RUSSIAN JOURNAL OF EARTH SCIENCES, VOL. 20, ES2003, doi:10.2205/2020ES000698, 2020
Age | Supergroup | Group | Lithology |
Miocene– | Siwalik | Micaceous, hard Sandstone and shale intercalated | |
Pliocene | with nodular clay beds, Felspathic sandstone, | ||
claystone, siltstone, shale with calcareous nodules | |||
plant fossils and occasional coal, petrified wood. | |||
Paleocene– | Abor | Basic volcanics with pyroclast and volcanogenic | |
Eocene | sediments with occasional limestone. | ||
Permian | Gondwana | Lower Gondwana | Diamictite, orthoquartzite, grey shale, coal, |
(Bichom Fm) | carbonaceous shale, siltstone, sandstone | ||
Carbonaceous shale, grey shale. | |||
Palaeozoic | Miri | Skolithos bearing pink quartzite, Orthoquartzite, | |
bands of phyllite and occassional conglomerate. |
Citation: Mahanta Bashab N., B. R. Syngai, R. K. Sarmah, T. K. Goswami, Amit Kumar (2020), Geochemical signatures of Lower Gondwana sandstones of eastern Arunachal Himalayas, India: Implications for tectonic setting, provenance and degree of weathering, Russ. J. Earth Sci., 20, ES2003, doi:10.2205/2020ES000698.
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