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Deposition of the Upper Rewa Sandstone Formation of proterozoic Rewa group of the Vindhyan Basin, M.P., India: A Reappraisal

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The Upper Rewa Sandstone Formation of the Rewa Group in the Vindhyan basin is composed mainly of medium to very fine grained, iron pigmented arenaceous rocks variously interpreted as fluvial, marine or continental deposits. The Upper Rewa Sandstone Formation consists of channelized, laterally shifting sand bodies comprising 1-2 m thick fining upward (FU) sharply/erosionally based cycles. Each shoaling bar cycle is characterized by presence of large scale planar and trough cross-bedding, horizontal bedding showing primary parting lineation, wave and current ripples, herringbone cross-bedding and tidal bundles with double mud-drapes and indicates marine environment of deposition and rule out the possibility of continental sedimentation. However, channelized nature of sand bodies composed of shoaling bar cycles with signatures of wave modification and exposure in the lower part of the succession and well developed horizontally bedded lithofacies showing primary parting lineation and well sorted character of sandstones in the upper part of the succession may imply deposition under subtidal to intertidal setting in estuarine to bordering beach environments. The palaeocurrent study shows polymodal to bimodal and unimodal palaeocurrent patterns. The dominant polymodal palaeocurrent patterns with temporal trends directed towards NW, N and SW also corroborate marine origin and sediment dispersal under combined action of wave and currents. Petrographically, sandstone is quartzarenite and consists of mostly monocrystalline quartz, feldspar, mica, rock-fragments and heavy minerals such as hypersthene, zircon, hornblende, tourmaline, rutile, augite, kyanite and andalusite indicating sediment contribution from mixed sedimentary/metamorphic and igneous source terrain. Qm-F-Lt and Qt-F-Lt plots reveal that the Upper Rewa Sandstone Formation shows continental block province with stable craton (C) and in uplifted basement (B) where C>B.

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Verma, A., Shukla, U.K. Deposition of the Upper Rewa Sandstone Formation of proterozoic Rewa group of the Vindhyan Basin, M.P., India: A Reappraisal. J Geol Soc India 86, 421–437 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12594-015-0330-4

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