NDLI: Palaeogeographic Significance of Ferruginous Gravel Lithofacies in the Ajay - Damodar Interfluve, West Bengal, India

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Palaeogeographic Significance of Ferruginous Gravel Lithofacies in the Ajay - Damodar Interfluve, West Bengal, India

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Author	Ghosh, Sandipan
Copyright Year	2014
Abstract	Distribution of lithofacies in vertical sequence, lateral extent and association of lithofacies characterize the basin fill sediments through alluvial fan to fan-delta sequence, exposed in the eastern parts of Ranjganj Coalfield (i.e. Ajay – Damodar Interfluve of West Bengal). The occurrences of Gci, Gcm and Gcg facies reflect clast-rich debris to pseudoplastic flow in hot and arid climatic condition on the faulted basal slope, situated at western shelf zone of Bengal Basin. Towards the proximal part, the sedimentary sequences of Gh, Gt, Gp, Fm, Sm and Gmg signify the progradation of fan-delta in hot and humid climatic condition under shallow marine environment. These facies of gravels were probably deposited in between Oligocene and Miocene when the monsoon climate was gradually established in this part of Peninsular India. This event was followed by intensive lateritization process, giving birth of autochthonous and allochthonous ferruginous materials since Late Miocene when the shoreline was finally receded from this part. The ferruginous beds of clast-rich Tertiary gravels (fan lobes) are identified as a signature of earliest coarse deposits in the north-west Bengal Basin, carrying proxies of palaeomonsoon.
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