A Field-Scale Overview of Facies Architectures and Depositional Environment Integrating Core and Geophysical Log Data: Study from a Marginal Gondwana Basin, India
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Geologix Limited, Dynasty Building, Level-4, Wing-A, Andheri Kurla Road, Andheri (E), Mumbai - 400 059
Souvik Sen -
School of Earth and Environment, University of Leeds, Leeds,
Joyjit Dey
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Karanpura field is the western most member of the E-W trending Damodar Valley basin, belonging to Indian Gondwana sedimentation. This paper aims to provide a field-scale depositional model of Permian Barakar Formation from Karanpura field in order to enlarge the knowledge of stratigraphic and facies architecture. The study reviews the findings from extensively available cores. Four major facies were defined, which represented a fluvial depositional environment. Observations from core analyses were integrated with high resolution geophysical log data to understand the stacking pattern and depositional cyclicity of Barakar Formation. The lateral and vertical distributions of the facies associations were highlighted by well correlations, which established major fining upwards depositional cycles in the area. The depositional model has been interpreted on a regional scale.
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