Evidence of the Permian marginal marine sedimentation recorded in sub-surface drill cores, Lower Gondwana successions, southern India

Saha, Abhirup; Chakrabarty, Snehasis; Bhattacharya, Bishakh

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“…Mud drapes within the cross‐strata bundles are developed during the pause phases of tidal currents (Allen, 1982). Similar strata bundles and cross‐laminae within thinly‐ bedded sandstone mudstone interbeds have been reported from Mississippian tidal‐flat facies (Wescott, 1982), the Curtis Formation, Utah (Kreisa & Moiola, 1986), Permian Lower Gondwana lithounits in eastern and southern peninsular India (B. Bhattacharya et al, 2012, 2018, 2021; B. Bhattacharya & Banerjee, 2015; B. Bhattacharya & Saha, 2020; Saha et al, 2022), Late Cretaceous Nimar Sandstone from central India (B. Bhattacharya & Jha, 2014; Jha et al, 2017), Eocene Hazad member in Cambay basin, western India (Jaiswal & Bhattacharya, 2018) and the Talchir Formation of Raniganj Basin and Talchir Basin (H. N. Bhattacharya & Bhattacharya, 2006, 2010). Such laterally and vertically accreted tidal bundles attest to their development in the middle‐upper intertidal‐flat environment (B. Bhattacharya & Banerjee, 2015; H. N. Bhattacharya & Bhattacharya, 2006; Kreisa & Moiola, 1986; Saha et al, 2022).…”

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“…Bhattacharya & Jha, 2014;Jha et al, 2017), Eocene Hazad member in Cambay basin, western India (Jaiswal & Bhattacharya, 2018) and the Talchir Formation of Raniganj Basin and Talchir Basin (H. N. Bhattacharya & Bhattacharya, 2006, 2010. Such laterally and vertically accreted tidal bundles attest to their development in the middle-upper intertidal-flat environment (B. Bhattacharya & Banerjee, 2015; H. N. Bhattacharya & Bhattacharya, 2006;Kreisa & Moiola, 1986;Saha et al, 2022).…”

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“…Bhattacharya & Banerjee, 2015;B. Bhattacharya & Saha, 2020;Saha et al, 2022), Late Cretaceous Nimar Sandstone from central India (B. Bhattacharya & Jha, 2014;Jha et al, 2017), Eocene Hazad member in Cambay basin, western India (Jaiswal & Bhattacharya, 2018) and the Talchir Formation of Raniganj Basin and Talchir Basin (H. N. Bhattacharya & Bhattacharya, 2006, 2010.…”

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“…Gradual fining‐up of the lithounits under marine influences manifests a waning of energy with the consequent deepening of the basin. The presence of tidal‐bundles, mud‐flaser in fine‐grained sandstone/siltstone, sand lenses within mudstone as lenticular bedding and the existence of mud drapes in FA‐I‐1 manifest upward increase of the interactions of tidal currents in shallow tidal realm (B. Bhattacharya et al, 2012, 2018; Boersma, 1969; Bull & Cas, 1989; Coleman & Gagliano, 1965; H. D. Johnson & Baldwin, 1986; Kreisa & Moiola, 1986; Saha et al, 2022).…”

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Implications of Late Palaeozoic postglacial marine transgressive‐regressive (T‐R) cycles recorded in the Talchir Formation, Son Valley Basin, peninsular India: A sequence stratigraphic paradigm

Varshney

Bhattacharya

2022

Geological Journal

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The signature of Late palaeozoic glaciation, a pan‐Gondwanaland palaeoclimatic event, is recorded in the Talchir Formation (Late Carboniferous to Early Permian), the basal‐most litho‐unit within the Gondwana Supergroup (Late Carboniferous–Early Cretaceous) in peninsular India. About 200 m thick sedimentary succession of the Talchir Formation, exposed in the Hasdeo River section in the Son Valley Basin, Central India, manifests signatures of deposition by melting of glaciers near to the ice‐grounding line. Evidence of glacial influences is prevalent in the lower‐middle part of the succession and represented by glacial tillites with faceted/striated gravels and bullet‐shaped clasts, dropstones and ice‐rafted debris (IRD), associated with various sediment gravity flow deposits. In the middle‐upper part of the succession, records of post‐glacial marine incursions are preserved as thick sandstone and sandstone‐mudstone heteroliths of a shallow marine shore‐shelf depositional regime. These are characterized by abundant tidal and wave signatures, with marine bivalve fossils and trace fossils of marine invertebrates. The upward decrease in size and abundance of the IRDs indicates a gradual decrease in glacial influences, with landward incursion of the marine depositional systems over the proglacial systems. Multiple stacked progradational and retrogradational stratal stacking patterns formed by alternating glacigenic and marginal marine dominated processes signify multiple transgressive‐regressive (T‐R) cycles, manifesting repeated advancements and retreats of the glacier, associated with sea level rise and marine incursions into the land. The top part of the succession, characterized by fine‐grained siltstone/mudstone without any IRD, suggests sedimentation at a relatively deeper part of the basin, indicating the strong influence of the eustatic rise caused by significant melting of the retreating ice sheet. Stacked T‐R cycles bounded by distinct facies architecture define multiple system tracts confined within three major deglaciation sequences within the studied Talchir Formation, suggesting multiple phases of advance‐retreats of the ice sheet and significant marine onlaps within the continental Gondwanaland under the Late Palaeozoic icehouse‐greenhouse climatic change.

