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Paleopedology ofRamapithecus-bearing sediments, North India

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Es wird untersucht, inwieweit es für die Rekonstruktion des früheren Bildungsmilieus sinnvoll ist, in Verbindung mit anderen sedimentologischen Erscheinungen fossile Böden mit heranzuziehen, und zwar nach einer Analyse der Merkmale pedogenetischer Veränderungen in bestimmten Ablagerungen der Alluvialebenen in der Umgebung von Haritalyangar, Bilaspur, H. P., Indien, in denen die hominoiden PrimatenRamapithecus undDryopithecus gefunden worden sind. Die untersuchten alluvialen Paleoböden zeigen, verglichen mit der ursprünglichen Ablagerungsstruktur, Abweichungen in ihren Eigenschaften, die durch sekundäre pedogenetische Prozesse bestimmt sind.

Die Paleoböden der Nagri-Stufe von Haritalyangar sind eisenreiche tropische Böden oder schwächere Oxiböden, die in den typischen Toposequenzen der Alluvialebenen entstanden sind und die aufgrund ihrer verschiedenen Entfernung zu alten Flußläufen alle eine etwas unterschiedliche Vergangenheit widerspiegeln.

Abstract

The utility of using fossil soils in addition to other sedimentologic evidence in reconstructing past environments is considered with a preliminary analysis of the character of pedogenic alteration of selected floodplain deposits which have yielded the hominoid primatesRamapithecus andDryopithecus in the vicinity of Haritalyangar, District Bilaspur, H. P., India. The alluvial paleosols studied reflect variance of properties which are related to original depositional fabric modified by secondary pedogenic processes. The Nagri aged paleosols of Haritalyangar are ferruginous tropical soils or low-grade oxisols developed on typical floodplain toposequences, all reflecting somewhat varied histories as a function of proximity to ancient active stream courses.

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On considère ici la possibilité d'utiliser des sols fossiles en plus d'autres évidences sedimentologiques pour reconstruire les environnements du passé. On présente aussi une analyse préliminaire des caractéristiques de modifications pédogéniques de certains sédiments de plaines alluviales, qui ont livré les primates hominoïdesRamapithecus etDryopithecus, au voisinage de Haritalyangar, district de Bilaspur, H. P., Inde. Les paléosols alluviaux étudiés révèlent diverses propriétés caractéristiques de dé pôts originaux, modifiés par des processus pédogéniques secondaires. Les vieux paléosols de Nagri, aux environs de Haritalyangar, sont des oxisols peu évolués, formés sur des séquence topographique typique de plaines alluviales. Tous reflètent quelque peu des stages divers selon leur proximité d'anciens cours fluviatiles actifs.

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Проверили насколько является необходимы м для реконструкции прежн ей среды привлекать, нар яду с иными седиментологически ми проявлениями, и вмещающие окаманел ости древние почвы, и и менно после оценки педогенетиче ских изменений в известны х отложениях аллювия льной равнины, в которых у Haritalyangar'a, Bilaspur'a H.P., Индия, обнаружили останки гоминоидных примето в рамапитека и дриопи тека. Исследования древни х аллювиальных палеоп очв показало, что изме нения их характеристик по отношению к первичны м отложениям, вызваны вторичными педогенетическими процессами. Древние почвы яруса Н агри в Haritalyangar являются или же богатые железом тропические почвы, или же слабо оки сленные почвы, возникшие в типичных свитах алл ювиальной равнины и, в результате их близости к древним речным русл ам, могут до некоторой степени отражать их различно е прошлое.

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    Johnson, G.D. Paleopedology ofRamapithecus-bearing sediments, North India. Geol Rundsch 66, 192–216 (1977). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01989572

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