Antidunes and antidune stratification in the Permo-Carboniferous Talchir Formation, Talchir Gondwana basin, Orissa, India
Antidunes and antidune stratification in the Permo-Carboniferous Talchir Formation, Talchir Gondwana basin, Orissa, India
复制标题
印度奥里萨邦塔尔奇冈瓦纳盆地二叠纪-石炭纪塔尔奇尔组的反沙丘和反沙丘分层
DOI:
--
复制
发表时间:
2009
期刊:
影响因子:
--
通讯作者:
B. Mishra
中科院分区:
文献类型:
--
作者:
W. Maejima;Rabindra Nath Hota;B. Mishra
Bedforms and stratification indicative of an antidune origin are well preserved in the alluvial fan succession in the Permo-Carboniferous Talchir Formation, Talchir basin, Orissa, India. They are either two-dimensional or three-dimensional; the latter are common. Broadly convex-up, concordant and continuous laminae over the bedforms are significant in these structures. Some show distinct backset laminae. The paleohydraulic reconstruction for the Talchir antidunes indicates that the antidunes were formed in a wide range of flow conditions with variable flow depths of 15-140 cm and flow velocities of 125-370 cm/sec. It is notable that many of antidunes give enormously great values of flow velocity and flow depth as the consequence of their large wavelengths, commonly of the order of several meters to more than ten meters, seldom reported from rock records. Talchir antidunes were most likely formed by highly sediment-laden sheetflood flows. Common occurrence of large-scale antidunes in the succession indicates that sheetfloods of unusual magnitude were frequently generated on the Talchir alluvial fan and spread over the fan surface. In the context that sedimentation and basin evolution during Talchir time were highly controlled by deglaciation of Gondwana glaciers, generation of such super floods are attributable to the collapse of a glacier and outburst of intra-montane glacial lakes having a great pondage. Key-words: sheet flood, supercritical flow, antidune, Talchir Formation, Indian Gondwanas.