The paleogeographic significance of Aquilapollenites occurrence in Pakistan |
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| Authors: | Asrar M Khan Satish K Srivastava |
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| Institution: | aHydrocarbon Development Institute of Pakistan, 18, Sector H-9 Islamabad, Pakistan;bGeology Consultant, 3054 Blandford Drive, Rowland Heights, California 91748-4825, USA |
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| Abstract: | The occurrence of the genus Aquilapollenites in Upper Cretaceous and Neogene sediments of northwestern Pakistan is reported here. Aquilapollenites amplus, Aquilapollenites reductus, and Aquilapollenites sp. occur in the Maastrichtian palynomorph assemblage from an outcrop sample of the Mir Ali section, northern Waziristan. Aquilapollenites medeis in the Neogene Murgha Faqir Zai Formation of the Pishin Basin, Balochistan, is considered a reworked Cretaceous specimen. The Upper Cretaceous sediments of the Asian plate on the Tethys margin are considered to be the source of Aquilapollenites spp. in these samples. |
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| Keywords: | Aquilapollenites-pollen Maastrichtian Paleo-continents Paleogeography Pakistan |
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