KONDOMALI KIMBERLITIC DIATREME, RAIPUR DISTRICT, MADHYA-PRADESH

Discovery of Bahradih, Payalikhand and Jangra kimberlitic diatremes in the Raipur district of Madhya Pradesh was reported in the News Bullet in of the Geological Survey of India, Central Region1 (GSI News, March 1993). Another kimberlitic diatreme is being reported by the authors south of Kodapali village (location: Kodomali -20-degrees-11'35'' : 82 -degrees-15'00'', Toposheet No. 64 L/4), in the Mainpur Tahsil of Raip ur district. This diatreme is almost centrally placed in the NW-SE tre nding lineament between Bahradih and Payalikhand and occupies a modera tely vegetated topographic depression within a rolling granitic pedipl ained country. The only surface manifestation of the diatreme is in th e form of concentration of specific heavy minerals of kimberlitic affi nity in the soil profile.