An alternate perspective on the opening and closing of the intracratonic Purana basins in peninsular India

Purana basins in India are Proterozoic in age, filled with mostly marine, deltaic, and fluvial sediments, with some alluvial fan deposits in the basin margins. The basin fill is largely undeformed and unmetamorphosed, and the basins occur in many shallow (

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Published in:Journal of the Geological Society of India 2015, Vol.85 (1), p.5-25
Main Authors: Basu, Abhijit, Bickford, M. E.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Alluvial fans
Basins
Cambrian
Cratons
Earth and Environmental Science
Earth Sciences
Fluvial sediments
Geologic depressions
Geology
Hydrogeology
Marine
Paleomagnetism
Plate tectonics
Sea level
Sediment load
Sedimentary geology
Sedimentation
Topography
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Summary:Purana basins in India are Proterozoic in age, filled with mostly marine, deltaic, and fluvial sediments, with some alluvial fan deposits in the basin margins. The basin fill is largely undeformed and unmetamorphosed, and the basins occur in many shallow (
ISSN:0016-7622
0974-6889
DOI:10.1007/s12594-015-0190-y