Talchir Formation(Permo-Carboniferous) of the Gondwana Supergroup records the Late Paleozoic glaciation in Peninsular India.Talchir sedimentary succession of the Raniganj Basin,Damodar Valley Coalfields,Peninsular India,bears ten facies types grouped under three facies associations,viz.,the proglacial conglomerate-sandstone facies association(CS),the foreshore-shoreface conglomerate-sandstone-mudstone facies association(CSM) and the prodelta-shelf sandstone-mudstone facies association(SM).Overall facies architecture reflects initial ice-covered terrestrial subglacial sedimentation,which was subsequently reworked and emplaced subaqueously in front of the ice-grounding line,and finally overlapped by storm-laid prodelta-shelf sediments.Repeated glacial advance-retreats with shifts in the position of the ice-grounding line during phases of climatic amelioration led to multiple deglaciation-related fining-up cycles.Decoupled ice sheet and floating icebergs contributed icerafted debris(IRD) to these sediments.Gradual retreat of the ice sheet,however,restricted the supply of IRD towards top of the succession.Overlap of wave-agitated shoreface-shelf sediments on the glaciogenic sediments indicates widespread marine transgression caused by glacier melting during ice-house to green-house climatic transition,and crustal downsagging related to glacioisostasy.Subsequently,complete disappearance of the ice sheet caused basinal exhumation along with crustal uplift due to isostatic rebound,leading to multiple horst-graben bounded basinal systems,which received post-Talchir coal-bearing Gondwana sediments.