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Biswas, Ananya
- Signature of a Paleogene Submarine-Fan from the Jenam Formation, Barail Group, Assam-Arakan Orogen, Northeastern India
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1 Department of Geology, Bengal Engineering & Science University, Shibpur, IN
1 Department of Geology, Bengal Engineering & Science University, Shibpur, IN
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Journal of Geological Society of India (Online archive from Vol 1 to Vol 78), Vol 78, No 6 (2011), Pagination: 510-522Abstract
Geological domains in northeastern India evolved though time after the rupture of the Gondwanaland. Collision of the Indian and the Burmese plates took place during the middle part of Cretaceous. Evolution of the Paleogene Barail trough, Neogene Surma and Tipam Groups took place gradually. The Barail trough originated at the active margin of the Indo-Burmese plate convergence. Previously, the Barail sedimentary wedge was interpreted to have been deposited in a deltaic to shallow-marine environment. Latter studies have proposed a new depositional model. The Barail Group, a part of the Assam-Arakan Orogen comprises the lowermost Laisong Formation, middle Jenam and upper Rinji Formation. Most of the Paleogene strata of the Barail Group carry imprints of a deep-water submarine fan near an active subduction zone. A deep-water proximal- to mid-fan depositional setting has been ascribed to the lower Laisong strata. Facies analysis of the extensive exposures of the Jenam Formation, near the Jenamghat, Assam, have enabled a detailed reconstruction of a proximal to mid-part of a submarine fan under an overall influence of turbidity currents and debris flow, ultimately evolving into turbidity currents. The Jenam sedimentary wedge bears tell-tale preservation of olistostromes (chaotic facies) with abundant volcaniclastics and basic rock fragments, massive sandstones, conglomeratic sandstone to sandstone-siltstone-shale and sandstone-siltstone-mudstones with profuse turbidites. Facies attributes amply signal the inherent instability of the Barail trough owing to its location near an active subduction zone. The Jenam suite of rocks containing a strong impress of volcanogenic materials along with quartzo-feldspathic rocks were mixed up by turbidity currents and shed into the submarine environment as the Jenam deep-water turbidites.Keywords
Jenam Turbidites, Olistostromes, Deep-Water, Proximal-to Mid-Fan, Active Subduction Zone.
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