A multistorey sandstone complex in the Himalayan Foreland Basin, NW Himalaya, India

Interrelation of magnetic susceptibility, soil color and elemental mobility in the Pliocene–Pleistocene Siwalik paleosol sequences of the NW Himalaya, India

“…The Boulder Conglomerate Formation consists of thickly bedded massive conglomerates with interstratified sandstone and mudstones and infrequent truncated paleosols. Detailed sedimentological studies including facies association, sediment architecture, paleoflow, petromineralogy, grainsize and clay mineralogy, magnetostratigraphy, rock magnetism and their climatic and tectonic inferences for the above sections are given in Kumar and Tandon (1985), Kumar (1993), Sangode et al (1999), Thomas et al (2002), Kumar et al (2003Kumar et al ( , 2004, Sangode and Bloemendal (2004), Siddaiah and Sangode (2005), Kumaravel et al (2005aKumaravel et al ( ,b, 2009.…”

High resolution stratigraphy of initial stages of rifting, Sergipe-Alagoas Basin, Brazil

“…The abundance of cross-strata suggests a relatively constant discharge, indicating perennial fluvial channels (Miall 1996). The frequent occurrence of intraformational mudstone clasts indicates that rare records of floodplain may have deposited, but they were later eroded by fluvial channel avulsions (Kumar et al 2004). The alternation between horizontal lamination and low angle cross-stratification (Sh/Sl), as well as between low angle cross-stratification and trough cross-stratification (Sl/St), suggests variation of discharge energy.…”

Origin of Late Palaeoproterozoic Great Vindhyan basin of North Indian shield: Geochemical evidence from mafic volcanic rocks

“…The Tertiary sequences of this basin are overthrust from the north by pre-Tertiary older rocks of the Lesser Himalayan belt along the Main Boundary Thrust. In general the sediments are folded, faulted, and overthrust near the margins of the basin but grade into flat lying sediments towards the interior of the basin (Kumar et al, 2004). The entire basin is madeup of several sub-basins bounded by pre-existing lineaments (Virdi, 1979) which are extensions of the basement features from the Indian shield into Himalaya.…”

“…These lineaments originated as normal faults during an earlier extensional regime and were later reactivated as thrust faults during Tertiary orogeny (Dubey, 1997). The sedimentary sequences of Himalayan foreland basin were deposited in highly varied environments ranging from marine to fluviatile (Acharyya, 2001;Kumar et al, 2004). Recent studies have shown the occurrences of early to middle Eocene (45-55 Ma) mafic volcanic rocks covering almost the entire length of Himalayan foreland basin (Acharyya, 2001).…”