Age

Unit

Lithology

Depositional Environment

Thickness (m)

Plio-Pleistocene

Unit-3 (Equivalent to Dupitila Formation)

Yellowish brown, very loosely compacted, medium to coarse grained, Ferruginous sandstone with minor shale

Fluvial environment

1000+

Pliocene

Unit-2 (Equivalent to Tipam Formation)

Yellowish brown, moderately compacted, medium to fine grained sandstone with interbedded shale

Flavio to Deltaic environment

300

Miocene

Unit-1 (Equivalent to Surma group)

Alternation of sandstone and shale, yellowish brown, moderately compacted, matured, medium to fine grained sandstone and bluish gray laminated shale.

Shallow marine to

Deltaic environment

1000+