HEMANTA SINGH RAJKUMAR
Articles written in Journal of Earth System Science
Volume 123 Issue 2 March 2014 pp 413-420
Hemanta Singh Rajkumar Hendrik Klein
Two pes imprints of a perissodactyl mammal constituting a single step of a trackway have recently been discovered in Oligocene Flysch deposits of the Barail Group in Manipur, India. The tridactyl, mesaxonic imprints (∼7 cm in length) show strong similarities to footprints known from the Paleogene of China and can be attributed to a tapiroid, rhinocerotoid or equoid trackmaker. This is the first record of perissodactyl footprints from the Lower Oligocene of India and the first evidence of mammals in the Barail Group of the age. Remarkable is the occurrence in a marginal marine setting, whereas other known perissodactyl footprints from the Eocene–Oligocene in particular from North America, Europe and China come from fluvio-lacustrine strata.
Volume 131 All articles Published: 20 April 2022 Article ID 0103 Research Article
PRAMOD KUMAR KSHETRIMAYUM LAKSHMIRANI DEVI PARTHA PRATIM CHAKRABORTY HEMANTA SINGH RAJKUMAR
In western Manipur, India, a ${\sim}$765 m thick dominantly fine-grained succession of the Late Eocene–Early Oligocene Laisong Formation, constituted of siltstone-silty-shale heterolithic units at its lower part and thickly bedded sandstones in the upper part, allowed documentation of subaqueous part of a tidal delta.The abundant incidence of features including lenticular, wavy bedding, starved ripple trains, syn-sedimentary deformation, reactivation and erosional surfaces, double-mud drapes, tangential bottom setcontact, rip-up mud clasts bear tell-tale evidence in favour of tidal modulations. Furthermore, a prominent thickening- and coarsening-up progradational facies stacking motif is correlated as signature for tide-dominated delta. From process-based facies and facies succession analysis, five different subaqueous environments of delta were delineated which include prodelta, terminal distributary channel, distal delta front, proximal delta front sheet and proximal delta front lobe in order of stratigraphic superposition. The river-fed sediments were extensively reworked by accentuated tidal currents in an embayed coastline, developed along a narrow, elongated ocean basin bordered by the Indian plate on its west and Burmese micro-plate in the east. A local-scale subsidence and sea-level rise is inferred as trigger for the Laisong tidal delta development in the backdrop of its Late Eocene–Early Oligocene time frame that otherwise witnessed large-scale growth of east Antarctic ice sheet and regional scale fall in sea-level.
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