Structures and sequences in early Permian fluvial Barakar rocks of peninsular India Gondwana basins using binomial and Markov chain analysis

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• 作者：Ram Chandra Tewari ; Z. A. Khan
• 关键词：Early Permian ; Gondwana ; Binomial ; Markov chain ; Hydrodynamics
• 刊名：Arabian Journal of Geosciences
• 出版年：2017
• 出版时间：January 2017
• 年：2017
• 卷：10
• 期：1
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• 刊物类别：Earth and Environmental Science
• 刊物主题：Earth Sciences, general;
• 出版者：Springer Berlin Heidelberg
• ISSN：1866-7538
• 卷排序：10

文摘

Cyclic characteristics of bed forms (sedimentary structures) of early Permian fluvial Barakar rocks are studied statistically, using quasi-independence Markov chain and entropy. The hierarchy of sedimentary structures confirms that the corresponding bed forms do not represent random depositional event and follow a definite pattern of Markovian mechanism in a predictable cyclic arrangement. The preferential upward transition of sedimentary structures that can be derived for the Barakar sandstone is scoured surface (Ss) → horizontal bedding (Sh) → planar cross-bedded sandstone (Sp) → trough cross-bedded sandstone (St) → ripple cross-lamination (Sr) → parallel lamination (Fl) → scoured surface (Ss). The sequence is an asymmetrical cycle and characteristic of the lateral accretion and aggradations of fluvial channels. Entropy analysis corroborate the above inference, and E (pre) vs E(post) plots for each sedimentary structure correspond to the type B category, suggesting lower and upper truncated asymmetrical cycles. Hydro-dynamically, the Barakar cycles represent a vertical sequence of bedding types which implies a steady upward decrease in the intensity of flow—from the upper flow regime in the lower part, the lower flow regime of moderate to high intensity in the middle part, and the lower flow regime of low to very low intensity in the upper part.