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Implications of Late Palaeozoic postglacial marine transgressive‐regressive (T‐R) cycles recorded in the Talchir Formation, Son Valley Basin, peninsular India: A sequence stratigraphic paradigm

Varshney

Bhattacharya

2022

Geological Journal

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“…Facies 5 is interpreted as tidal flat deposits, developed along the late Permian shoreline of an elongate seaway. It bears a striking similarity to the modern North Sea tidal flat deposits documented by Reineck and Singh (1980), late Permian tidal flat deposits preserved in the Bowen Basin, Australia (Michaelsen and Henderson, 2000a) and early Permian marginal marine deposits in southern India recently documented by Saha et al (2022). Furthermore, heterolithic tidal flat deposits were also documented and sampled in the Delgersogt area c. 200 km to the southwest as well as in the Binder district to the northeast, indicating widespread and prolonged tidal conditions along the seaway.…”

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Petro-chemical characterization and depositional setting of a late Permian high ash coal deposit, Central Mongolia

Michaelsen,

Demberelsuren

2024

Mong. geosci.

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Pan global Permian coal measures are unique in the evolution of the Earth, not matched in any period before or since. Middle and late Permian coal-bearing strata are widely distributed in Mongolia. In particular, a large concentration of transtensive coal-bearing sub-basins is located in southern Mongolia, some of which are well documented. However, the late Permian coal measures developed along the shores of the Mongol-Transbaikalian Seaway in central Mongolia, the focus of this contribution, has received very limited attention. This study focuses on the c. 420 m thick coal-bearing middle part of a c. 2,600 m thick Permo-Triassic succession in the Bayanjargalan district. The study draws on data from 38 drillholes, 3 km of trenches, mapping, petrological analysis of sandstone samples, analysis of macroflora, fauna and trace fossils, 82 coal quality samples as well as washability and ash XRD analysis from a 3t coal bulk sample. The unstable and wedge-shaped architecture of the coal seams strongly suggest a syn-tectonic influence on their development. Paleoclimatic indicators suggest the peat mire ecosystem developed during relatively cold - temperate climatic conditions. Peat-forming plants such as Cordaites, Rufloria and Koretrophyllites probably benefited from moist air currents along the seaway. Plant-arthropod interactions are reported from two sites, in particular DT228 and DT246 oviposition lesions, the latter being almost twice the size of a previous report from North America. Results from 82 proximate analyses returned consistent very high ash yields of 46.95% (db) and 43.45% (adb) from the 3t bulk sample, which are unusual for Permian coals in Mongolia.

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Signature of marine influence on Ramnagar coal, Barakar Formation, Raniganj Basin, India

Banerjee¹,

Bandyopadhyay²,

Ruidas³

2023

Arab J Geosci

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Evidence of the Permian marginal marine sedimentation recorded in sub-surface drill cores, Lower Gondwana successions, southern India

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Implications of Late Palaeozoic postglacial marine transgressive‐regressive (T‐R) cycles recorded in the Talchir Formation, Son Valley Basin, peninsular India: A sequence stratigraphic paradigm

Implications of Late Palaeozoic postglacial marine transgressive‐regressive (T‐R) cycles recorded in the Talchir Formation, Son Valley Basin, peninsular India: A sequence stratigraphic paradigm

Petro-chemical characterization and depositional setting of a late Permian high ash coal deposit, Central Mongolia

Signature of marine influence on Ramnagar coal, Barakar Formation, Raniganj Basin, India

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