JOURNAL PAPER

Yeasmin, R., Abdullah, R., Hossain, M.S., Ao, S., Khan, M.S.H., Sayem, A.S.M., Xiao, W., Zhang, P., Zoarder, A. and Tithi, T.J., 2024. Petrography, geochemistry and detrital zircon U–Pb dating of the Pliocene‐Pleistocene Dupi Tila Formation from the Lalmai Anticline, Bengal Basin: Regional tectonic implications. Geological Journal., 2024.
Sayem, ASM, Rokonuzzaman M, Shahriar · MS, Abdullah, R, Bari, Z, Hossen MS, 2023. Major and trace element geochemistry of the Atrai River sediments from the Bengal Basin (Bangladesh): implication for provenance, chemical weathering, and tectonic setting in the southeastern Himalaya, Arabian Journal of Geosciences, 16., 2023.
Khanam F., Rahman M.J.J., Abdullah, R. (2022) Clay minerals in interbedded sandstones and shales of the Miocene Surma Group, Sylhet Trough, Bengal Basin (northeastern Indian Plate): implications for future hydrocarbon exploration. Clay and Clay Minerals. DOI: 10.1007/s42860-022-00189-2.,
Abdullah R., Aurthy M.R., Khanam F., Hossain M.M., Sayem A., (2022) Structural development and tectonostratigraphic evolution of the Sylhet Trough (northeastern Bengal Basin) in the context of Cenozoic Himalayan Orogeny: insights from geophysical data interpretation. Marine and Petroleum Geology. 138:105544. DOI: 10.1016/j.marpetgeo.2022.105544.,
Khanam F., Rahman M.J.J., Abdullah, R. (2022) Clay minerals in interbedded sandstones and shales of the Miocene Surma Group, Sylhet Trough, Bengal Basin (northeastern Indian Plate): implications for future hydrocarbon exploration. Clay and Clay Minerals. DOI: 10.1007/s42860-022-00189-2,
Sayem A.S.M., Rahman M.J.J., Abdullah R., Azim K.R., (2022) Diagenetic history of the Miocene Surma Group sandstones from the Eastern Fold Belt of the Bengal Basin. Journal of Asian Earth Sciences: X, p.100098. DOI: 10.1016/j.jaesx.2022.100098,
Abdullah R., Hossain M.S., Aktar M.S., Hossain M.M., Khanam F. (2021) Structural initiation along the frontal fold thrust system in the western Indi-Burman Range: implications for tectonostratigraphic evolution of the Hatia Trough (Bengal Basin). Interpretation. 9(3). DOI: 10.1190/int-2020-0227.1.,

Hossain S., Khan S.H., Abdullah R., Mukherjee S. (2021) Late Cenozoic transpression at the plate boundary: Kinematics of the eastern segment of the Dauki Fault Zone (Bangladesh) and tectonic evolution of the petroliferous NE Bengal Basin. Marine and Petroleum Geology. 131. 105-133. DOI: 10.1016/j.marpetgeo.2021.105133,

Abdullah R., Sayem A.S.M., Yeasmin R., Rahman M.M., Bari Z., Khanam F. (2021). Plio-Pleistocene to Recent Tectonostratigraphic evolution of the Lalmai anticline in the western Indo-Burman Range (Bangladesh): insights from lithofacies analysis and structural synthesis. Arabian Journal of Geosciences. 14. DOI: 10.1007/s12517-021-06741-z.,
Khanam F., Rahman M.J.J., Alam M.M. Abdullah R., (2021). Sedimentology and basin-fill history of the Cenozoic succession of the Sylhet Trough, Bengal Basin, Bangladesh. International Journal of Earth Sciences. 110. 193-212. DOI: 10.1007/s00531-020-01946-1,
Rahman, M.J.J., Xiao, W., Hossain, M.S., Yeasmin, R., Sayem, A.S.M., Ao, S., Yang, L., Abdullah, R., Dina, N.T. (2020) Geochemistry and detrital zircon U-Pb dating of Pliocene-Pleistocene sandstones of the Chittagong Tripura Fold Belt (Bangladesh): Implications for provenance. Gondwana Research. DOI: 10.1016/j.gr.2019.07.018,
Abdullah, R., , Shaanan, U. Lynn, K. and Rosenbaum, G. (2020) Provenance and deformation history of the eastern Thomson Orogen and implications for the Paleozoic evolution of the Tasmanides (eastern Australia). Australian Journal of Earth Sciences. DOI: 10.1080/08120099.2019.1648316,
Khanam F., Rahman M.J.J., Abdullah R., Xiao W., Alam M.M. (2020). Petrography and detrital zircon U-Pb dating of the Neogene sandstones in the Sylhet Trough, Bengal Basin (Bangladesh): Implications for Provenance. Himalayan Geology. 41(2).,

