Palynostratigraphy of sub-surface Lower Gondwana, Pali sediments, Sohagpur Coalfield, M.P., India

Abstract

Two palynoassemblages have been identified in B.H. SKM 6, from Mithauri-Kelmania Sector of Sohagpur Coalfield, M.P. The Palynoassemblage I (254.00-163.40 m), of Late Early Permian age reveals the dominance of Scheuringipollenites and Faunipollenites in association with Barakarites, Parasaccites, Ibisporites, Rhizomaspora, Potonieisporites, Arcuatipollenites, Tiwariasporis and Brevitriletes. The Palynoassemblage II (157.40-77.90 m), contains striate disaccate pollen, viz., Faunipollenites, Striatopodocarpites and Crescentipollenites in prominence. Besides, Arcuatipollenites, Densipollenites, Gondisporites, Distriatites, Striatites, Hamiapollenites, Guttulapollenites, Dicappipollenits and Alisporites have also been recorded, with sporadic occurrence of Goubinispora, Brachysaccus, Trabeculosporites, Densoisporites, Playfordiaspora, Lundbladispora, Satsangisaccites, Krempipollenites, Falcisporites, Nidipollenites and Kamthisaccites which suggest a Late Permian age of the assemblage. The significant outcome of the present study is recorded by identifying the Late Permian palynofloral assemblage for the first time in this part of the Sohagpur Coalfield, which is corroborate with the Middle Pali Member of the Pali Formation, in the South Rewa Basin, M.P.

Palynology and palaeoenvironment of Late Permian Sawang OCM, East Bokaro Coalfield, Damodar Basin, India

“…The late Permian palynofossils of the present study are well correlated with other Gondwana basins of peninsular India, such as Damodar Basin (Bharadwaj & Tiwari, 1977;Rana & Tiwari, 1980;Singh & Tiwari, 1982;Tiwari & Singh, 1983;Tiwari & Tripathi, 1992;Srikanta Murthy, 2010;Srikanta Murthy et al, 2010;Vijaya, 2011;Vijaya et al, 2012;Srikanta Murthy et al, 2014;2016); Son-Mahanadi Basin (Srivastava et al, 1977;Tiwari & Ram-Awatar, 1989;Tripathi & Bhattacharya, 2001;Srivastava & Kar, 2001;Kar, 2003;Kar & Srivastava, 2003;Ram-Awatar et al, 2004); Satpura Basin (Bharadwaj et al, 1978;Kumar, 1996;Srikanta Murthy et al, 2013); Rajmahal Basin (Tripathi, 1986(Tripathi, , 1989 and Wardha-Godavari basins (Srivastava & Jha, 1988, 1990, 1991, 1992Jha & Srivastava, 1996;Jha et al, 2007Jha et al, , 2014Jha, 2008; in having similar…”

Early and Late Permian palynoflora from Lower Gondwana sediments of Gundala area, Godavari Graben, Andhra Pradesh, India

“…Kamthisaccites and Hamiapollenites. Palynoassemblage-III (depth 18-144 m) of this investigation is akin to the Assemblage-I of Chelpur area (Srivastava & Jha, 1986), Assemblage-I of Ramagundam area (Bharadwaj et al, 1987), Palynozone-6 of Ramakrishnapuram (Srivastava & Jha, 1992b), Palynoassemblage-V of Manuguru area (Srivastava & Jha, 1992a), Palynoassemblage-I of Bottapagudem area of Chintalpudi sub basin (Jha, 2004), Palynoassemblage-II of Sohagpur Coalfield (Ram Awatar et al, 2004) and is accommodated well within the Striatopodocarpites-Faunipollenites Assemblage-zone of Tiwari and Tripathi (1992).…”

Palynostratigraphy and correlation of the coal bearing Gondwana sediments in the Kothagudem sub basin of the Godavari Graben, South India

“…Palynozone-II is correspondent to the Barakar stage of the Jharia Coalfield (Tripathi & Tiwari, 1982), Zone-3 of the Johilla Coalfield (Anand-Prakash & Srivastava, 1984), Assemblage-II of the Pathakhera Coalfield (Sarate, 1986), Zone-2 of the Umaria Coalfield (Srivastava & Anand-Prakash, 1984), Scheuringipollenites barakarensis (Zone IIIA) Assemblage Zone (Tiwari & Tripathi, 1992; Damodar Basin), Assemblage-II of the Talcher Coalfield (Tripathi, 1997), Assemblage-B of the Wardha Coalfield (Bhattacharyya, 1997), Palynozone-2 of Ib River Coalfield (Meena, 2000), Zone II of the Tatapani-Ramkola Coalfield (Kar & Srivastava, 2003), Palynoassemblage-I of the Pali sediments of the Sohagpur Coalfield (Ram-Awatar et al, 2004), Palynoassemblage of Bandar Coalfield (Sabina et al, 2007), Assemblage-II of the Raniganj Coalfield (Murthy et al, 2010), Lower Barakar palynoassemblage of Wardha Basin (Jha et al, 2011), Scheuringipollenites barakarensis zone of Tatapani-Ramkola Coalfield (Tripathi et al, 2012),…”

“…Palynozone-III shows resemblance with Assemblage-RB-I of the Damodar Basin (Tiwari & Singh, 1986), Assemblage-IV of the Mahanadi Basin (Tiwari et al, 1991), Palynozone-2 of the Kamptee Coalfield (Srivastava & Bhattacharyya, 1996), Striatopodocarpites-Crescentipollenites Zone (Table-4; Zone V-D) or the Densipollenites magnicorpus assemblage Zone (VD) of the Damodar Basin (Tiwari &Tripathi, 1992), Palynozone-2 of the South Rewa Basin (Ram-Awatar, 2001) and Palynoassemblage-II of Sohagpur Coalfield (Ram-Awatar et al, 2004). This palynozone resembles with the Raniganj palynoflora of the Damodar Valley Coalfields (Bharadwaj et al, 1979;Bharadwaj & Tiwari, 1977) in having an abundance of striate bisaccates.…”