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High Resolution Facies Record on Late Holocene Flood Plain Sediments from Lower Reaches of Narmada Valley, Western India


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1 Department of Geology, The Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda, Vadodara - 390 002, India
2 Department of Archaeology and Ancient History, The Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda, Vadodara - 390 002, India
3 Department of Mathematics, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore - 560 012, India
     

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A high resolution quantitative granulometric record for site Uchediya [21°43'2.22" N, 73° 6'26.22" E; 10 m a. s. l.] gives understanding towards accretion history of the late Holocene flood plain in the lower reaches of Narmada River. Two sediment facies (sandy and muddy) and seven subfacies (sandy subfacies: StMS+FS+CS, SmFS+MS, SlFS+VFS, and StMS + CS; muddy subfacies: FmSILT+VFS+FS, FmSILT+VFS+FS (O) and FmSILT+VFS+FS (T)) are identified based on cluster analysis supplemented with sedimentary structures observed in field and other laboratory data. Changes in hydrodynamics are further deduced based on various sedimentological parameters and their ratios leading to arrive at a depositional model.

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Lower Reaches of Narmada Valley, Late Holocene, Sedimentology, Sediment Facies, Hydrology.
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Authors

Prabhin Sukumaran
Department of Geology, The Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda, Vadodara - 390 002, India
Dhananjay A. Sant
Department of Geology, The Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda, Vadodara - 390 002, India
K. Krishnan
Department of Archaeology and Ancient History, The Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda, Vadodara - 390 002, India
Govindan Rangarajan
Department of Mathematics, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore - 560 012, India

Abstract


A high resolution quantitative granulometric record for site Uchediya [21°43'2.22" N, 73° 6'26.22" E; 10 m a. s. l.] gives understanding towards accretion history of the late Holocene flood plain in the lower reaches of Narmada River. Two sediment facies (sandy and muddy) and seven subfacies (sandy subfacies: StMS+FS+CS, SmFS+MS, SlFS+VFS, and StMS + CS; muddy subfacies: FmSILT+VFS+FS, FmSILT+VFS+FS (O) and FmSILT+VFS+FS (T)) are identified based on cluster analysis supplemented with sedimentary structures observed in field and other laboratory data. Changes in hydrodynamics are further deduced based on various sedimentological parameters and their ratios leading to arrive at a depositional model.

Keywords


Lower Reaches of Narmada Valley, Late Holocene, Sedimentology, Sediment Facies, Hydrology.

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