Paleomagnetic analysis of the Marwar Supergroup,Rajasthan, India and proposed interbasinal correlations |
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| Institution: | 1. Department of Geological Sciences, University of Florida, 355 Williamson Hall, Gainesville, Fl 32611, USA;2. Jackson School of Geosciences, University of Texas-Austin, Austin, TX, USA;3. Department of Geology, University of Rajasthan, Jaipur 302004, Rajasthan, India;1. Institute of South China Sea, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou 510301, China;2. Key Laboratory of Orogenic Belt and Crustal Evolution, Ministry of Education, School of Earth and Space Sciences, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China;3. State Key Laboratory of Lithospheric Evolution, Institute of Geology and Geophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100029, China;1. State Key Laboratory of Biogeology and Environmental Geology, China University of Geosciences, Beijing 100083, China;2. School of Earth Sciences and Resources, China University of Geosciences, Beijing 100083, China;3. Institute of Geomechanics, Chinese Academy of Geological Science, Beijing 100081, China;1. Academy of Scientific and Innovative Research (AcSIR), CSIR-NGRI, Uppal Road, Hyderabad, Telangana 500007, India;2. CSIR-National Geophysical Research Institute, Uppal Road, Hyderabad, Telangana 500007, India;1. Department of Earth Sciences, University of California, Riverside, CA 92521, USA;2. Department of Geology, Colorado College, Colorado Springs, CO 80903, USA;3. Department of Geology and Geophysics, Yale University, New Haven, CT 06520, USA;4. Department of Geological Sciences, Jackson School of Geosciences, University of Texas at Austin, TX 78712, USA;5. Department of Geosciences, Virginia Polytechnic Institute, Blacksburg, VA, 24061, USA;6. Department of Geology, Delhi University, Delhi 110007, India |
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| Abstract: | The Marwar Supergroup refers to a 1000–2000 m thick marine and coastal sequence that covers a vast area of Rajasthan in NW–India. The Marwar Basin uncomformably overlies the ～750–770 Ma rocks of the Malani Igneous Suite and is therefore considered Late Neoproterozoic to Early Cambrian in age. Upper Vindhyan basinal sediments (Bhander and Rewa Groups), exposed in the east and separated by the Aravalli–Delhi Fold Belt, have long been assumed to coeval with the Marwar Supergroup. Recent studies based on detrital zircon populations of the Marwar and Upper Vindhyan sequences show some similarity in the older populations, but the Vindhyan sequence shows no zircons younger than 1000 Ma whereas samples taken from the Marwar Basin show distinctly younger zircons. This observation led to speculation that the Upper Vindhyan and Marwar sequences did not develop coevally.While there are alternative explanations for why the two basins may differ in their detrital zircon populations, paleomagnetic studies may provide independent evidence for differences/similarities between the assumed coeval basins. We have collected samples in the Marwar Basin and present the paleomagnetic results. Previous paleomagnetic studies of Marwar basinal sediments were misinterpreted as being indistinguishable from the Upper Vindhyan sequence. The vast majority of our samples show directional characteristics similar to the previously published studies. We interpret these results to be a recent overprint. A small subset of hematite-bearing rocks from the Jodhpur Formation (basal Marwar) exhibit directional data (Dec = 89° Inc = ?1° α95 = 9°) that are distinct from the Upper Vindhyan pole and may offer additional support for temporally distinct episodes of sedimentation in these proximal regions. A VGP based upon our directional data is reported at 1°S 344°E (dp = 5°, dm = 9°). We conclude that the Marwar Supergroup developed near the close of the Ediacaran Period and is part of a larger group of sedimentary basins that include the Huqf Supergroup (Oman), the Salt-Range (Pakistan), the Krol–Tal belt (Himalayas) and perhaps the Molo Supergroup (Madagascar). |
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| Keywords: | Gondwana Paleomagnetism Purana India Marwar Vindhyan |
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