Anil M Pophare

Rashtrasant Tukadoji Maharaj Nagpur University · Department of Geology

Erai river is one of the major tributaries of Wardha River in central India which palace on the sedimentary landscape. The Erai river basin is divided into four sub-watersheds viz. EWL-I, EWL-II, EWR-I and EWR-II. Quantitative approach of watershed development of the Erai river basin and its four sub-watersheds was carried out using Survey of India...

Morna river is a tributary of the Purna river and forms the B13TAU031 sub-watersheds, which is part of Upper Tapi sub-basin. It is situated in the south-eastern part of the Akola district. Overlay analysis of various thematic maps viz., geology, lineaments/ fracture, geomorphology, slope and land use/land cover were used to identify groundwater pot...

This paper focuses on a granulometric study conducted to investigate the sedimentary characteristics of channel sediments in the upper, middle, and lower reaches of the Kolar River Sub-basin. The study's primary objective is to gain a detailed understanding of sediment transport by seamlessly integrating field surveys and laboratory analyses. The s...

The NW-SE trending mafic dykes intrude the Amgaon gneisses and Dongargarh granite in Wairagarh area of the Western Bastar Craton (WBC). These dykes consist of mainly the clinopyroxene, plagioclase feldspar and minor amphiboles and titano-magnetite. These are metamorphosed to green schist facies. The mafic dykes show tholeiitic trend on multivariate...

The present work was carried out for geological and geochemical characterisation of felsic volcanic rocks of Betul-Chhindwara Crystalline Complex in Central India. These felsic volcanic rocks belong to Bargaon Group and of Meso to Paleoproterozoic age. Field and petrographic study reveals that the felsic volcanics are broadly classified as pink and...

Grain size analysis of 40 samples of Barakar and Motur sandstone in Satpura-Gondwana basin, Central India was carried out by sieving analysis and employing statistical technique. The Barakar and Motur sediments are mostly medium grained, poorly to moderately sorted, very fine skewed to very coarse skewed and leptokurtic to mesokurtic in nature. Sta...

An investigation has been carried out at Raniganj coalfield for the insights of Coal Bed Methane (CBM) produced water compositional changes during advancement of methane production including the influence of rock dissolution and water-rock interaction. The high concentrations of Na and HCO is sourced from multiple geo-controlled activities like dis...

The morphometric and hypsometric analysis of the five sub-watersheds of WR-2 watershed, Amravati district, Maharashtra was carried out to study the erosional landforms and their significance in prioritization of artificial recharge structure in groundwater management plan. Morphometric and hypsometric parameters are used to study the stream network...

Groundwater quality provides clues on geologic history of water, its influence on the soil or rock masses through which it has passed. This is reflected in the chemical constituents of groundwater. Classification of groundwater based on drinking, domestic and irrigation purposes is thus important before its utilisation. Various prevailing diagrams,...

The Gondwana sequence in Satpura basin comprises Talchir, Barakar, Motur and Bijori formations. Palaeocurrent data evaluated from cross bedding as directional measure confined to Permian Barakar and Motur formations in Satpura basin. Palaeocurrent analysis deduced from 1700 cross stratification from Barakar and Motur formations yielded northerly an...

The present study was undertaken to evaluate the groundwater quality of the villages in the vicinity of Umrer coal mines area, Nagpur district, Maharashtra. Total 15 groundwater samples were collected during pre and post-monsoon seasons of 2016 from various borewells and dugwells at different location. These samples were analysed to ascertain their...

The Betul crystalline complex (BCC) forms a conspicuous litho-tectonic unit of the Central Indian Tectonic Zone (CITZ). The BCC occurs in central part of CITZ in between the northern Mahakoshal belt and southern Sausar belt and comprises of three distinct rock associations, i) Supracrustal rocks, ii) Mafic-Ultramafic suites and iii) Syn-to post-kin...

Lineament analysis of the area around Salbardi fault and adjoining region of Betul District, Madhya Pradesh and Amravati District of Maharashtra was carried out using shaded relief images derived from digital elevation model (DEM). Arc GIS software (version 10.3) has been used for extracting eight hill-shaded image of Sun angles 0°, 45°, 90°, 135°a...

This study has been taken up to identify the groundwater recharge potential zones, to be used for better and improved groundwater resources. The thematic layers were first digitized from satellite imagery, supported by ancillary data such as topo -sheets and field investigation data. Groundwater recharge is a basic pre-requisite for efficient groun...

Abstract Hypsometric analysis of an over exploited watershed (WR-2), situated in a basaltic terrain of Amravati district, Maharashtra has been carried out to determine its vulnerability to erosion and prioritize it for treatment. The WR-2 watershed has been divided into Zari, Chudamani, Shakti, Dhawagiri and Kobi sub-watersheds. The hypsometric int...

