Zebingyi 1 of 1 NKL

CONTENTS
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ABSTRACT i
LIST OF FIGURES ii
LIST OF THE TABLES iii
AKNOWLEDGEMENTS iv
Chapter- I INTRODUCTION
1.1 Location and size 1
1.2 Accessibility 2
1.3 Aims of the study 2
1.4 Materials and methods 2
1.5 Preparation of thin section 3
1.6 Previous works 6
Chapter- II STRATIGRAPHY
2.1 General Statement 8
2.2 Zebingyi Formation 11
2.2.1 Synonyms 11
2.2.2 Type Section and Thickness 13
2.2.3 Reference Section 13
2.2.4 Distribution 13
2.2.5 Lithology 15
2.2.6 Stratigraphic relationship 15
2.3 Khinzo Chaung Limestone Member 18
Chapter- III PETROGRAPHY
3.1.1 Megascopic description 24
3.1.2 Microscopic description 25
Chapter- IV DEPOSITIONAL ENVIRONMENT
4.2 Possible depositional environment of the Khinzo Chaung 29
Limestone Member
Chapter- V SUMMARY AND CONCULUSION 30
REFERENCES
ABSTRACT
The Zebingyi Formation (Early Devonian) is narrowly outcropped in the western part
of Pyin-Oo-Lwin Township, north of Mandalay- Pyin-Oo-Lwin car road. The purpose
of this paper is to summarize most aspects of the Devonian rocks exposed in the eastern
part of Myanmar in terms of lithology, stratigraphy, palaeontology and environment of
deposition. The sample was collected from the Khinzo Chaung, Anisakhan area;
northern part of Zebingyi village. The data used in this paper are obtained from
extensive and energetic field works of teaching staff and students of the Department of
Geology, Dagon University. During these years, the geology field parties have provided
the geological maps, reports, and a large collection of fossils and rock samples on which
this report is based. Correlation of the Devonian sequence is based on scattered
evidences from some invertebrate fossils. Petrographically, the sample is named as
ferruginous siltstone. The ferruginous siltstone is mainly made up of silt size fine-
grained, light grey and buff coloured in weathered surface and dark grey in fresh
surface. Not only petrographic properties but also other field data indicate that the
possible depositional environment is near shores of lakes or subtidal marine
environment. Lower Devonian (Pragian – Emsian) age and stratigraphically it is closely
correlated with the formations of same age from the neighbouring regions such as
Malaysia, Thailand, and China.
Keywords: Lower Devonian, Zebingyi Formation, stratigraphy, petrology, Khinzo
Chaung Limestone Member.
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LIST OF FIGURES
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Figure 1.1 Location map of the Zebingyi _ Anisakan area 1
Pyin Oo Lwin Township, Mandalay Division, Myanmar.
Figure 2.1 Geological map of the Zebingyi area, Pyin Oo Lwin district. 9
Figure 2.2 Log section of the Zebingyi Formation in the Zebingyi area. 14
Figure 2.3 Photographs showing Outcrops of the Zebingyi Formation. 16
Figure 2.4 Photograph showing the Siluo-Devonian Contact. 17
Figure 2.5 Photograph showing Phacoidal Limestone of the Silurian 17
Nyaungbaw Formation.
Figure 2.6 Kyinganaing Chaung Outcrop. 20
Figure 2.7 Lower part of the Zebingyi Formation 21
(Khinzo Chaung Limestone Member).
Figure 2.8 Contact of Khinzo Chaung Limestone and 21
Inni Chaung Limestone member.
Figure 2.9 Defining the contact between Khinzo Chaung Limestone 22
Member and In-ni Chaung Limestone Member.
Figure 2.10 Khinzo Chaung Limestone Member. 22
Figure 3.1 Lower most part of the Zebingyi Formation. 23
Figure 3.2 Sample of the ferruginous siltstone. 24
Figure 3.3 Photomicrograph of Ferruginous Siltstone under PPL and XN 26
subangular silt sized quartz and cleavage of secondary calcite vein.
Cleavage of Calcite veins.

silt sized quartz grains are disseminated in clay organic matter.
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LIST OF THE TABLES
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Table 2.1 Stratigraphic Succession of the study area. 8

Table 2.2 Distribution of the Devonian units of Myanmar. 10
Table 2.3 Stratigraphic classification of the Devonian units 11
of the Shan State and Pyin oo Lwin District.
Table 2.3 Devonian units of the Northern Shan State. 12
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
I would like to thank Professor Dr. Aung May Than, Head of Department of
Geology, Dagon University, for her guidance and valuable advice of this project.
I wish to express my sincere gratitude to part time Professor Dr. Aye Ko Aung,
Department of Geology, Dagon University for his kind permission to carry out this
project, Enthusiastic help, critical reading of the manuscript.
I wish to thank Professor Dr. Myo Myint Zaw who gave us his time to guide and
make comments about my project.
To Associate Professor Daw Than Thet Mar, for teaching mineralogy in thin
sections of the microscopic petrological study.
To Lecture Dr. U Aung Myo Zaw, for giving his significant suggestion and
supporting literature. I owe my sincere gratitude.
To Assistant Lecture U Min Han Nyein, for teaching about GIS knowledge in
this project.
I am also grateful to Demonstrators U Ye Zaw, U Min Thukha, Daw Zin Nwe

Khaing of Department of Geology, Dagon University, for guidence, encouragement
and kind help in this project.
I like to extend my thanks to U Min Than, Laboratory Staff of Department of

Geology, Dagon University, for making thin section to study in this project.
Finally, I wish to express my class mates of the Final years and Second years
Honours of Geology class, Dagon University.
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Keywords: Lower Devonian, Zebingyi Formation, stratigraphy, petrology, Khinzo

Chaung Limestone Member.

Figure 1.1 Location map of the Zebingyi _ Anisakan area 1

Pyin Oo Lwin Township, Mandalay Division, Myanmar.

Figure 2.3 Photographs showing Outcrops of the Zebingyi Formation. 16

Figure 2.4 Photograph showing the Siluo-Devonian Contact. 17

Figure 2.5 Photograph showing Phacoidal Limestone of the Silurian 17

Figure 2.6 Kyinganaing Chaung Outcrop. 20

Figure 2.7 Lower part of the Zebingyi Formation 21

(Khinzo Chaung Limestone Member).

Figure 2.8 Contact of Khinzo Chaung Limestone and 21

Inni Chaung Limestone member.

Figure 2.9 Defining the contact between Khinzo Chaung Limestone 22

Member and In-ni Chaung Limestone Member.

Figure 2.10 Khinzo Chaung Limestone Member. 22

Figure 3.1 Lower most part of the Zebingyi Formation. 23

Figure 3.2 Sample of the ferruginous siltstone. 24

Figure 3.3 Photomicrograph of Ferruginous Siltstone under PPL and XN 26

subangular silt sized quartz and cleavage of secondary calcite vein.

Figure 3.4 Photomicrograph of Ferruginous Siltstone under PPL and XN 27

Cleavage of Calcite veins.

silt sized quartz grains are disseminated in clay organic matter.

Table 2.1 Stratigraphic Succession of the study area. 8

I am also grateful to Demonstrators U Ye Zaw, U Min Thukha, Daw Zin Nwe

I like to extend my thanks to U Min Than, Laboratory Staff of Department of

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