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High resolution facies record on late Holocene flood plain sediments from lower reaches of Narmada Valley, Western India

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A high resolution quantitative granulometric record for site Uchediya [21°43′2.22″ N, 73° 6′26.22″ E; 10 m a. s. l.] gives understanding towards accretion history of the late Holocene flood plain in the lower reaches of Narmada River. Two sediment facies (sandy and muddy) and seven subfacies (sandy subfacies: StMS+FS+CS, SmFS+MS, SlFS+VFS, and StMS + CS; muddy subfacies: FmSILT+VFS+FS, FmSILT+VFS (O) and FmSILT+VFS (T)) are identified based on cluster analysis supplemented with sedimentary structures observed in field and other laboratory data. Changes in hydrodynamics are further deduced based on various sedimentological parameters and their ratios leading to arrive at a depositional model.

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  1. Department of Geology, Faculty of Science, Faculty of Arts The Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda, Vadodara, 390 002, India

    Prabhin Sukumaran & Dhananjay A. Sant

  2. Department of Archaeology and Ancient History, Faculty of Arts The Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda, Vadodara, 390 002, India

    K. Krishnan

  3. Department of Mathematics, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, 560 012, India

    Govindan Rangarajan

  4. Institute of Seismological Research, Gandhinagar, 382 009, India

    Prabhin Sukumaran

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Sukumaran, P., Sant, D.A., Krishnan, K. et al. High resolution facies record on late Holocene flood plain sediments from lower reaches of Narmada Valley, Western India. J Geol Soc India 79, 41–52 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12594-012-0009-z

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