Khanam F., Rahman M.J.J., Abdullah R., Alam M.M. (2020) Electro-facies analysis of the Late Cenozoic sediments of the Sylhet Trough, Bengal Basin (Bangladesh): Implications for interpretation of depositional sequences. Bangladesh Geoscience Journal, 26, 1-13.,
Eva S.I., Abdullah R., Islam, A. (2020) Seismo-stratigraphic analysis of the Begumganj structure in the Hatia Trough, Bengal Basin: implications for tectonostratigraphic evolution and trapping mechanisms. Bangladesh Geoscience Journal, 26, 41-55.,
Abdullah, R., Nugroho, R., Rosenbaum, G., Doublier, M.P., Shaanan, U. and Zwingmann, H. 2019, Evidence for deformation in the Cambrian‐Ordovician Warburton Basin and implications for the evolution of the Tasmanides (eastern Australia). Tectonics.,
Abdullah, R. and Rosenbaum, G. 2018, Devonian Crustal Stretching in the Northern Tasmanides (Australia) and Implications for Oroclinal Bending. Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth,
Abeden, M.J., Rahman, M.J.J., Sayem, A.S.M. and Abdullah, R. 2018. Heavy mineral distribution in sand deposits from lower reaches of the Jamuna River, Bangladesh. Bangladesh Geoscience Journal. 24. 1-16.,
Abdullah, R. and Rosenbaum, G. 2017, Orogen-perpendicular structures in the central Tasmanides and implications for the Paleozoic tectonic evolution of eastern Australia, Tectonophysics, 694, 444-463.,
Khanam, F. Rahman, M.J.J. Alam, M.M. and Abdullah, R. 2017; Facies characterization of the Surma Group (Miocene) sediments from Jalalabad Gas Field, Sylhet Trough, Bangladesh: study from cores and wireline logs; Jour. of the Geol. Society of India, 89 (2),
Tapu, A., Ameen, S.M.M. and Abdullah, R., 2017. Characterization of the basemetal sulphides and gold in the basement of Bangladesh: A case study from Barapaharpur, Dinajpur, Bangladesh Geoscience Journal, 23, 25-35.,
Tapu, A., Ameen, S.M.M., Abdullah, R., Zaman, M.N., Hossain, S. and Das, S.C. 2016. Geochemical evaluation of the diorite basement in Barapaharpur, Rangpur, northwest Bangladesh, Bangladesh Geoscience Journal, 22, 17-37.,
Hossain, A., Hossain, D. and Abdullah, R., 2015, Structural and stratigraphic interpretation of geophysical data of Fenchuganj Gas Field in the Surma Basin, Bangladesh; Journal of the Geological Society of India, 86 (2), 148-154.,
Abdullah, R., Yeasmin, R., Ameen, S.M.M., Khanam, F., and Bari, Z. 2015; 2D Structural modelling and hydrocarbon potentiality of the Sitakund structure, Chittagong Tripura Fold Belt (CTFB), Bengal Basin, Bangladesh; Journal of the Geological Society of In,
Abdullah, R., Hossain, D., Alam, M. R., 2013; Delineation using geophysical data of the hydrocarbon bearing zone in the Begumganj Structure, Hatia Trough, Southern Bengal Basin, Bangladesh; Journal of the Geological Society of India, 82 (9), 271-276.,
Rahman, M.J.J., McCann, T., Abdullah, R. and Yeasmin, R., 2011, Sandstone diagenesis of the Neogene Surma Group from the Shahbazpur Gas Field, Southern Bengal Basin, Bangladesh, Austrian Journal of Earth Sciences; 104 (1), 114-126.,
Kabir, A.S.M.S., Hossain, D. and Abdullah, R., 2011; 2-D Electrical imaging in some geotechnical investigation of Madhupur Clays, Bangladesh; Journal of the Geological Society of India, 77 (1), 73-81.,
Khanam F., Alam MM. Abdullah R. (2010). Lithofacies analysis of the exposed sediments of the lower Bhuban Formation and Upper Renji Formation in the Naya Gang Section, Jaintiapur, Sylhet Trough, Bengal Basin, Bangladesh. Jahangirnagar University Journal of Sciences, 33 (1), 35-49.,
Bari Z., Rajib M., Abdullah R. (2010) Size frequency distribution of the beach sands of Kuakata in southern Bangladesh, The Journal of NOAMI, 27 (2), 45-57.,

