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| Author | SENSARMA, SARAJIT SINGH, HUKAM RANA, R S PAUL, DEBAJYOTI SAHNI, ASHOK |
| Copyright Year | 2017 |
| Abstract | The recognition of pyroclasts preserved in sedimentary environments far from its source is uncommon. We here describe occurrences of several centimetres-thick discontinuous basaltic pumice lenses occurring within the Early Eocene Vastan lignite mine sedimentary sequence, western India at two different levels – one at ∼5 m and the other at 10 m above a biostratigraphically constrained 52 Ma old marker level postdating the Deccan Volcanism. These sections have received global attention as they record mammalian and plant radiations. We infer the repetitive occurrence of pumice have been sourced from a ∼52–50 Ma MORB related to sea-floor spreading in the western Arabian Sea, most plausibly along the Carlsberg Ridge. Pyroclasts have skeletal plagioclase with horsetail morphologies ± pyroxene ± Fe–Ti oxide euhedral crystals, and typically comprise of circular polymodal (radii ≤10 to ≥30 μm), non-coalescing microvesicles (>40–60%). The pumice have undergone considerable syngenetic alteration during oceanic transport and post-burial digenesis, and are a composite mixture of Fe–Mn-rich clay and hydrated altered basaltic glass (palagonite). The Fe–Mn-rich clay is extremely low in SiO $_{2}$, Al $_{2}$ O $_{3}$, TiO $_{2}$, MgO, alkalies and REE, but very high in Fe $_{2}$ O $_{3}$, MnO, P, Ba, Sr contents, and palagonitization involved significant loss of SiO $_{2}$, Al $_{2}$ O $_{3}$, MgO and variable gain in Fe $_{2}$ O $_{3}$, TiO $_{2}$, Ni, V, Zr, Zn and REE. Bubble initiation to growth in the ascending basaltic magma (liquidus ∼1200–1250 $^{∘}$C) may have occured in ∼3 hr. Short-distance transport, non-connected vesicles, deposition in inner shelf to more confined lagoonal condition in the Early Eocene and quick burial helped preservation of the pumice in Vastan. Early Eocene Arabian Sea volcanism thus might have been an additional source to marginal sediments along the passive margin of western India. |
| Starting Page | 1 |
| Ending Page | 19 |
| Page Count | 19 |
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| ISSN | 02534126 |
| Journal | Journal of Earth System Science |
| Volume Number | 126 |
| Issue Number | 2 |
| e-ISSN | 0973774X |
| Language | English |
| Publisher | Springer India |
| Publisher Date | 2017-02-17 |
| Publisher Institution | Indian Academy of Sciences |
| Publisher Place | New Delhi |
| Access Restriction | One Nation One Subscription (ONOS) |
| Subject Keyword | Pumice basalt sea rafting Eocene Carlsberg Ridge Vastan lignite mine India Earth Sciences Space Sciences (including Extraterrestrial Physics, Space Exploration and Astronautics) |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
| Subject | 1900/1901 |
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