Title: Environment of paleomire of lignite seams of Bikaner-Nagaur basin, Rajasthan (W. India): petrological implications

Authors: Pramod K. Rajak; Vijay K. Singh; Prakash K. Singh; Mahendra P. Singh; Alok K. Singh

Addresses: Coal and Organic Petrology Lab, Center for Advanced Study in Geology, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi-221005, India ' Coal and Organic Petrology Lab, Center for Advanced Study in Geology, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi-221005, India ' Coal and Organic Petrology Lab, Center for Advanced Study in Geology, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi-221005, India ' Coal and Organic Petrology Lab, Center for Advanced Study in Geology, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi-221005, India ' Rajiv Gandhi Institute of Petroleum Technology, Rae Bareli, 229316, Uttar Pradesh, India

Abstract: Petrological and chemical investigations of lignites from the Bikaner-Nagaur Basin, Rajasthan (Western India) have been undertaken to understand their petrographic characteristics and the paleomire. The huminite reflectance (VRr) (0.21-0.26%) put these lignites as 'low rank C' coals. Huminite is the most abundant maceral group which is dominated by detrohuminite (densinite and attrinite). Telohuminite (chiefly ulminite-A and ulminite-B) occurs next in abundance. Liptinite and inertinite occur in subordinated amount. High GI and low TPI values indicate a continuous wet condition in the basin with a slow rate of subsidence. However, Gurha lignites, suffered few spell of relatively drier period as revealed by increased inertinite content in few bands. The study indicates a limno-telmatic swamp and a slow fall in ground water table. Petrography based models suggest a wet moor condition having a moderate flooding with increasing bacterial activity that prevailed under coastal-marshy setting during the transgressive phase. [Received: February 18, 2017; Accepted: September 21, 2017]

Keywords: paleomire; lignite; Rajasthan; petrology.

DOI: 10.1504/IJOGCT.2019.102782

International Journal of Oil, Gas and Coal Technology, 2019 Vol.22 No.2, pp.218 - 245

Received: 18 Feb 2017
Accepted: 21 Sep 2017
Published online: 07 Oct 2019 *

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