MULTIMODE GENERATION OF CARBONATE TABULAR INTRACLAST DEPOSITS - UNNAMED PROTEROZOIC FORMATION, MAHARASHTRA

Breccia and pebbly massflow products are present in abundance in basin slope deposits of an unnamed marine Proterozoic formation in Maharash tra. Seven distinctive genetic modes have been identified and attribut ed to slump, slide, spring sapping and evaporite dissolution. The clas ts are tabular in form and intraclastic in origin. The observations su ggest caution against the prevailing tendency to equate occurrence of tabular intraclasts with shallow depositional regime. In order to asce rtain their sedimentological significance, a clear understanding of th eir genetic processes is thus warranted.