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Paleozoic Stratigraphy Overview

The document discusses the significance of the Paleozoic world, highlighting the proliferation of life, mass extinctions, and the formation of coal and oil reserves. It also covers geological concepts such as cratons, shields, platforms, and basins, along with plate tectonic movements from the Neoproterozoic to the Devonian. Additionally, it mentions lithologic facies of the Cambrian period, particularly in relation to the Grand Canyon.

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Paleozoic Stratigraphy Overview

The document discusses the significance of the Paleozoic world, highlighting the proliferation of life, mass extinctions, and the formation of coal and oil reserves. It also covers geological concepts such as cratons, shields, platforms, and basins, along with plate tectonic movements from the Neoproterozoic to the Devonian. Additionally, it mentions lithologic facies of the Cambrian period, particularly in relation to the Grand Canyon.

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Principles of Stratigraphy (ES301)

Dr. Hiranya Sahoo


Assistant Professor
Dept of Earthsciences,
Office: Room No 310, ESB-3
Email: hiranya@[Link]
The Paleozoic World
~6-7%

• Significant?
The Paleozoic world –whether and
why significant?
The Paleozoic world –whether
and why significant?

• Proliferation and diversification of life


(flora and fauna)
• Mass extinctions
• Coal
• Oil and Gas reserves
Gross Depositional Environment of Gondwana Supergroup

Representative image of Jharia coal field, Jharkhand


Plate Tectonics:
India

• Plate
characteristics
What is a Craton?

• Stable interior
part of a
continent,
typically billion
years old
What is a Shield?

• areas of cratons that expose Precambrian-age (~


billion years old) crystalline igneous and high-
grade metamorphic rocks

Craton
Shield
Canadian Shield
What is a Platform?

• areas of cratons that are covered by sedimentary


rocks (younger deposition)
What is a Basin?
• Any depression (low-lying area) where
deposition/filling takes place.

Basin Types in relation to Plate Tectonics


PLATE TECTONIC
MOVEMENTS FROM
THE
NEOPROTEROZOIC
TO THE DEVONIAN
(750 MY TO 370MY)

BREAK UP OF RODINIA
OPENING OF IAPETUS
CLOSING OF IAPETUS
ACADIAN OROGENY
The Early Paleozoic World
LITHOLOGIC FACIES OF THE CAMBRIAN

The transgression of the


Cambrian is visible in the
rocks of the Grand Canyon,
USA
LITHOLOGIC
FACIES OF THE
CAMBRIAN

Likely
Platform

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