We report a new zircon U–Pb age of 1257 ± 6 Ma for the Punugodu granite (PG) pluton in the Eastern Dharwar Craton (EDC), Southern India. The Mesoproterozoic PG is alkali feldspar hypersolvus granite ...emplaced at shallow crustal level, as evident from the presence of rhyodacite xenoliths and hornfelsic texture developed in the metavolcanic country rocks of the Neoarchaean Nellore Schist Belt (NSB). Geochemically, the PG is metaluminous, ferroan and alkali-calcic, and is characterized by high SiO2 and Na2O + K2O, Ga/Al ratios >2.6, high-field-strength elements and rare earth element (REE) contents with low CaO, MgO and Sr, indicating its similarity to anorogenic, alkali (A-type) granite. The highly fractionated REE patterns with negative europium anomalies of PG reflect its evolved nature and feldspar fractionation. Mafic (MME) to hybrid (HME) microgranular enclaves represent distinct batches of mantle-derived magmas that interacted, mingled and undercooled within the partly crystalline PG host magma. Felsic microgranular enclaves (FME) having similar mineralogical and geochemical characteristics to the host PG most likely represent fragments of marginal rock facies of the PG pluton. The PG appears to be formed from an oceanic island basalt (OIB)-like source in an anorogenic, within-plate setting. The emplacement of PG (c. 1257 Ma) in the vicinity of Mesoproterozoic Kanigiri Ophiolite (c. 1334 Ma) shows an age gap of nearly 77 Ma, which probably suggests PG emplacement in an extensional environment along a terrain boundary at the western margin of the Neoarchaean NSB in the EDC.
Recently introduced microwave plasma-atomic emission spectroscopy (MP-AES) represents yet another and very important addition to the existing array of modern instrumental analytical techniques. In ...this study, an attempt is made to summarize the performance characteristics of MP-AES and its potential as an analytical tool for environmental studies with some practical examples from Patancheru and Uppal industrial sectors of Hyderabad city. A range of soil, sediment, water reference materials, particulate matter, and real-life samples were chosen to evaluate the performance of this new analytical technique. Analytical wavelengths were selected considering the interference effects of other concomitant elements present in different sample solutions. The detection limits for several elements were found to be in the range from 0.05 to 5 ng/g. The trace metals analyzed in both the sectors followed the topography with more pollution in the low-lying sites. The metal contents were found to be more in ground waters than surface waters. Since a decade, the pollutants are transfered from Patancheru industrial area to Musi River. After polluting Nakkavagu and turning huge tracts of agricultural lands barren besides making people residing along the rivulet impotent and sick, industrialists of Patancheru are shifting the effluents to downstream of Musi River through an 18-km pipeline from Patancheru. Since the effluent undergoes primary treatment at Common Effluent Treatment Plant (CETP) at Patanchru and travels through pipeline and mixes with sewage, the organic effluents will be diluted. But the inorganic pollutants such as heavy and toxic metals tend to accumulate in the environmental segments near and downstreams of Musi River. The data generated by MP-AES of toxic metals like Zn, Cu, and Cr in the ground and surface waters can only be attributed to pollution from Patancheru since no other sources are available to Musi River.
Opencast coal mining produces trash of soil and rock containing various minerals, that are usually dumped nearby the abandoned sites which causes severe environmental concern including the production ...of acid mine drainage (AMD) through oxidation pyrite minerals. The current study entailed assessing the potential production of AMD from an opencast coal mining region in Northeast part of India. In order to have a comprehensive overview of the AMD problem in Makum coalfield, the physico-chemical, geochemical, and petrological characteristics of the coal and overburden (OB) samples collected from the Makum coalfield (Northeast India) were thoroughly investigated. The maceral compositions reveal that coal features all three groups of macerals (liptinite, vitrinite, and inertinite), with a high concentration of liptinite indicating the coal of perhydrous, thereby rendering it more reactive. Pyrite (FeS
2
) oxidation kinetics were studied by conducting the aqueous leaching experiments of coal and (OB) samples to interpret the chemical weathering under controlled laboratory conditions of various temperature and time periods, and to replicate the actual mine site leaching. Inductively coupled plasma-optical emission spectroscopy (ICP-OES) was operated to detect the disposal of some precarious elements from coal and OB samples to the leachates during our controlled leaching experiment. The Rare earth element (REE) enrichment in the samples shows the anthropogenic incorporation of the REE in the coal and OB. These experiments reveal the change in conductivity, acid producing tendency, total dissolved solid(TDS), total Iron(Fe) and dissolved Sulfate(SO
4
2−
) ions on progress of the leaching experiments. Moreover, the discharge of FeS
2
via atmospheric oxidation in laboratory condition undergoes a significant growth with the rise of temperature of the reaction systems in the environment and follows pseudo first order kinetics. A bio-remediative strategies is also reported in this paper to mitigate AMD water by employing size-segregated powdered limestone and water hyacinth plant in an indigenously developed site-specific prototype station. Apart from neutralisation of AMD water, this eco-friendly AMD remediation strategy demonstrates a reduction in PHEs concentrations in the treated AMD water.
