Destruction and regrowth of lithospheric mantle beneath large igneous provinces

SN Stephenson, PW Ball, FD Richards - Science Advances, 2023 - science.org
Large igneous provinces (LIPs) are formed by enormous (ie, frequently> 106 km3) but short-
lived magmatic events that have profound effects upon global geodynamic, tectonic, and …

Diversity in the peninsular Indian lithosphere revealed from ambient noise and earthquake tomography

GK Saha, KS Prakasam, SS Rai - Physics of the Earth and Planetary …, 2020 - Elsevier
Significant diversity in the Indian lithosphere is seen in 3-D shear wave velocity images
inverted from the dispersion of group velocities measured from ambient noise and …

[HTML][HTML] Trace element and Sr-Nd-Hf-Pb isotope evidence for a multi-magma chamber system beneath the Deccan Volcanic Province, India

JJ Pakulla, MW Jansen, RA Duraiswami, P Gadpallu… - Chemical …, 2023 - Elsevier
With a size of over 500,000 km 2, the Deccan Volcanic Province (DVP) covers a large area
of the Indian subcontinent. Stratigraphically continuous lava flows piled up to 3000 m record …

Early arrival of the Réunion plume at the base of the Himalaya?

Y Wang, L Zeng, LE Gao, L Zhao, L Yan - Earth and Planetary Science …, 2024 - Elsevier
The Réunion mantle plume is known to have produced the Deccan Traps in west-central
India, but its early evolution before the Deccan eruption remains poorly constrained. In this …

Petrogenesis of end-Cretaceous/Early Eocene lamprophyres from the Deccan Large Igneous Province: Constraints on plume-lithosphere interaction and the post …

R Pandey, A Pandey, NVC Rao, B Belyatsky… - Lithos, 2019 - Elsevier
We present petrology, geochemistry and radiogenic isotope (Sr and Nd) data of thirteen post-
Deccan lamprophyre dykes in the Narmada rift zone from the Chhotaudepur alkaline …

Large variations in the lithospheric thickness of northwestern India: Imprints of collisional and thermal reworking

N Kumar, O Prakash, VM Tiwari, AP Singh - Physics of the Earth and …, 2024 - Elsevier
The fold belts, which border the cratons, are the building blocks for understanding the origin
and modification of older continents. The Aravalli-Delhi Fold Belt (ADFB) in northwestern …

The magmatic architecture of continental flood basalts I: Observations from the Deccan Traps

T Mittal, MA Richards, IM Fendley - Journal of Geophysical …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Flood basalts are some of the largest magmatic events in Earth history, with intrusion and
eruption of millions of km3 of basaltic magma over a short time period (∼ 1–5 Ma). A typical …

Cryptic magma chamber in the Deccan Traps imaged using receiver functions and surface wave dispersion

G Saha, V Kumar, DK Chaubey… - Geophysical Research …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
An anomalous crust and lithospheric mantle in the Deccan Volcanic Province are imaged
below a 160 km long W‐E profile through the joint inversion of receiver functions and …

Seismic evidence of a plume conduit in a metasomatized lithosphere beneath the Barmer rift in northwestern India

DS Saju, G Mohan - Tectonophysics, 2024 - Elsevier
Teleseismic tomography was done to investigate the lithosphere beneath northwestern India
which was affected by several magmatic episodes since Neoproterozoic times. Broadband …

New evidence for a thin crust and magmatic underplating beneath the Cambay rift basin, Western India through modelling of EIGEN-6C4 gravity data

AK Chouhan, P Choudhury, SK Pal - Journal of Earth System Science, 2020 - Springer
The Cambay rift basin (CRB) is an intracratonic rift in the western part of India. The basin
assumes great importance in petroleum exploration owing to the presence of thick …