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22nd Intern ammonites bands basal beds are named Biswas Blanford Broch Bull calcareous Cambay Cambay basin clays colour Cong conglomerates considered equivalent consists essentially consti constitutes the youngest correlated Cretaceous Cuddapah Deccan Traps Dharwar dolomites Eocene exposed Fermor ferous formation constitutes formation is named fossiliferous fossils Geochron Geol Geological gneisses Gond Gondwana granite grey grits Group and consists group is named Gupta Hayden Heron hills Himalaya India IUGS Journ Kaimur Kashmir King Kumaun Kurnool Kutch L. P. and Evans lime limestones Lower Madhya Pradesh Mathur mation is named Medlicott micaceous Oldham overlies phyllites Precambrian quart quartzites ranges in age Robinson rocks S. V. and Sharma sand sandstones Sarkar schists Semri Group series is named shales Shali siltstones Simla Singhbhum sists Siwalik slates Spiti Stage stones Supergroup Symp thick succession tion constitutes town Triassic tutes unconformably Valdiya valley village Vindhyan volcanic yielded youngest unit zites zone