IODP Expedition 340 successfully drilled a series of sites offshore Montserrat, Martinique and Dominica in the Lesser Antilles from March to April 2012. These are among the few drill sites gathered ...around volcanic islands, and the first scientific drilling of large and likely tsunamigenic volcanic island‐arc landslide deposits. These cores provide evidence and tests of previous hypotheses for the composition and origin of those deposits. Sites U1394, U1399, and U1400 that penetrated landslide deposits recovered exclusively seafloor sediment, comprising mainly turbidites and hemipelagic deposits, and lacked debris avalanche deposits. This supports the concepts that i/ volcanic debris avalanches tend to stop at the slope break, and ii/ widespread and voluminous failures of preexisting low‐gradient seafloor sediment can be triggered by initial emplacement of material from the volcano. Offshore Martinique (U1399 and 1400), the landslide deposits comprised blocks of parallel strata that were tilted or microfaulted, sometimes separated by intervals of homogenized sediment (intense shearing), while Site U1394 offshore Montserrat penetrated a flat‐lying block of intact strata. The most likely mechanism for generating these large‐scale seafloor sediment failures appears to be propagation of a decollement from proximal areas loaded and incised by a volcanic debris avalanche. These results have implications for the magnitude of tsunami generation. Under some conditions, volcanic island landslide deposits composed of mainly seafloor sediment will tend to form smaller magnitude tsunamis than equivalent volumes of subaerial block‐rich mass flows rapidly entering water. Expedition 340 also successfully drilled sites to access the undisturbed record of eruption fallout layers intercalated with marine sediment which provide an outstanding high‐resolution data set to analyze eruption and landslides cycles, improve understanding of magmatic evolution as well as offshore sedimentation processes.
Key Points:
First drilling of large and likely tsunamigenic volcanic island‐arc landslides
Distal landslide deposits recovered seafloor sediment (turbidite, hemipelagic)
Debris avalanche emplacement can trigger voluminous seafloor sediment failure
In the present study, an attempt was made to study the levels of platinum (Pt), palladium (Pd), and rhodium (Rh) in respirable suspended particulate matter samples and respective blood samples of ...occupationally exposed traffic personnel in selected sites of Hyderabad city. The maximum concentration of platinum group elements in air dust samples of Hyderabad city were as follows: Pt = 1,416 µg/m
3
, Pd = 1,024 µg/m
3
, and Rh = 1,352 µg/m
3
. The blood samples of occupationally exposed personnel of Hyderabad city showed Pt as high as 6.65, Pd as high as 2.15, and Rh as high as 4.95 µg/l. The results showed an important aspect of bioaccumulation tendency of these metals with increase in age and years of occupational exposure.
Using temperature gradients measured in 10 holes at 6 sites, we generate the first high fidelity heat flow measurements from Integrated Ocean Drilling Program drill holes across the northern and ...central Lesser Antilles arc and back arc Grenada basin. The implied heat flow, after correcting for bathymetry and sedimentation effects, ranges from about 0.1 W/m2 on the crest of the arc, midway between the volcanic islands of Montserrat and Guadeloupe, to <0.07 W/m2 at distances >15 km from the crest in the back arc direction. Combined with previous measurements, we find that the magnitude and spatial pattern of heat flow are similar to those at continental arcs. The heat flow in the Grenada basin to the west of the active arc is 0.06 W/m2, a factor of 2 lower than that found in the previous and most recent study. There is no thermal evidence for significant shallow fluid advection at any of these sites. Present‐day volcanism is confined to the region with the highest heat flow.
