Abstract
Radiocarbon dating of carbonized wood samples from three sediment cores from the inner continental shelf off Taingapatnam, in the southwestern coast of India, indicates ages in the bracket 8400-9400 YBP. These radiometric ages correlate well with the ages of carbonized wood from inner continental shelf off Ponnani, Kerala and Karwar, Karnataka. The occurrence of carbonized wood in widely spread offshore areas probably represents a regional transgressive event in the west coast which resulted in submergence and destruction of coastal mangroves. The rate of sedimentation in the study area varies between 0.12 and 0.37 mm/yr, much lower than those reported from shelf areas north of Mangalore. The slow accumulation of sediments in the southern parts of the western continental shelf of India, as exemplified from the present study, may be due to very poor discharge and low bed load sediments of the west-flowing small rivers of this part of the peninsula and low concentration of suspended particulate matter in them. (author). 24 refs., 2 tabs., 2 figs.
Nambiar, A R;
[1]
Rajagopalan, G
[2]
- Geological Survey of India, Mangalore (India)
- Birbal Sahni Inst. of Paleobotany, Lucknow (India)
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Nambiar, A R, and Rajagopalan, G.
Radiocarbon dates of sediment cores from inner continental shelf off Taingapatnam, southwest coast of India.
India: N. p.,
1995.
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Nambiar, A R, & Rajagopalan, G.
Radiocarbon dates of sediment cores from inner continental shelf off Taingapatnam, southwest coast of India.
India.
Nambiar, A R, and Rajagopalan, G.
1995.
"Radiocarbon dates of sediment cores from inner continental shelf off Taingapatnam, southwest coast of India."
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@misc{etde_100065,
title = {Radiocarbon dates of sediment cores from inner continental shelf off Taingapatnam, southwest coast of India}
author = {Nambiar, A R, and Rajagopalan, G}
abstractNote = {Radiocarbon dating of carbonized wood samples from three sediment cores from the inner continental shelf off Taingapatnam, in the southwestern coast of India, indicates ages in the bracket 8400-9400 YBP. These radiometric ages correlate well with the ages of carbonized wood from inner continental shelf off Ponnani, Kerala and Karwar, Karnataka. The occurrence of carbonized wood in widely spread offshore areas probably represents a regional transgressive event in the west coast which resulted in submergence and destruction of coastal mangroves. The rate of sedimentation in the study area varies between 0.12 and 0.37 mm/yr, much lower than those reported from shelf areas north of Mangalore. The slow accumulation of sediments in the southern parts of the western continental shelf of India, as exemplified from the present study, may be due to very poor discharge and low bed load sediments of the west-flowing small rivers of this part of the peninsula and low concentration of suspended particulate matter in them. (author). 24 refs., 2 tabs., 2 figs.}
journal = []
issue = {11}
volume = {68}
journal type = {AC}
place = {India}
year = {1995}
month = {Jun}
}
title = {Radiocarbon dates of sediment cores from inner continental shelf off Taingapatnam, southwest coast of India}
author = {Nambiar, A R, and Rajagopalan, G}
abstractNote = {Radiocarbon dating of carbonized wood samples from three sediment cores from the inner continental shelf off Taingapatnam, in the southwestern coast of India, indicates ages in the bracket 8400-9400 YBP. These radiometric ages correlate well with the ages of carbonized wood from inner continental shelf off Ponnani, Kerala and Karwar, Karnataka. The occurrence of carbonized wood in widely spread offshore areas probably represents a regional transgressive event in the west coast which resulted in submergence and destruction of coastal mangroves. The rate of sedimentation in the study area varies between 0.12 and 0.37 mm/yr, much lower than those reported from shelf areas north of Mangalore. The slow accumulation of sediments in the southern parts of the western continental shelf of India, as exemplified from the present study, may be due to very poor discharge and low bed load sediments of the west-flowing small rivers of this part of the peninsula and low concentration of suspended particulate matter in them. (author). 24 refs., 2 tabs., 2 figs.}
journal = []
issue = {11}
volume = {68}
journal type = {AC}
place = {India}
year = {1995}
month = {Jun}
}