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Delineate the coalfields of India and mention their distinctive features.

  • UPSC 2013
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Indian coal is overwhelmingly drift-origin Gondwana coal, laid down in fault-bounded intracratonic troughs opened along the Damodar, Son, Mahanadi, Godavari and Wardha lineaments during Permo-Carboniferous rifting of the peninsular shield.

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  • Structural basis of the distribution
  • Delineation of the coalfields
  • 1. Damodar Valley belt — Jharkhand and West Bengal
  • 2. Son-Mahanadi belt — Chhattisgarh, Madhya Pradesh, Odisha
  • 3. Godavari-Wardha belt — Telangana and Maharashtra
  • 4. Tertiary and lignite fields
  • …and 1 more sections, with a conclusion

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