geology and stratigraphy of raniganj basin,

1. Geology and stratigraphy of Raniganj bsain
Under guidance of
Proff. Dr. K. Milan Kumar Sharma
Department of Geology
Central University of Punjab,
Bathinda
151401
Name – Vipul kumar
Reg. no. 20mscegs25

2. content
• Introduction
• Stratigraphic classification
• Stratigraphic succession
I. Talchir formation
II. Karharbari formation
III. Barakar formation
IV. Barren measure
V. Raniganj formation
VI. Panchet formation
VII. Supra Panchet
• Environment and climate
• Economic significance
• Conclusion

3. Introduction
H.B. Medlicott named the Gondwana in 1872 after the ancient
kingdom of the Dravidian Gonds in central india.
It consists primarily continental succession of sandstone and shale
with coal seams, remains of fauna and flora with marine imprints at
places.
Gondwana sedimentation consists of thick sequence of shallow water,
fluviatile and lacustrine sediments having an aggregate thickness of
about 6000-7000m

4. Source ; JOURNAL GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF INDIA Vol.76, September 2010, pp.251-266
Stratigraphic Correlation between Different Gondwana Basins of India
Fig. Distribution of Gondwana basin in india

5. Supera Panchet Fm
Panchet Group Panchet Fm.
• Lower Gondwana Damuda Group Ranigang Fm.
Talchir Group Barren Measures Fm.
Barakar Fm.
karharbari Fm.
Talchir Fm.

6. SOURCE; JOURNAL GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF INDIA Vol.76, September 2010, pp.251-266
Stratigraphic Correlation between Different Gondwana Basins of India

7. Stratigraphic succession of the Raniganj basin
1. Talchir formation
• Talchir rock unit devided into three
stratigraphic unit
1. Unit A
2. Unit B
3. Unit C
• Fossils- Glossopteris
,Eurydesma,Priondomya, Fenestella
Source: Gondwana Research, V 7, No. 2, pp. 339-352. 2004 International Association for Gondwana Research, Japan.
Deglacial Control on Sedimentation and Basin Evolution of Permo-Carboniferous Talchir Formation

8. Karharbari formation
• The litho-unit consists solely of grey to brown and mottled
carbonaceous sandstones, grits and conglomerates with occasional
coal seams and fire clays.
• The sandstones are usually dirty with angular to sub-angular
quartzand feldspars.
• These also contain reworked clasts of shale/sandstone of the Talchir.
• it contains coal seam and some plant fossils Gondwandium burriada
biozone is considered as a characteristics of the formation.

9. Barakar formation
Its shows two distinct type of lithofacies.
1. Lower Barkar Braided channel facies assemblage.
2. Upper barker Mixed meandering channel estuary.
In barakar formation coal seam divided into three zone on the basis of
condition of deposition sedimentation character.
1. Lower zone – monosaccate/zonate apiculate/varitrilets
2. Middle zone–scheuringipallenites associated with striated disaccated
3. Upper zone- microflora

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11. Barren measures
• The Barren Measures are characterised by the absence of coal seams.
• The Barren Measures Formation is of fluvialelacustrine origin.
• The Barren Measure Formation is the thick sequences of monotonous
grey to black micaceous and often carbonaceous shale with thin sand
intercalation, splits into thin slices along fissile planes.
• Sub angular quartz grains are often seen distributed within this unit at
irregular intervals.
• The Barren Measures shale as a reservoir for shale gas.

12. Raniganj formation
• Seven facies were recognised in
the Raniganj strata.
• Massive, sand-supported
conglomerate
• Trough and planar cross-bedded
sandstone
• Massive to horizontal
bedded/laminated sandstone
• Ripple cross-laminated sandstone
• Interbedded sandstone and shale
• Shale and carbonaceous shale
• Coal
Generalized stratigraphic sequence of Raniganj Coalfield
Source: International Journal of Coal Geology
doi:10.1016/j.coal.2018.06.016

13. Panchet formation • Panchet formation as fluvio-lacustrine
deposits
• The lower part is 50–100 m thick and is
dominantly composed of green-coloured
micaceous laminated siltstones.
• The middle part is about 200 m thick, and is
composed of red-coloured, laminated shaly
siltstones.
• The upper part is 300–400 m thick and is
composed predominantly of grey-coloured
sandstones.
• Lystrosaurus fauna preserved in the Panchet
formation indicates an overall fluvial-
lacustrine paleoenvironment.

14. Supra panchet
• Damodar valley capped by this formation.
• Prominent lithounits are very coarse grain sandstone
interbeded with conglomerate, jasper quartzite,
micaceous ferrginous silt and clay.

15. Environment and climate
• On the basis of lithology the Gondwana environment is glacio-
marine, humid fluvial environment.
• In Gondwana climatic variation are reported on the basis of fossil
assemblage zone.

16. Economic significance
• Barakar and Raniganj formation constitute coal bearing rocks.
• Ferrugniou iron shale known as iron stone shale.
• Various type of clay are found in Gondwana , these clay are used
in refractory bricks and china dish.
• Sandstone are used as a building materials.

17. Conclusion
• Studies of sedimentological structure and deposits.
• The coal seams are found only in the lower group within Karharbari
and Barakar Formations of Lower Permian and Raniganj Formation
and its equivalents of Upper Permian age. Barakar Formation is the
major storehouse of coal in all the basins having more than 90% of
total resource of the country. Karharbari and Raniganj Formations
present only in a few basins
• Fossils are restricted only in few horizons and well-constrained fossils
are extremely rare.
• No volcanism, is present in Gondwana Basins of India during the
entire period of sedimentation except Rajmahal Trap in eastern basins

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