Recent years have witnessed remarkable progress in the science of microfossils. Major age revisions of many of the so called unfossilifereous strata were made with the discovery of microfossils. The microfossils have become indispensable tools in paleoceanographic studies. The systematic micropaleontology has gradually given way to interpretative micropaleontology and has completely changed our perception of this science. This book containing 26 peer reviewed papers discusses application of microfossils in stratigraphy and paleoceanography. The papers dealing with stratigraphy cover geological time from Proterozoic to Cenozoic while the papers on paleoceanography cover areas like deep sea hiatuses, global carbon cycles, ocean circulation and related climate changes, extraterrestrial events, upwelling and productivity etc. The papers in this volume offer solid evidence of recent progress in application of micropaleontology in stratigraphy and paleoceanography.

Preface / List of Contributors / Meso-Neo Proterozoic Organic walled microfossils from the Vindhayan Sediments of Son Valley, Madhya Pradesh, India / Age of the Vindhyan Supergroup of Central India: An exposition of biochronology vs radiochronology/ Acritarchs, their occurrence and significance in the Yong Limestone Formation of the Tethyan Garhwal Himalaya, Uttaranchal, India / Palynostratigraphy and depositional environment of Lower Gondwana sediments in Raigarh Basin, Chhattisgarh, India / Biostratigraphic significance of megaspores from the Triassic sequence of Peninsular India / Santonian in India / Microfloral remains from Deccan Intertrappeans: Implications on Cretaceous- Tertiary (K-T) transition and paleoecology / Paleeocene vertebrate fauna from the Fatehgarh Formation of Barmer District, Rajasthan, Western India / Palynostratigraphy and paleoenvironment of the Subathu Formation of Dharampur Area, Solan District, Himachal Pradesh / Occurrence and age significance of Planorotalites palmerae (Cushman and Bermudez) in the Dillai Parbat area of Assam, NE India / Stratigraphic, paleobiogeographic and paleoenvironmental significance of Mesophyllum, a nongeniculate coralline alga from Western Kachchh (Middle Eocene to Oligocene), India / Holocene sea level changes and neotectonism inferred from Beach Rocks of South Andaman, Bay of Bengal / Progress in Cenozoic Radiolarian research: The Indian Context / Patterns of Radiolarian species diversity in the Early Neogene of Andaman-Nicobar Islands / Planktic Marine Diatom Events of the Oligocene and earliest Miocene in the Equatorial Pacific Ocean / Guembelitria Booms – Environmental catastrophes index / Discovery of Early Miocene Microtektite horizons in the Northern Indian Ocean DSDP Site 216: Geological implications / Astronomic and oceanographic influences on global carbon cycling across the Oligocene/Miocene Boundary / Response of Miocene deep sea benthic foraminifera to paleoceanographic changes at DSDP site 237 (Mascarene Plateau, Northwest Indian Ocean/ Neogene Planktic biostratigraphy on the Pacific coast of South America and its paleocenographic implications / Episodes of weakening of Leeuwin Current (Southeast Indian Ocean) during Quaternary: Isotopic and planktic foraminiferal evidences / Planktic foraminiferal evidence for Neogene deep sea hiatuses in the Northern Indian Ocean / Significance of stable oxygen (d18O) and carbon (d13C) isotopic compositions of individual foraminifera (Orbulina universa d’ Orbigny) in sediment core from eastern Arabian Sea / Symbiosis, calcification and stable isotopes in foraminifera: A review / Early Neogene calcareous nannofossils from Laccam Point Section, Havelock Island, Ritchie’s Archipelago, Andaman Sea / Distribution pattern of benthic foraminifera off Krishna-Godawari delta and their environmental significance.

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