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CONFERENCE PAPER

Abdullah R. and Rosenbaum G. (2020) Evolution of late Silurian to Devonian basins in the Tasmanides (eastern Australia) and implications for plate boundary migration along the Gondwanan margin. International Geological Congress (IGC2020), Delhi, India.,

 

 

Abdullah R., Aurthy M.R, Aktar M.S., Hossain M.M., Khanam F., Hossain M.S., Late Cenozoic deformation in the western margin of the Indo-Burmese Wedge: implications for the tectonostratigraphic evolution of the Eastern Fold Belt of the Bengal Basin (Bangladesh). International Geological Congress (IGC2020), Delhi, India.,

 

 

Khanam F., Rahman M.J.J.R., Abdullah R., Xiao W., Alam M. Detrital Zircon Geochronology (U-Pb Dating) of the Neogene sediments in the Sylhet Trough (Bangladesh): Implications for Provenance Inference and Tectonostratigraphic Evolution of the Bengal Basin. International Geological Congress (IGC2020), Delhi, India.,

 

 

Abdullah R. Khanam F., Yeasmin R. Hossain M.S. Fault Seal Analysis: A case study from the Sitakund anticline, Eastern Fold Belt, Bengal Basin, ICESST 2020, Dhaka, Bangladesh.,

 

 

Abdullah R. and Rosenbaum G. (2018) Devonian crustal stretching in the northern Tasmanides (Australia): implications for the origin of the orogenic curvature in the Delamerian-Thomson belt. Australian Geoscience Council Convention, Adelaide, Australia.,

 

 

Abdullah R., Nugroho R., Rosenbaum G., Doublier M., Shaanan U., Zwingmann H. (2018) Evidence for deformation in the Cambrian-Ordovician Warburton Basin and implications for the Paleozoic tectonic evolution of the Tasmanides (eastern Australia). Australian Geoscience Council Convention, Adelaide, Australia.,

 

 

Abdullah R., Rosenbaum G. (2017) Evidence for Devonian crustal stretching in northeastern Australia and implications for the origin of the Tasmanides; SGTSG conference, Denmark, Western Australia, Australia.,

 

 

Abdullah R., Rosenbaum, G. (2016) Crustal architecture and tectonic evolution of the northwestern Thomson Orogen, Australian Earth Science Convention, Adelaide, Australia.,

 

 

Rosenbaum G., Shaanan U., Hoy D., Abdullah, R. (2016) Geodynamics of the Tasmanides: accretion vs. bending, Australian Earth Science Convention, Adelaide, Australia.,

 

 

Rosenbaum G., Shaanan U., Hoy D., Abdullah R. (2015) Origin of oroclines in Paleozoic Australia: the role of inherited plate boundary irregularities and trench retreat. American Geophysical Union, Fall Meeting, San Francisco, USA.,

 

 

Abdullah R., Rosenbaum G., Babaahmadi A., Dunstan S. (2015) Curvilinear east-west structures at the southern Thomson Orogen and their geodynamic significance, SGTSG conference, Coloundra, Sunshine Coast, Queensland, Australia.,

 

 

Tapu A., Ameen A.S.M., Abdullah R., Zaman M.N., Das S.C., Hossain., S. (2015) Geochemistry and petrogenesis of the basement rocks from Barapaharpur, Rangpur: Implications for crustal evolution of the shallow basement in the north-west Bangladesh. American Geophysical Union, Joint Assembly, Montreal, QB, Canada.,

 

 

Tapu A., Ameen A.S.M., Abdullah, R. (2014) Base metals within the basement rocks in Barapaharpur, northwest Bangladesh: Implications for mineralization in the shallow basement of Bangladesh. Geological Society of America, Abstracts, 46 (6), 114.,

 

 

Abdullah R. (2012) Structural framework and geodynamic evolution of the NW Australian Passive Margin. Poster, PETEX conference, London, United Kingdom.,

 

 

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BOOK

Hossain M.S., Khan M.S.H., Abdullah R., Chowdhury K.R. (2020) Tectonic Development of the Bengal Basin in Relation to Fold-thrust Belt to the East and North. In: Biswal, T.K., Ray, S.K., and Grasemann, B. (eds.) Structural Geology of Mobile Belts of Indian Subcontinent. IGC 2020 commemoration volume, Springer Nature Switzerland AG. pp 91-109.,

