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Cretaceous Research

Volume 11, Issue 2, June 1990, Pages 175-190
Cretaceous Research

Clastic environments and facies of the Lower Cretaceous Narmada Basin, India

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The Lower Cretaceous sedimentary rocks, mainly sandstones and shales outcropping in patches in northeast Gujarat, were deposited in the linear Narmada Basin trending WSW-ENE across the Indian peninsula.

The lenticular sandstones were deposited in shallow channels in a tidal environment. They contain sedimentary features suggesting waxing and waning currents, bidirectional currents and rapid changes in flow pattern. The tidal regime was macro-tidal, as evidenced by the presence of horizontal laminated sandstones and uncommon flaser, wavy and interlaminated mud-clay bedding.

The areal distribution of facies indicates that the sediments represent an estuarine complex. Subenvironments included channels separated by terrigenous mud flats and carbonate mud flats. Sediment dispersal through the channels was mainly westwards, but some northwest-flowing braided channels delivered sediments from highlands beyond the southern margin of the basin.

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