Key Points
Heat flow in the Lesser Antilles is similar to other volcanic arcs
No evidence for subsurface fluid flow
Volcanism is confined to the region with high heat flow
The Neoarchean Bundelkhand greenstone sequences at Mauranipur and Babina areas within the Bundelkhand Gneissic Complex preserve a variety of magmatic rocks such as komatiitic basalts, basalts, felsic ...volcanic rocks and high-Mg andesites belonging to the Baragaon, Raspahari and Koti Formations. The intrusive and extrusive komatiitic basalts are characterized by low SiO2 (39–53 wt.%), high MgO (18–25 wt.%), moderately high Fe2O3 (7.1–11.6 wt.%), Al2O3 (4.5–12.0 wt.%), and TiO2 (0.4–1.23 wt.%) with super to subchondritic (Gd/Yb)N ratios indicating garnet control on the melts. The intrusive komatiitic suite of Ti-enriched and Al-depleted type possesses predominant negative Eu and positive Nb, Ti and Y anomalies. The chemical composition of basalts classifies them into three types with varying SiO2, TiO2, MgO, Fe2O3, Al2O3 and CaO. At similar SiO2 content of type I and III basalts, the type II basalts show slightly high Al2O3 and Fe2O3 contents. Significant negative anomalies of Nb, Zr, Hf and Ti, slightly enriched LREE with relatively flat HREE and low ∑REE contents are observed in type I and II basalts. Type III basalts show high Zr/Nb ratios (9.8–10.4), TiO2 (1.97–2.04 wt.%), but possess strikingly flat Zr, Hf, Y and Yb and are uncontaminated. Andesites from Agar and Koti have high SiO2 (55–64 wt.%), moderate TiO2 (0.4–0.7 wt.%), slightly low Al2O3 (7–11.9 wt.%), medium to high MgO (3–8 wt.%) and CaO contents (10–17 wt.%). Anomalously high Cr, Co and Ni contents are observed in the Koti rhyolites. Tholeiitic to calc alkaline affinity of mafic-felsic volcanic rocks and basalt–andesite–dacite–rhyolite differentiation indicate a mature arc and thickened crust during the advanced stage of the evolution of Neoarchean Bundelkhand greenstone belt in a convergent tectonic setting where the melts were derived from partial melting of thick basaltic crust metamorphosed to amphibolite-eclogite facies. The trace element systematics suggest the presence of arc-back arc association with varying magnitudes of crust-mantle interaction. La/Sm, La/Ta, Nb/Th, high MgO contents (>20 wt.%), CaO/Al2O3 and (Gd/Yb)N > 1 along with the positive Nb anomalies of the komatiite basalts reflect a mantle plume source for their origin contaminated by subduction-metasomatized mantle lithosphere. The overall geochemical signatures of the ultramafic-mafic and felsic volcanic rocks endorse the Neoarchean plume-arc accretion tectonics in the Bundelkhand greenstone belt.
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•East-west trending (Mauaranipur-Babina-Dhaura) Bundelkhand Greenstone Belt.•Geochemistry of komatiitic basalts-island arc tholeiitic BADR association.•Crustal growth through Neoarchean plume – back arc-arc accretion in Bundelkhand Craton.•Southward subduction polarity.
Power system state estimation is the important module in monitoring the power system network. The state estimator provides states of the power system by processing the measurements placed optimally ...across the power system network. However, temporary un-observability may occur due to unexpected loss of measurement devices or communication links. In the present paper, the reliability of the static state estimation has been tested under three different scenarios, viz. over-determined, critically determined, and under-determined systems. The state estimation problem has been solved using JADE-adaptive differential evolution algorithm utilizing both the conventional and the synchronized phasor measurements. From the test results it has been determined that the proposed technique determines the solution even when the power system is partially observable and also detects the un-observable buses present in the network. The results thus obtained using JADE have been compared with conventional weighted least square and improved self-adaptive particle swarm optimization-based SE techniques. On the bases of various performance indices, the results show the effectiveness, reliability, and accuracy of the proposed algorithm when compared to other state estimation techniques.
The granite batholiths of eastern Dharwar Craton, which are showing intrusive relationship with TTGs, exposed in the eastern part of Telangana state at University of Hyderabad, Gachibowli (9.30 km
2
...), are studied for their petrographic and geochemical characteristics compared with their counterparts in EDC and evaluated their petrogenesis. These are predominantly microcline and quartz with subordinate plagioclase, exhibiting intergranular and perthitic textures. Geochemically, they are strongly peraluminous to slightly metaluminous in nature with high Alumina Saturation Index (ASI) ranging from 0.86 to 1.11 indicating the role of plagioclase in their genesis. Their alkali-calcic to alkalic nature, narrow range of Modified Alkali-Lime Index (MALI; Na
2
O+K
2
O −CaO), and low Fe-number reflect their similarities with the I-type Cordilleran granites. Prominent negative Europium anomalies, high Sr, Rb, Rb/Sr and low Sr/Y ratios indicate moderate to low pressure partial melting of pre-existing TTG with residual plagioclase in the source. We suggest, the melting of older TTGs through crustal anataxis process formed these granites and the sanukitoid melts supplied the required heat for the melting of TTG to evolve into granites. The genesis of these granites supports reworking of older crust, crustal differentiation during syn-collisional stage and marks the stabilization of continental crust in the Dharwar Craton during the Neoarchean time.
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