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CURRENT SCIENCE
Volume 110, Issue 1, Pages 86-91Publisher
INDIAN ACAD SCIENCES
DOI: 10.18520/cs/v110/i1/86-91
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Crustacean trace fossils; coal basin; estuarine firmground; fluvial system; Glossifungites ichnofacies
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- DST, New Delhi [SR/FTP/ES-170/2010]
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Early Permian Barakar Formation (Gondwana Super-group) in peninsular India was earlier interpreted as deposited in braided-meandering fluvial system. Intense burrowing by decapod crustaceans of marginal marine affinity led to Thalassinoides-Ophiomorpha-Rhizocorallium ichnoassemblage, belonging to Glossifungites ichnofacies, within the sandstone-mudstone heterolithic facies near the upper part of the Barakar sedimentary succession, Gouduni River, Talchir coal basin, Odisha, India. An early cementation of the sandstone-mudstone interbeds under changed salinity condition is attributed to mixing of fluvial channels with tide-wave influenced marine depositional systems. This resulted in a semi-consolidated firmground, favouring incipient crustacean colonization during prolonged phases of marine incursion within a fluvial-marine interactive estuarine system during the early Permian in eastern peninsular India.
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