New record of Bathonian-Callovian calcareous nannofossils in the eastern Karakoram block: a possible clue to understanding the dextral offset along the Karakoram Fault

• Published in: Terra nova (Oxford, England) Vol. 17; no. 2; pp. 149 - 157
• Main Authors: Upadhyay, Rajeev, Rai, Jyotsana, Sinha, Anshu K
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Oxford, UK Blackwell Science Ltd 01.04.2005; Blackwell Publishing Ltd
• Subjects: Ammonoidea; Fossils; Geological time; Geology; Sediments; Watznaueria; Karakoram Range; Asia; India

We report the first record of Bathonian–Callovian calcareous nannofossils from a marine sedimentary sequence of the eastern Karakoram block, in northern India. The calcareous mudstones and packstones, occasionally bearing red chert nodules, yielded calcareous nanofossils and Middle Jurassic Choffati...