 

Tectonic development of the Bengal Basin is related to the complex interplay among the Himalaya orogen to the north, the Indo-Burma orogen to the east, and Stable Indian Craton to the west. To the north, convergence tectonic loading presumed to transfer from the deformation front, along the Oldham and Dauki faults to the south and shaped not only the Shillong Plateau and Assam Basin, but also the northern part of the Bengal Basin. To the east, oblique subduction related transpressional tectonics splits along different morphotectonic units separated by large-scale transpressive dextral strike-slip faults and produces fold thrust belt, thrust front, and emerging fold belt, whose western limit is marked by the deformation front to the east. The Stable Shelf part of the basin to the west is characterized by the presence of passive margin rift faults with numerous graben and half-graben structures, which show sign of tectonic reactivation in response to the ongoing N-S collision and E-W subduction of the Indian Plate.

Hossain, M.S., Khan, M.H.S, Chowdhury, K. and Abdullah, R. (2019) Synthesis of the Tectonic and Structural Elements of the Bengal Basin and Its Surroundings In: Mukherjee, S. (eds.) Tectonics & Structural Geology: Indian Context. Springer, Germany. pp 135-218.,

The Bengal Basin is a collisional foreland basin in South Asia located at the juncture of the Eurasian, Indian and Burmese Plates occupying Bangladesh and parts of the Indian States of West Bengal, Tripura and Assam. Based on basement configuration, sedimentation pattern and geodynamic development/deformation, three geotectonic provinces, e.g. (i) Stable Shelf or Geotectonic Province 1, (ii) Central Foredeep Basin or Geotectonic Province 2 and (iii) Folded Flank (Chittagong–Tripura Fold Belt: CTFB) or Geotectonic Province 3 have been recognised. The chapter briefly synthesises the tectonic history emphasizing the structural features and related important stratigraphic units only. During the Precambrian, only the Geotectonic Province 1 (Stable Shelf of the Bengal Basin) was a part of the Indian Plate, which was an integral part of the Gondwana Supercontinent. Throughout the Paleozoic and much of the Mesozoic, the Indian Plate was occupying a central location in the Gondwana Supercontinent. During the Late Paleozoic–Mid Mesozoic, the basin (Geotectonic Province 1) had experienced extensional tectonics and was developed as an intra-cratonic rift basin. Afterwards, the Kerguelen igneous activity had resulted the spreading of the SE Indian Ocean and thus Geotectonic Province 1 experienced widespread volcanism known as the Rajmahal Trap. During this time, the Geotectonic Province 2 influenced by marine environment and also affected by this volcanic activity. The floor/base of the Geotectonic Province 2 has been developed as a transitional zone between continent-ocean crust during the initial break-up of the Gondwana and the formation of the Indian Plate. Subsequently, the Geotectonic Province 2 continuously subsided and received a massive volume of sediments during the Late Mesozoic through the Tertiary to Recent. The Indian Plate collided with a Neotethyan intra-oceanic arc during the Late Cretaceous and the Paleocene (between 120–57 Ma). The continental part of the Indian Plate then collided with the Tibetan part of the Eurasian Plate around the Eocene-Oligocene boundary (~35 Ma). The collision resulted the subduction of the northern Indian Plate beneath the southern Tibet, which caused the first uplift of the Himalayan region. Further movement of the Indian Plate continued in the north-easterly direction, resulted collision of the Indian Plate with the Burmese Plate and gave rise to the initial uplift in the Indo-Burman Ranges (IBR) region during the Late Oligocene and the Early Miocene. As compression/uplift continued in both the Himalayan and the IBR fronts, the mountain ranges welded through a syntexial bend. The Geotectonic Province 2 or the central Foredeep Basin was separated from the Assam Basin at ~23 Ma as a ‘remnant ocean basin’. The Geotectonic Province 2 and 3 received huge sediment during the Miocene to the Recent age through the Ganges, the Brahmaputra, the Meghna Rivers and their paleochannels due to the regional uplift in the Himalaya and IBR. These massive sediment loads were accommodated by the Geotectonic Province 1 and 2 through lithospheric flexure, subsidence and isostatic adjustment. Whereas, the sediments were accommodated in the Geotectonic Province 3 through upliftment, crustal shortening and fold thrust belt propagation.

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