Volume 1, No. 2, September 2015

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  • ISSN: 2395-647X (Online)
  • Abbreviated Title:  Int. J. Geol. Earth Sci.
  • Editor-in-Chief: ​Prof. Marina Fernandez de la Cruz, Department of Petrology and Geochemistry, Faculty of Geological Sciences, Complutense University of Madrid, Spain
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Evolutionary History of the Proterozoic Kolhan Basin: A Review

Kasturi Bhattacharyya and Subhasish Das
Department of Geology and Geophysics, IIT Kharagpur, West Bengal-721302

Abstract—The sedimentation pattern in the Kolhans reflects a change from braided fluvial-ephemeral pattern to a fan delta lacustrine type. Repeated fault controlled uplift of the source followed by subsidence and forced regression, generated multiple sediment cyclicity that led to the fluvial-fan delta sedimentation pattern. Intermittent uplift of the faulted blocks exposed fresh bedrock to mechanical weathering that generated a large amount of detritus and resulted to forced regressions, repeatedly disrupting the cycles which may reflect a stratigraphic response of marine-connected rift basins at the early stage of extension. The marked variations in thickness of the fan delta succession and the stacking pattern in different measured profiles reflect the overriding tectonic controls on fan-delta evolution. The accumulated fault displacement created higher accommodation and thicker delta sequences. Intermittent uplift of fault blocks exposed fresh bedrock to mechanical weathering, generated a large amount of detritus, and resulted in forced closure of the land locked basin, repeatedly disrupting the fining upward pattern. The controls of source rock lithology or climate were of secondary importance to tectonic effects. Such a retrograding fan delta could be a stratigraphic response of connected rift basins at the early stage of extension.

Index Terms—subsidence, fan delta, lacustrine, forced regression

Cite:Kasturi Bhattacharyya and Subhasish Das, "Evolutionary History of the Proterozoic Kolhan Basin: A Review," International Journal of Geology and Earth Science, Vol. 1, No. 2, pp. 49-54, September 2015.