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Proterozoic Orogens of India
A Critical Window to Gondwana
Author: Chetty T.R.K.
Language: EnglishSubject for Proterozoic Orogens of India:
Keywords
Accretionary; Accretionary systems; Alkaline magmatism; Aravalli Delhi orogenic belt; Basement gneisses; Central Indian Tectonic Zone; Collisional; Collisional orogen; Constriction; East Gondwana; Flower structure; Geotransect; Gondwana correlations; Gondwana orogenic system; Gondwana orogens; Granulites; Migmatites; Mozambique ocean; Mélange structures; Obduction; Ophiolites; Orogen; Orogens; Plate tectonics; Proterozoic; Proterozoic orogens of India; Shear zones; Subduction; Subduction polarity; Supercontinents; Suture zone; Suture zones; Terranes; Thrust-nappe structure; Transpression; Wilson cycle
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1. Orogens2. The Southern Granulite Terrane3. The Eastern Ghats Mobile Belt4. The Central Indian Tectonic Zone5. The Aravalli Fold Mountain Belt6. Gondwana correlations
- Includes a much needed state-of-the-art tectonic summary of the voluminous data that has emerged from the Protrozoic orogens of India in the last 2-3 decades
- Authored by a well-established expert with more than 30 years of experience in the field based, multi-scale structural geological studies of the ancient orogens of India
- Covers up-to-date reviews and models of Proterozoic orogens developed in the Indian shield over the past 2.5 billion years of Earth history