Sedimentation in a Rifted Basin: Insights from the Proterozoic Rajgarh Siliciclastics, Delhi Supergroup, Northeastern Rajasthan
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Department of Geology, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh – 202 002
Sadia Khanam -
Department of Geology, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh – 202 002
M. A. Quasim
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Department of Geology, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh – 202 002
A. H. M. Ahmad
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Formerly, Wadia Institute of Himalayan Geology (WIHG), Dehradun - 248 001
Sumit K. Ghosh
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The fining upward sequence of Proterozoic Rajgarh Formation mainly consists of feldspathic sandstone, quartzarenite, bands of shale and have a restricted lateral extent with variable palaeoflow pattern. Eight major lithofacies identified from this succession collectively indicate fluvial to marginal marine depositional set up. The Rajgarh quartzose to feldspatho-quartzose siliciclastics are fine- to coarse grained, poorly- to moderately sorted derived from a stable continental block provenance that deposited in a fault bounded graben. The deposition of the Rajgarh siliciclastics can be best explained by short transportation, high relief and fast sedimentation in rapidly subsiding fault-bounded basin and indicate radial slope and source located in the Dausa uplift in the east and banded gneissic complex (BGC) in the south and southeast.
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