Age

Group

Formation

Lithology

Recent

Alluvial soil cover with terraces

Hard grey sandstone, siltstone, shale

Miocene

Tipam

Tipam sandstone

Coarse to gritty hard sandstones with salt and pepper appearance.

Unconformity

Sandstone, carbonaceous shale and coal seams with shale and sandy shale.

Oligocene

Barail

Tikak Parbat

Shale, carbonaceous shale, sandy shale, sandstone and thick coal seam.

Thrust contact (Naga Thrust)