Arc gis based cretaceous geological information system. The basin exhibits landforms of fluvial and fluviomarine plains. Two major trends of lineaments and 15 circular anomalies have been identified. Pdf lithostratigraphy, depositional history and sea. A structural basin is a largescale structural formation of rock strata formed by tectonic warping of previously flatlying strata. Cretaceous stratigraphy of outcrop sediments of the ariyalur area, cauvery basin, southern india. Sustainable water management in a river basin requires knowledge of the water availability in the basin and current and future demands. Introduction the cauvery basin extends along the south east coast.
Geoscientific study to locate hydrocarbon prospective. Lithostratigraphy, depositional history and sea level changes. Planktonic foraminifera from vridhachalam area, cauvery. It provides a quantitative description of the basin geometry to understand its slope, structural controls. A collection of these countries is commonly referred to as the middle east which is the oilrich location in the south western side of the asia continent. Arc gis based cretaceous geological information system cgis. The basin is limited with west and northwest by the basin margin fault and basement outcrops. The cauvery basin, an important indian petroliferous pericratonic mesozoic rift basin trends ne. Barremiandanian chemostratigraphic sequences of the. Hydrocarbon exploration in basement rocks heavily relies upon tectonic and structural modelling. Subramani2 1center for remote sensing, bharathidasan university,tiruchirappalli, india 2associate professor, department of mining engineering, anna university, chennai, india.
The basin spreads over 33 parliamentary constituencies 2009 comprising 18 of tamil nadu, 11 of karnataka, 3 of kerala and 1 of puducherry. Geomorphological studies of the cauvery basin, tamilnadu were carried out using irs images with special emphasis on identification of zones of hydrocarbon occurrences. Barremiandanian chemostratigraphic sequences of the cauvery basin, india. Cretaceous sediments crop out in the coastal region and consist of conglomeratic sandstone, coralline limestone, and shale.
Such structures within the younger post rift section are proven hydrocarbon plays in cauvery basin. Major geologic events of the cauvery basin, india and. Delta sedimentation east coast of india dew journal. Mine sections expose only a limited portion of this unit, as all lithostratigraphy, depositional history and sea level changes of the cauvery basin, southern india 3 table 1. The study records the occurrence of sparse but well preserved planktic foraminifera from the niniyur formation of the cauvery basin, tamil nadu, south india. The sri lankanslside of the cauvery basin is located at approximately 90110 north latitude and 790810 east longitude, lying between north to north west sri lanka and south east india, and includes adjacent on land cenozoic sedimentary cover. Systematic field mapping, collation of data on the micromeso scale lithology. Classification of indian basins and petroleum geology of. May 04, 2019 map of india showing cauvery basin, b. In terms of rock types, metamorphics and igneous rocks predominate throughout the basin which mark major events of volcanism, plutonism, metamorphism and. May 01, 2007 the cauvery basin is the southernmost basin along the eastern margin of the indian subcontinent, covering much of this part of india and extending a considerable distance offshore. Pdf on sep 1, 2017, anirbid sircar and others published geology paper. Crustal structure from gravity and magnetic anomalies in. The cauvery basin is considered to be a rift basin rangaraju et al.
Structural basins are geological depressions, and are the inverse of domes. Carboniferous of the appalachian and black warrior basins. Find materials for this course in the pages linked along the left. Basin introduction the mahanadi basin, a product of rifting and break up of gondwana land, situated on the east coast of india figs. Basement tectonics and shear zones in cauvery basin india. Sedimentary basins of india total 26 sedimentary basins have been recognized and they are divided into four categories based on their degree of hydrocarbon prospectivity. Using a geology based assessment methodology, the u. Geological survey estimated volumes of undiscovered, technically recoverable, conventional petroleum resources for the assam, bombay, cauvery, and krishnagodavari provinces, south asia. The shales are interpreted to have been deposited in marine. Classification of indian basins and petroleum geology of assam, bengal and. Lecture notes and slides introduction to geology earth. The sedimentary sequence exposed in the erstwhile tiruchirapalli district hosts a more or less complete geological record of the upper cretaceoustertiary period. The cauvery basin is the southernmost basin along the eastern margin of the indian subcontinent, covering much of this part of india and extending a considerable distance offshore.
Geological setting the cretaceous succession of cauvery basin consists of a shallow marine sequence with a very rich faunal succession of albian maastrichtian age. Classification of indian basins and petroleum geology content writer. Major geologic events of the cauvery basin, india and their. Implication of transfer zones in rift fault propagation. Some geologic reports have been published that cover part of the area adjacent to, or near, the basin, and following is a selected list of publications that give data pertinent to the area studied. Cauvery basin forms a part of the south indian shield that preserves an early formed crust. Proposed lithostratigraphy of the cretaceouspaleocene strata, cauvery basin. Prediction of pore pressure and fracture pressure in cauvery. The annual rainfall is about 300 to 500 cm in the coastal plains and the western ghats and about 80 cm on the eastern plateau. The cauvery basin is the southernmost basin along the eastern margin of the indian subcontinent. Malarkodi 1 department of geology, bangalore university, bangalore 560 056, india abstract.
