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The carbonate metasediments of Pindwara-AbuRoad Belt (PARB) in the Sirohi district belongs to the Kumbhalgarh Group of the South Delhi Terrane (SDT). The litho-assemblages associated are quartzite, carbonate, mica schist, phyllite, metavolcanics, and granitoids. The present study is made on impure marble and calcsilicates of the study area. The carbonates show mineralogical variations with indiscernible field boundaries. The carbonates composed of calcite, diopside, hornblende, tremolite, actinolite, biotite, muscovite, epidote, quartz, plagioclase with minor proportion of apatite, sphene, garnet, sericite, kyanite, zircon, opaque, and broadly may be termed as calc-silicates. The mineral chemistry, major, trace elements, and REE geochemistry of the carbonates reveal the nature of protolith, provenance, depositional environment, spatial and temporal constraints on metamorphism, and on going tectonic process. The study suggests that the PARB carbonate metasediments were derived from a varied proportion of terrigenous and quartzo-feldspathic felsic provenance and deposited in less saline shallow marine environment in an intra-continental rift setting. These exhibit amphibolite to green-schist facies metamorphism, accompanied by polyphase deformation. The metasediments of the region indicate the Meso-Neoproterozoic transition during the Delhi Orogeny in SDT.
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The authors wish to acknowledge the funding agency DST, GOI for their support in this research work through WOS-A scheme (Project Reference No: SR/WOS-A/EA-1017-B/2015). Acknowledgments are due to Prof. S. C. Patel, Department of Earth Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay for the help rendered in EPMA facilities and to Wadia Institute of Himalayan Geology, Dehradun for rendering geochemical analysis of selected samples. The authors are thankful to the Heads of the department, MohanlalSukhadia University for providing necessary working facilities. Authors are thankful to Mr. RachitParihar for rendering help in this work. The authors are also thankful to the anonymous reviewers, whose suggestions have improved the manuscript.
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Dutta, R., Purohit, R., Bhu, H. et al. Petrology and Geochemistry of Carbonate Metasediments from Pindwara- Aburoad Belt in the Southern Part of South Delhi Terrane: Implications for Protolith, Provenance and Tectonic Setting. J Geol Soc India 99, 710–722 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12594-023-2371-4
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