Major Boundary Problems
1. Write explanatory notes on Cretaceous-Eocene boundary problems. 1979
2. Describe the extinctions that occurred at the close of the Cretaceous. Were the land plants similarly affected? Do fossil records reveal any extinction? 1981
3. What is the oldest recorded undoubted organic remain? Write what you know of early Precambrian times. 1981
4. Answer in 200 words: No other geological formation shows a more divergent facies of deposits in different areas in India than the Cretaceous. 1982
5. Answer in 200 words: Life in the Precambrian. 1983
6. Answer in 200 words: Permo-Carboniferous boundary. 1983
7. Answer in 200 words: Cretaceous-Eocene boundary. 1984
8. Discuss in detail the upper Paleozoic succession on Kashmir. Also write a note on the problem of Permian Triassic boundary in general. 1985
9. What are the problems concerning Early Precambrian geochronology? How do you solve them? 1985
10. Answer in 200 words: Permian-Triassic boundary. 1986
11. Answer in 200 words: Neogene-Quaternary boundary. 1988
12. Discuss Cretaceous-Eocene boundary. 1989
13. Write notes on P/T boundary in 200 words. 1990
14. Describe the Cretaceous rocks of South India. 1993
15. Write explanatory notes on Pleistocene Glaciation. 1995
16. Write notes in 200 words on Cretaceous-Eocene boundary. 1996
17. Write detailed notes on Marine transgression in Permocarboniferous. 1996
18. Write explanatory notes on K/T boundary. 1997
19. What is marine transgression? Discuss the Cretaceous rocks of Trichinapalli with special reference to their fossil contents. 1998
20. Write critical notes in about 200 words on: Boundary problems in Indian Stratigraphy. 1999
21. Write stratigraphic notes on Geological succession and fauna of the Cretaceous formations of Narmada Valley. 1999
22. Which are the most controversial stratigraphic boundaries? 2000
23. On which age level (in million years) is the Precambrian-Cambrian boundary placed? What are the Cambrian fauna? Are they found in the Indian subcontinent? If so, where? 2001
24. Answer in 200 words: Pleistocene Glaciation. 2003
25. Write about Cambrian-Precambrian boundary. 2005
26. Describe the K-T boundary succession in India. 2006
27. Write about Cretaceous-Tertiary Boundary. 2007
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FUNDAMENTALS OF HISTORICAL GEOLOGY AND STRATIGRAPHY OF INDIA BY-RAVINDRA KUMAR PAGE NO.-
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geological boundary- 1-precambrian-cambrian(PC-C boundary) 2-PERMIAN-TRISSIC BOUNDARY 3CRETACEOUS-PALEOCENE BO..(K-T OR K-Pg) 4
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