Transfer zone geometry in the offshore cauvery basin. Agarkar road, pune 411004, maharashtra, india 2 bharat petroresources ltd. Like its immediate neighboring, krishnagodavari basin, mahanadi basin also has a geological extension into offshore. The paper records the occurrence of wellpreserved planktic foraminifera from vridhachalam area of the cauvery basin, tamil nadu, south india. Tectonic map of cauvery basin petroleum system modeling the petroleum system modeling study gives a better understanding of the potential petroleum systems within the basin. Our basic knowledge of the cretaceous mega fauna of the cauvery basin comes through the illustrious works of forbes 1846, stoliczka 186173 and kossmat 189598. In the present case study, geomorphometric analysis of madurai drainage basins a part of. Geology the closepet granite of the upper reaches of the cauvery basin is a pink granite consisting mainly of quartz, plagioclase, microcline, perthiteand subordinate hornblende. Cauvery basin potential source rocks in the cauvery basin include shales of the lower cretaceous andimadam formation and the lower to upper cretaceous sattapadi shale and its stratigraphic equivalents directorate general of hydrocarbons, cauvery basin, written commun.
Eocene to miocene composite total petroleum system, irrawaddyandaman and north burma geologic provinces, myanmar by c. Geomorphometric analysis of the drainage basin play a vital role in understanding the hydrogeological behavior of drainage basin and expresses the prevailing climate, geology, geomorphology and structure. Pondicherry and its surrounding lie in the drainage basin of the gingee river. Evaluation of petroleum systems of ariyalurpondicherry sub. In terms of rock types, metamorphics and igneous rocks predominate throughout the basin which mark major events of volcanism, plutonism, metamorphism and sedimentation.
Pdf biochrono and tectonic framework for the origin of ktb. The interpreted presynrift sequences have indicated phases of early inversion in the study area fig. Geochemistry of sandstones from the upper cretaceous. First record of ravity g flows from cretaceous exposures, ariyalur pondicherry area, cauvery basin, india. High sedimentation rate in the miocene section of the kg basin is found to be the main reason for overpressure development. Cretaceous tectonostratigraphy and the development of the.
An attempt has been made to study determine the groundwater quality in sarabanga sub basin, cauvery river basin of. Ram babu and prasanti lakshmi 2004 have interpreted aeromagnetic data for the regional structure and tectonics of the cauvery basin. Cauvery, moyar, bhavani, amaravathi, vaigai, tambraparani etc. Sedimentary basins range in size from as small as hundreds of meters to large parts of ocean. The exploration in this sub basin has been less intensive and better understanding of hydrocarbon generation and charge in the basin will help to explore the remaining potential. Almost entire cauvery basin has been covered with 2d3d seismic data. The sedimentary basins of india, onland and shallow offshore, up to the 200m isobath, area is about 1. Location and catchment characteristics of river cauvery river cauvery is physically perhaps the most remarkable river of the peninsular india spate et al. Basin information directorate general of hydrocarbons dgh. The objective of this study was to evaluate the petroleum potential of the cauvery basin under the sri lankan jurisdiction based on a limited dataset, which include seismic, lithostraigraphy and. The cauvery basin, a pericratonic rift basin evolved during jurassic to early cretaceous time as the eastern gondwanaland rifted. Transfer zones conserve the amount of strain between two overlapping normal faults and, thus, accommodate not only slip but also.
Eriksson2 1school of biological, earth and environmental sciences, university of new south wales, sydney nsw 2052, australia 2department of geology, university of pretoria, pretoria 0002, south africa corresponding author email. The major part of basin is covered with agricultural land accounting to 66. Arc gis, cretaceous, information system, ariyalur, cauvery basin 1. It is spread across more than 50,000 square kilometres in the krishna river and godavari river basins in andhra pradesh. The sediments and associated fauna and flora form part of the cretaceous stratigraphy in this part of the continent. Geology and stratigraphy the cauvery basin has been considered as a rift basin10, which formed due to mesozoic extension during the break up of gondwanaland11. The palynological, particulate organic material palynodebris and biopetrological aspects of the main lignite seam encountered in nle27, nle35 and nle36 borehole sections in mine iii of the neyveli lignite field of the cauvery basin were investigated. Prospectivity of cauvery basin in deep synrift sequences. Krishna godavari basin is a pericratonic passive margin basin in india. Using a geologybased assessment methodology, the u. Identification of prospective corridors in ramnad palk bay sub basin, cauvery basin, india chandan chakraborty1, d. This comprehensive book deals primarily with reflection seismic data in the hydrocarbon industry.
