Phanerozoic magmatism in the Proterozoic Cuddapah Basin and its connection with the Pangean supercontinent

Magmatic pulses in intraplate sedimentary basins are windows to understand the tectonomagmatic evolution and paleaoposition of the Basin. The present study reports the U-Pb zircon ages of mafic flows from the Cuddapah Basin and link these magmatic events with the Pangean evolution during late Carboniferous-Triassic/Phanerozoic timeframe. Zircon U-Pb geochronology for the basaltic lava flows from Vempalle Formation, Cuddapah Basin suggests two distinct Phanerozoic magmatic events coinciding with the amalgamation and dispersal stages of Pangea at 300 Ma (Late Carboniferous) and 227 Ma (Triassic). Further, these flows are characterized by analogous geochemical and geochronological signatures with Phanerozoic counterparts from Siberian, Panjal Traps, Emeishan and Tarim LIPs possibly suggesting their coeval and cogenetic nature. During the Phanerozoic Eon, the Indian subcontinent including the Cuddapah Basin was juxtaposed with the Pangean LIPs which led to the emplacement of these pulses of magmatism in the Basin coinciding with the assemblage of Pangea and its subsequent breakup between 400 Ma and 200 Ma.