Understanding the transportational and depositional setting of Panchet Formation, Purulia and Bankura districts of West Bengal, India---- Evidence from grain size analysis

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Front Earth Sci

2011, Vol. 5

Issue (2) : 138-149 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11707-011-0169-y

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Understanding the transportational and depositional setting of Panchet Formation, Purulia and Bankura districts of West Bengal, India---- Evidence from grain size analysis

Bapi GOSWAMI(

), Dipsikha GHOSH

Department of Geology, University of Calcutta, Kolkata 700029, India

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Abstract

The rocks of Triassic Panchet Formation (TPF) of West Bengal, India, predominantly include sandstones of medium to fine grain-size, with subordinate shale and pebble horizons. Textural parameter like mean, standard deviation, skewness and kurtosis are calculated using standard methods to understand the transportation and the depositional environment of the sediments in a part of Panchet Formation. Granulometric analyses indicate the presence of fluvial environment interrupted with aeolian, beach and tidal environments prevailed during the time of deposition of the sediments in this part of Gondwanaland during the Triassic time.

Keywords gondwanaland panchet textural parameters environment West Bengal

Corresponding Author(s): GOSWAMI Bapi,Email:bapigoswami69@gmail.com

Issue Date: 05 June 2011

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Bapi GOSWAMI,Dipsikha GHOSH. Understanding the transportational and depositional setting of Panchet Formation, Purulia and Bankura districts of West Bengal, India---- Evidence from grain size analysis[J]. Front Earth Sci, 2011, 5(2): 138-149.

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Fig.1 (a) Map of Gondwana basins of India after Bandyopadhyay (), (b) disposition of Raniganj Basin in Damodar valley and (c) geological map of the study area (after ). Please note the location of samples analyzed in the study

Tab.1 Stratigraphic succession of Gondwana sediments in Damodar Valley (after Raja Rao, 1987)

Tab.2 Grain size characteristics of Panchet sediments (Method after )

Fig.2 Variation of textural components of the sandstone samples of the Panchet Formation along a hypothetical vertical profile section. (a) Graphic mean; (b) standard deviation; (c) skewness and (d) kurtosis. All parameters are calculated following formulations of Folk and Ward ()

Fig.3 (a) Scatter plot of mean size versus standard deviation (sorting) of sandstones of Panchet Formation (after ). Fields of river, beach and dune environments in the diagram is drawn by Martins () modified after Friedman (). Most of the values indicate fluvial environment of deposition followed by dune and beach environments. (b) Scatter plot of mean size versus skewness of sandstones of Panchet Formation (after ). Note that most of the samples are positively skewed within a mean grain-size of 2-4 Φ. (c) Scatter plot of mean size versus kurtosis of sandstones of Panchet Formations (after ). Note that the samples ranges from leptokurtic – platykurtic, most of the samples are leptokurtic followed by mesokurtic. (d) Scatter plot of skewness versus standard deviation of sandstones of Panchet Formations (after ). The fields of river, dune and beach environments are given by Martins () modified after Friedman (). Note that most of the samples are positively skewed and clustering of grains in one sector indicating dominance of sand mode having subordinate silt. Because of the silt the skewness values deviates into the negative sector. Most of the samples plot in the depositional environment of river, followed by dune and beach environments. (e) Scatter plot of standard deviation versus kurtosis of sandstones of Panchet Formations (after ). Note an increase in size, samples follow a regular progression on this diagram, from silty sands (A) to pure sands (B) to sub equal mixtures of sand and silt (C). (f) Scatter plot of kurtosis versus skewness of sandstones of Panchet Formation (after ). Note that most of the present values dominantly fall within the range of the normal curve (shaded area) with regard to both skewness and kurtosis. Values which fall out of the range of normal curve are due to wide separation between the modes of silty sands and the ineffective sorting of depositional environment

Fig.4 (a) Plots of sandstones of Panchet Formation in CM diagram of Passega (). Note that the sediments of present study mostly fall in fields IV and V which are suspension sediments that may contain rolled grains smaller than 1 mm. These rolled grains may have been transported long distances in suspension before being rolled. (b) Plots of Panchet sandstones in the CM diagram modified by Peiry (). According to this plot sandstones of present study deposited mostly in the emerged bar facies followed by topset fill of a dead arm of a channel and submerged bank facies in a fluvial environment

Tab.3 Environment of deposition of Panchet Samples (after )

Fig.5 Cumulative Frequency Curve plotted at Probability scale of sediments of Panchet Formation after Visher ()

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