Abstract Hydrochemical studies of groundwater from the Suketi river basin is carried out by collecting 31 water samples from various sources including dug wells, tube wells, bore wells and springs during pre-monsoon (May) and post-monsoon (November) seasons of 2009. Five surface water samples from the perennial rivers of the basin were also collect...

The Pitepani volcanic suite of the Dongargarh Supergroup, central India comprises of a calc-alkaline suite and a tholeiitic suite, respectively. The rare earth element (REE) patterns, mantle normalized plots and relict clinopyroxene chemistry of the Pitepani calc-alkaline suite are akin to high-Mg andesites (HMA) and reveal remarkable similarity to...

The Chauras Belt is located towards the southern part of Bhandara District, Maharashtra State, India. This belt is covered under two elementary watersheds. WG-11 and WGC-6. The watershed WG-11 was categorized as over exploited due to excessive withdrawal of groundwater from its aquifers. The effects of groundwater over exploitation can be gauged th...

The East Bokaro CBM block is one of the most promising area for bituminous rank coal bed methane production in India. This work investigates the coal seams of Barakar and Karharbari Formations for measuring their in-situ gas content, maceral composition, thermal maturity (Ro%), gas composition and its controlling parameters. The depth of coal core...

The archaean and Palaeoproterozoic iron formations are deposited in different geological settings consisting predominantly of interbanded iron and silica rich layers and in relatively deep water environment. Iron Formations (IF) are most distinctive rock types of Precambrian preserved in different Purana basins of India viz. Cuddapah, Pakhal, Bhima...

Keywords: Limestone breccia, Gojoli, Penganga Group, Pranhita-Godavari valley, Maharashtra. The Gojoli breccia is one of the interesting geological features being reported from the limestones of Penganga Group of eastern flank of Pranhita-Godavari (PG) valley, Chandrapur District, Maharashtra. The limestone breccia is located along terrain boundary...

Keywords: Sulphur, Barakar Formation, Permianage, Kamptee Coalfield, Central India The study of genesis and forms of sulphur in coal seams is vital before its utilisation as many of the pollutants are associated with it. Understanding of the forms of sulphur in coal, particularly the amount of pyrite shows the amenability towards its reduction by p...

Keywords : Coal cores, Bhivakund block, Wardha Valley Coalfield, Central India The study of borehole coal cores involves visual separation of different bands present in the coal seams and its characterisation for qualitative and quantitative estimation of exploitable reserves of the coal block. The band wise study of the coal seams of Bhivkund bloc...

This Special Volume No. 1 contains 35 peer reviewed research papers and 35 abstracts

The graphite-tungsten deposits under consideration in this study are located in the Burugubanda, Pydiputta, Tapasikonda, Marripalem and Madyaratigudem areas of the East Godavari district of Andhra Pradesh, India. These deposits were formed due to wide spread tectonothermal events associated with the evolution of Eastern Ghats Mobile Belt (EGMB). Th...

The WR-2 watershed is located in the Deccan trap basaltic terrain of Maharashtra State, India. The watershed area incorporates a rich orange orchard belt that requires a huge quantity of water for irriga-tion. This requirement is mostly met through groundwater, extracted from the shallow aquifers of the WR-2 watershed. However, over the years, exce...

Suketi river basin is located in the Mandi district of Himachal Pradesh, India. It encompasses a central inter-montane valley and surrounding mountainous terrain in the Lower Himachal Himalaya. Morpho-metric analysis of the Suketi river basin was carried out to study its drainage characteristics and overall groundwater resource potential. The entir...

Recent changes in land use practices, such as increase in orange orchards in central India, has put undue pressure on the groundwater resources. Excess withdrawal from the aquifers has resulted in groundwater table decline. The stage of groundwater development in some watersheds has reached 155.85 %, converting these into overexploited watersheds....

The Bastar craton of central India is an important proto-continental nuclei of the global Archaean record (Bleeker, 2003; Naqvi, 2005). It is flanked by the ENE-WSW trending Central Indian Tectonic Zone (CITZ) towards the north, and is crosscut by the N-S to NNE-SSW trending Kotri lineament that geographically corresponds to a collage of Archaean/...

Assessment of hydrochemical parameters of groundwater is an important environmental issue in the study area of Katol and Kondhali villages. In this area, rapid growth of population, frequent failure of rainfall and consequent over-exploitation of groundwater resources has lead to water scarcity. Moreover, application of pesticides and fertilizers i...

