1994-95 - Birbal Sahni Institute of Palaeobotany

1994--95
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Gangapur beds is to be continued for building-up tbe floras tbrough ages. The investigations
will help to understand tbe evolutionary lineages and significance of plant fossils in
stratigraphy. The ultrastructural studies of plant parts - cuticles, seeds, megaspore, etc.
are also planned which will facilitate tbe taxonomic placement and also tracing tbe affinity
witb tbe parent plant group. The efforts for palynodating of coal-bearing sediments in
Rajmahal, Panagarh, Deocha-Pachami areas, Raniganj, Sohagpur, Pali-Parsora, Tatapani­
Ramkola, Kotbagudem and Satpura Basin of peninsular India are to be made which have a
bearing on coal exploration. Studies on Spiti Himalaya, peri-Gondwana and Arunachal
Pradesh will be carried out to correlate tbe marine and non-marine palynological assemblages
as well as plant megafossils. Such study has immense value for chronostratigraphy
of non-marine sequences.
Cenozoic vegetation and plant biogeography are planned to be studied in tbe Deccan
Intertrappean sediments in Madbya Pradesh and also in tbe Tertiary sediments from Assam,
Bihar, Bengal, Kerala, Rajastban, Himachal Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh and Gujarat. Likewise,
the studies of microfossils, Le., phytoplank1on are to be continued for tbeir biostratigraphical
aspects in Cauvery Basin and Andaman and Nicobar islands.
The flora and vegetational pattern in Quaternary sediments will be studied in Silent
Valley, soutb India, Spiti Valley, Himachal Pradesh and Garhwal Himalaya. Studies in tbe
mangrove vegetation from Chilka Lake, Mahanadi delta are to be continued. The efforts
will be made to develop climatically responding tree ring chronologies. Analysis of tbe
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