Structural trend of the basin is greatly influenced by the adjacent precambrian eastern ghat mobile belt and the southern granulite terrain. Implications on scales of stratigraphic correlation mu. Geoscientific study to locate hydrocarbon prospective zones in a part of cauvery basin using remote sensing and gis techniques s. Ongc started exploration in the southern peninsular basins of india during the 1950s and made its first discovery in the cauvery basin with the madanam gas field in 1970. The nwse trend appears to be younger and might have played an important role in. Cretaceous nano fossils of sivaganga formations of cauvery. Jul 30, 2019 map of india showing cauvery basin, b. Geology the geology of the drainage basin is predominantly formed from precambrian rocks, principally the dharwarspeninsular granitic gneiss, charnockites and the closepet granite. The basin formed by breakup of eastern gondwana landmass in late jurassic to early cretaceous. Cauvery basin forms a part of the south indian shield that preserves an early formed crust ma. The geoloyg area of the basin is about 58, km 2 which is. The cauvery rises in the brahmagiri range of the western ghats. Hydrocarbon exploration of syn rift sediments in nagapattinam.
The basin comprises several depressions, or subbasins, with the ariyalurpondicherry depression in the north. Geology of the ariyalurpondicherry sub basin the ariyalurpondicherry sub basin is the northern most basement graben of cauvery basin and is separated. More than 6000 m pile of sediments belonging to permian to recent age is well preserved in the basin. Assessment of undiscovered oil and gas resources of the assam.
It illustrates the maturation of a source rock and the migration into potential traps. The basin consists of a 6 km thick pile of sediments deposited on achaean basement and is situated along the southeast coast of india10. Assessment of undiscovered oil and gas resources of the. The cauvery basin came into existence due to gondwana break up during late jurassicearly cretaceous by taphrogenic rift process. Karaikkal is located in the fertile cauvery delta and is fed by the waters of arasalar, nattar, vanjiyar and nandalar. First record of ravity g flows from cretaceous exposures. The cauvery basin in the southern part of india forms a major oil province with a basement that has been deformed multiple times with parts of it hosting oil. Research articles influence of deccan volcanism in the. Cauvery basin forms a part of the south indian shield that preserves an early formed crust 2500 ma. The state experiences humid tropical to semi arid climate for most part of the year. Lithostratigraphy, depositional history and sea level. Atlas of structural geological interpretation from seismic. A part of this basin lies between india and sri lanka. Early albian ammonites from the karai formation, cauvery.
Cretaceous stratigraphy of outcrop sediments of the. Pdf cretaceous stratigraphy of outcrop sediments of the. Geomorphology and petroleum prospects of cauvery basin. The pore pressure in cauvery basin is shown to be almost hydrostatic in nature, which is due to normal sedimentation rate. But implicit in the concept of a sedimentary basin is the existence of.
World petroleum resources project assessment of potential. Oct 09, 2010 cauvery basin the cauvery basin, situated 160 to 460 km south of madras city, encompasses an area of 25,000 sq. Understanding the deep synrift petroleum systems of. Like its immediate neighboring, krishnagodavari basin, mahanadi basin also has a geological.
The cauvery basin is an intracratonic rift basin, divided into a number of subparallel horsts and graben, trending in nesw direction vasudevan et al, 1998. Geological settings of cauvery basin the cauvery basin forms the southwestern margin of the jurassic rift of the east coast of india figure 1. Malarkodi department of geology, bangalore university, bangalore 560 056, india abstract. During the late jurassic, a pericratonic basin with synrift and postrift sedimentation evolved in the cauvery basin in southern india. Thereafter, numerous contributions have been made on the diverse geological aspects including palaeontology and stratigraphy of the cauvery basin blanford, 1862. Transfer zones conserve the amount of strain between two overlapping normal faults and, thus, accommodate not only slip but also elevation variances of the adjoining foot wall blocks. The site is known for the d6 block where reliance industries discovered the biggest natural gas reserves in. Geological map of the ariyalur sub basin showing the distribution of cretaceous and tertiary formations modified after. Cauvery basin is a pericratonic basin extending over 50,000 km 2 both in on land and offshore up to 2000 m bathymetry. Pdf major geologic events of the cauvery basin, india. Geology and ore deposits of the sultan basin, snohomish.
Late jurassic fragmentation of eastern gondwanaland into india, antarctica, and australia had initiated the formation of mesozoic rift basins on the east coast of india including cauvery basin. Subrahmanyam et al 1995 has presented offshore magnetic anomalies of cauvery basin. The geoloyg area of the basin is about 58, km 2 which is about three percent of the culturable area of the country. Transfer zone geometry in the offshore cauvery basin, india. Cgis is a user friendly to address the cretaceous geology for multiple applications in scientific investigations, petroleum and mining industries. Eocene to miocene composite total petroleum system, irrawaddy. It provides structural geological examples with fullcolor illustrations and explanations so that.
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