Textural Characteristics and Microtexture of Sediments from Vettar River Mouth, Tamil Nadu, India: Implication for Depositional Environment and Provenance

S. Venkatesan¹ , P. Parthasarathy² , R. Rajmohan³ , S. Sigarasubramanian⁴ , A. Rajkumar⁵

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Vol.7 , Issue.3 , pp.64-70, Mar-2021

Online published on Mar 31, 2021

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Abstract :
The research aims is to examine the textural, microtexture and heavy mineral content present in the sediments from the mouth of the Vetter River, near Karaikkal, Tamil Nadu, India. Textural studies reveal that 93.75% of the samples shows fine sand nature which is found dominant and 6.25% of the samples fall under the very fine sand category. 62.5% of the sample is found as moderately well sorted resulted from sorting. Skewness is ranging from positive to negative skewed (-0.135 ? to 1.053?). The kurtosis nature of the sediments values varies from mesokurtic (31.25%) platykurtic (37%), leptokurtic nature (25%) and very leptokurtic (6.25%). The result of Linear Discriminant Function (LDF) shows that the sediments were predominantly deposited through the fluvial process under a shallow disturbing environment which is carried by turbidity action. CM diagram results suggest that most of the samples are fall under bottom suspension and rolling whereas the remaining sample shows rolling condition. In sand grain, the microtextural study reveals the following condition such as conchoidal fractures, grooves, chemical alteration, angular to subangular grains, which shows that these sand grains were influenced under tropical condition. Heavy minerals present in this area are opaque and non-opaque minerals, which are understood from igneous and metamorphic rocks.

Key-Words / Index Term :
Textural Characteristics, CM pattern, Heavy mineral, SEM, Vettar River

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