The Neoarchaean Dongargarh mobile belt of central India is characterised by the Dongargarh batholith, an older Nandgaon bimodal volcanic suite and younger Khairagarh volcano-sedimentary sequence. The Dongargarh batholiths are disparate bodies of granites. The most widespread facies of Dongargarh granites are represented by the A-type granites, whic...

Hydrogeology has primary concerned with the mode of accumulation, distribution and chemistry of groundwater in relation to geological environment. Geological framework broadly governs the occurrence and movement of groundwater below the surface. Fluoride rich minerals decompose and dissociate from the source rock into groundwater during the rock-wa...

The Bilji Rhyolies, are poorly sorted and pyroclastic deposits which form an integral part of the Nandgaon Group in the Dongargarh Supergroup, Central India. They are basically High-silica igneous ignimbrites and tuffs. Till date, a within plate rifting tectonic environment for the Nandgoan bimodal volcanic suite has been taken for granted. However...

The Dongargarh Bimodal Volcanic Province and the Large Igneous Province conundrum DEEPANKER ASTHANA1*, ANIL POPHARE2 TONY CRAWFORD3 AND DIPALI KANOJKAR2 1Department of AGL, I S M Dhanbad-826004, India (*correspondence: dasthana@hotmail.com) 2Department of Geology, Nagpur University, MS-440001, India (apophare@yahoo.com, dipalikk@gmail.com) 3School...

Coal properties like combustion, carbonisation and liquefaction are governed by their petrographic characters and maceral content. The study of nature and content of macerals give an insight into not only the nature of coal but also the mode of deposition and coalification. The present study is aimed at knowing the depositional environments of sele...

The highly diversified occurrence and substantial variation in the accessibility and utilization of groundwater in India, makes its management a complex task. The present study was carried out in an over exploited WR-2 watershed in Warud taluka, Amravati district, Maharashtra. This study emphasizes the need to adopt a systematic, economically viabl...

Rock assemblages exposed in the Burugubanda graphite deposit area of the East Godavari district, Andhra Pradesh consist of feldspathic gneisses, graphite gneisses, pegmatites, quartz sillimanite schists (khondalite) and basic pyroxene granulites (charnockite). These rocks are confined within the Central Migmatite Zone (CMZ) of the Eastern Ghats Mob...

The coal seams of Sawang Colliery, East Bokaro Coalfields are bituminous to sub-bituminous in nature and categorized as high gaseous seams (degree II to degree III level). These seams have the potential for coal bed methane (CBM) and their maturity increases with increasing depth, as a result of enhanced pressure-temperature conditions in the under...

Studies pertaining to groundwater quality were carried out in eastern and southeastern parts of Rajura Tehsil to check its suitability for + drinking and irrigation purpose. Results of the analyses indicate that Na is dominant cation and its concentration is relatively higher in pre-monsoon season, which may be attributed to negative index of base-...

Groundwater is an important resource for domestic, industrial and agricultural utility. Intensive exploitation of groundwater, without estimation of periodic recharge and available groundwater storage results into depletion in groundwater levels. The increasing gap between demand and supply of water stimulate alarming signals towards the need for c...

Groundwater Samples from fifteen villages of Bhadravati Tehsil, Chandrapur District of Maharashtra were collected from both shallow-and deep aquifers and analyzed for fluoride (F) concentration. In the study area rocks belonging to Gondwana Supergroup and Lameta-Formation are dominant, while Alluvium occurs along the river channels. The concentrati...

The term reserve and resource are used to signify the estimates of quantity of minerals present in ore deposits. These estimated quantities of minerals have been classified according to their economic significance or commercial extraction potential. Classification of reserves and resources is a complex exercise. Various factors affect this classifi...

India is endowed with a wide range of industrial resources and mineral wealth. Mining operations are spread out almost all over the country for extraction of around 64 major minerals from more than 3100 mines ( excluding atomic, minor minerals, petroleum and natural gas ) ( IMYB, 2004 ). Chromite is one of the important metallic minerals in which t...

Geodynamic implications of Petrogenesis of High-Mg Andesites in Central Indian Craton

Reply to the comments of Dr Hemant Pandey on our research article.

Crustal evolution of Central India in particular and the Late Archean-Early Proterozoic global tectonics in general

We report here the petrotectonic implications of interstratified low-Ti and high-Ti volcanics in the Khairagarh metabasalts of Sitagota Syncline, Central India. The low-Ti volcanics have higher CaO/TiO2, Al2O3/TiO2 ratios and LILE (?), LREE, Zr, Hf, and Cr concentration and distinct negative Eu anomalies, and lower FeOT/MgO, P, V, Sc, HREE than hig...