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Recrystallization and Provenance History of the Upper Kaimur Group Siliciclastics, Son Valley, India: Coupled Petrographic and Fluid inclusion Proxy

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The Mesoproterozoic Kaimur Group belonging to upper part of Vindhyan Supergroup, conformably overlies the carbonate sequence of Semri Group (Lower Vindhyan) in the Son Valley, central India. The Upper Kaimur Group consists of Dhandraul sandstone, Scarp sandstone and Bijaigarh shale. The detrital contents of the Dhandraul and Scarp sandstones are mainly composed of several varieties of quartz followed by feldspar, rock fragments, micas and heavy minerals. Fluid inclusion studies are carried out on the detrital and recrystallized quartz grains of the Dhandraul and Scarp sandstone to know about the fluid phases already present in the source rock and / or introduced in the recrystallisation process. Fluid micro-thermometry reveals the presence of two types of fluids: (i) bi-phase low saline aqueous inclusions, (ii) bi-phase high saline aqueous inclusion. These fluids were trapped during the development of grain and recrystallization processes. The salinity of these inclusions in the quartz grain is in the range of 5.7 to 13.4% suggests that initially there was good proportion of marine water during the initiation of sedimentation. The provenance of these rocks may be granite/metamorphic rocks of Mahakoshal Group and Chhotanagpur granite-gneisses and minor input from Bundelkhand granite complex.

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    M. A. Quasim & A. H. M. Ahmad

  2. Wadia Institute of Himalayan Geology, Dehradun (Uttrakhand), India, Uttrakhand, 248 001, India

    Himanshu K. Sachan

  3. Formerly Wadia Institute of Himalayan Geology (WIHG), Dehradun, India, Dehradun, 248 001, India

    Sumit K. Ghosh

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Quasim, M.A., Ahmad, A.H.M., Sachan, H.K. et al. Recrystallization and Provenance History of the Upper Kaimur Group Siliciclastics, Son Valley, India: Coupled Petrographic and Fluid inclusion Proxy. J Geol Soc India 93, 177–184 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12594-019-1148-2

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