Stratigraphical Palaeontology

Stratigraphical Palaeontology - E.Neaverson

We are going to tell you through science of layers and biology of rocks that the past events on earth can at least be partially traced. Sediments are usually laid down in rivers, oceans and lakes as strata preserving hard and sometimes even soft and delicate parts of the life forms that can in turn be visualised as space-time slices. These preservations reveal many interesting features related to evolution of living creatures and their billions of descendents. Now, you can have a chance to think like who saw the world for the first time and how the present life forms were evolved.

We would try an effort to train your minds to ponder over such wonderful ideas by dividing the entire core course in to eight units of which the first one concerns definition, stratigraphic principles, classification, geological time scale and physiographic divisions of India. The second unit embraces Precambrian geology including Dharwar, Cuddapah, Vindhyan and Delhi supergroups. It also covers a brief idea of Palaeozoic succession of NW Himalayas, Triassic of Spiti, Mesozoic type section of Kutch and Rajasthan and Cretaceous of Tiruchirapalli. Type localities of Gondwana and Deccan trap are included in the third unit whereas fourth one incorporates Palaeogene and Neogene succession of Northwest Himalayas & Assam.