-I, lying under the earlier worked out Hirpur Locality-III, has revealed continued dominance of arboreal elements in the sequence depicting comparative preponderance of spruce and oak, although showing abrupt change in their values. The palynodata thus obtained has been interpreted to reconstruct the palaeovegetation pattern and to deduce the possible climatic fluctuation witnessed during the course of sedimentation of the 40 m thick lithocolumn. The pollen diagram has been divided into four pollen assemblage zones.

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Gupta HP, Sharma C & Yadav RR (MS). A new pollen type Arcicolpites hirpurensis gen. et sp. nov. from Hirpur Formation (Lower Karewa), Kashmir valley. Palaeobotanist (in Press).

Gupta HP, Sharma C, Dodia R, Mandavia C & Vora AB 1984a. A palynological interpretation of climatic changes in Kashmir (India) during the past three million years, in: Robert O. Whyte (Ed.)-Proc. Evolution of the East Asian environment 2: 553-568. Univ. of Hong Kong.

Gupta HP, Sharma C, Dodia R, Mandavia C & Vora AB 1984b. Palynostratigraphy and palaeoenvironments of Kashmir-Hirpur Loc.-III, in: D. P. Agrawal et al. (eds)-Climate and geology of Kashmir and Central Asia: Current trends in geology 6: 75-90. Today & Tomorrow's Printers & Publ., New Delhi.