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Sedimentary petrography and ichnology of the Barail Group along the Old Cachar road, Manipur, India

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The Oligocene Barail Group represents a significant lithostratigraphic unit within Paleogene-Neogene successions of northeast India. Integrated sedimentologic and ichnologic analyses along the Old Cachar road, Manipur, have been carried out. Sedimentological investigation reveals a dominance of subarkoses and arkoses, with source rocks being granites, pegmatites, gneiss, and schists, typical of a warm, humid to subhumid palaeoclimate. The ichnofauna points to a depositional environment ranging from upper shoreface through tide-dominated delta front up to the lower shoreface zone, characterized by Teredolites, Glossifungites, Skolithos, Skolithos-Cruziana, and Cruziana ichnofacies. The Barail sequences represent a hyperpycnal-delta-fed sedimentary unit, deposited at the continental margin in the passively rifted western Burma basin which evolved due to magma-poor hyperextension.

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The authors show their appreciation to Science Engineering and Research Board (SERB), Department of Science and Technology (DST), New Delhi, Government of India, for the financial support (Project EMR/2015/002007), and to Dr. BD Thumdal, Principal, United College, Lambung, Chandel for his unstinted encouragement. We are extremely thankful to Hendrik Klein of Saurierwelt Paläontologisches Museum, D-92318 Neumarkt, Germany, for his contribution towards English corrections of the manuscript.

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This work was supported by the Science Engineering and Research Board (SERB), Department of Science and Technology (DST), Government of India, with sanction no. EMR/2015/002007.

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    Moni Oinam

  2. Department of Geology, United College, Lambung, Chandel, 795 127, India

    Hemanta Singh Rajkumar & Echeni Heni

  3. Department of Earth Sciences, Manipur University, Canchipur, 795 003, India

    Ibotombi Soibam

  4. Torban Kshetri Leikai Primary School, Imphal, 795 001, Manipur, India

    Nishila Oinam

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Oinam, M., Rajkumar, H.S., Soibam, I. et al. Sedimentary petrography and ichnology of the Barail Group along the Old Cachar road, Manipur, India. Arab J Geosci 15, 706 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12517-022-09895-6

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