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IJSEA Archive (Volume 4, Issue 6)

International Journal of Science and Engineering Applications (IJSEA)  (Volume 4, Issue 6 November-December 2015)

Depositional Environment of KG Basin, East Coast of India

V.V.NageswaraRao,V. Swarup Kumar, T.Naveen Kumar

10.7753/IJSEA0406.1009




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Keywords: Raghavapuram shale, TirupatiSandsstone, Indian Peninsula, Gondwana Super Continent, upliftment.

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        By the end of the Upper Jurassic, sedimentation in the Godavari main basin and southern basins were more or less ended. It was, however, followed by the most significant geological event with in the Gondwana Super Continent. India separated from the Gondwana assembly and the eastern margin of the Indian peninsula was positioned at latitude 500S and was oriented in an east-west direction (Chatterjee and Ghosh, 1970). The Indian plate has moved north ward, and the eastern continental passive margin rotated 200 in counterclockwise direction and tilted to east (Gordon, et al., 1990). Because of this northward Journey of Indian plate, Indian Ocean has opened. Rifting and drifting has followed in the southeastern margin of the Eastern Ghats.At the beginning of Cretaceous, NNE-SSW to NE-SW and E-W faulting that resulted in the further upliftment of basement ridges of the peninsular gneissic complex and the Eastern Ghats Mobile Belt. In between these ridges, a localized basin (Krishna - Godavari basin) existed along the Coastal Gondwana, which was filled with the clay-sandstone sequence of Raghavapuram Formation.


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journal = "International Journal of Science and Engineering Applications (IJSEA)",
volume = "4",
number = "6",
pages = "384 - 388",
year = "2015",
author = " V.V.NageswaraRao,V. Swarup Kumar, T.Naveen Kumar ",
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