A first report on tuff beds from the Owk Shale in the Proterozoic Kurnool sub-basin in southern India is presented. The rhyolitic to rhodacitic tufts, overlying shelfal limestones formed at depths below storm wave bas...A first report on tuff beds from the Owk Shale in the Proterozoic Kurnool sub-basin in southern India is presented. The rhyolitic to rhodacitic tufts, overlying shelfal limestones formed at depths below storm wave base, have rheomorphie features indicative of viscoplastic flow, and geochem- ical signatures of rhyolitic to rhyodacitic unwelded to welded tufts, similar to those described from other Proterozoic intracratonic basins like Vindhyan and Chhattisgarh basins in India. Fragmentary nature of altered glass with perlitic cracks and local admixture with intrabasinal sediments suggest phreatomag- matic reactions. The widespread and repeated occurrences of felsic tufts in these basins, possibly derived from low degree melting of continental crust, suggest intermittent tectonothermal instability which likely influenced basinal topography and cyclic development of the carbonate platforms.展开更多
基金supported by the Indian Statistical Institute(ISI), Kolkata in the form of several research grants to DS during the past decadeVT acknowledges a senior research fellowship granted by ISI during the initial stage of the worka DST grant(SR/S4/ES-307/2007) which partly supported this work
文摘A first report on tuff beds from the Owk Shale in the Proterozoic Kurnool sub-basin in southern India is presented. The rhyolitic to rhodacitic tufts, overlying shelfal limestones formed at depths below storm wave base, have rheomorphie features indicative of viscoplastic flow, and geochem- ical signatures of rhyolitic to rhyodacitic unwelded to welded tufts, similar to those described from other Proterozoic intracratonic basins like Vindhyan and Chhattisgarh basins in India. Fragmentary nature of altered glass with perlitic cracks and local admixture with intrabasinal sediments suggest phreatomag- matic reactions. The widespread and repeated occurrences of felsic tufts in these basins, possibly derived from low degree melting of continental crust, suggest intermittent tectonothermal instability which likely influenced basinal topography and cyclic development of the carbonate platforms.
