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Open Journal of Geology, 2012, 2, 1-13 /10.4236/ojg.2012.21001 Published Online January 2012 (http://www.SciRP.org/journal/ojg) Cyclic Sedimentation of the Barakar Formation, Singrauli Coalfield, India: Statistical Assessment from Borehole Logs 1 2 1 3 Rabindra Nath Hota , Pallavi Chatterjee Adhikari , Anketika Mohanty , Wataru Maejima 1Department of Geology, Utkal University, Bhubaneswar, India 2Department of Civil Engineering, BIT, Mesra, Ranchi, India 3Department of Geosciences, Osaka City University, Osaka, Japan Email: rnhota@ Received August 24, 2011; revised October 9, 2011; accepted December 4, 2011 ABSTRACT The succession of lithofacies of a part of the Barakar Formation of the Singrauli coalfield has been studied by statistical techniques. The lithologies have been grouped under five facies states viz. coarse-, medium-, and fine-grained sand- stones, shale and coal for statistical analyses. Markov chain analysis indicates the arrangement of Barakar lithofacies in the form of fining-upward cycles. A complete cycle consists of conglomerate or coarse-grained sandstone at the base sequentially succeeded by medium- and fine-grained sandstones, shales and coal seam at the top. The entropy analysis puts the Barakar cycles in A-4 type of cyclicity, which consists of different proportions of lower-, side- and upper- truncated cycles of lithologic states. Regression analysis indicates a sympathetic relationship between total thickness of strata (net subsidence) and number of coal cycles and an antipathic relationship between average thickness and number of coal cycles. The cyclic se