Peninsular India in Gondwana: The tectonothermal evolution of the Southern Granulite Terrain and its Gondwanan counterparts

AS Collins, C Clark, D Plavsa - Gondwana Research, 2014‏ - Elsevier
Peninsular India forms a keystone in Gondwana, linking the East African and Malagasy
orogens with Ediacaran–Cambrian orogenic belts in Sri Lanka and the Lützow Holm Bay …

Madagascar and the amalgamation of Central Gondwana

AS Collins - Gondwana Research, 2006‏ - Elsevier
Madagascar lay in an interesting position in Gondwana, straddling one of the largest
orogens that formed as the supercontinent amalgamated. The Malagasy basement …

Subaerial weathering drove stabilization of continents

JR Reimink, AJ Smye - Nature, 2024‏ - nature.com
Earth's silica-rich continental crust is unique among the terrestrial planets and is critical for
planetary habitability. Cratons represent the most imperishable continental fragments and …

The Dharwar craton, southern India, interpreted as the result of Late Archaean oblique convergence

B Chadwick, VN Vasudev, GV Hegde - Precambrian Research, 2000‏ - Elsevier
The Dharwar craton comprises two distinct parts separated by a steep N–S sinistral shear
zone. In the western part a pre-2900Ma complex of orthogneisses, granodiorites and narrow …

[ספר][B] Continents and supercontinents

JJW Rogers, M Santosh - 2004‏ - books.google.com
To this day, there is a great amount of controversy about where, when and how the so-called
supercontinents--Pangea, Godwana, Rodinia, and Columbia--were made and broken …

Anatomy of a Cambrian suture in Gondwana: Pacific-type orogeny in southern India?

M Santosh, S Maruyama, K Sato - Gondwana research, 2009‏ - Elsevier
Southern India occupies a central position in the Late Neoproterozoic–Cambrian Gondwana
supercontinent assembly. The Proterozoic mosaic of southern India comprises a collage of …

The lower crust of the Dharwar Craton, Southern India: Patchwork of Archean granulitic domains

JJ Peucat, M Jayananda, D Chardon, R Capdevila… - Precambrian …, 2013‏ - Elsevier
U–Pb geochronological, major and trace element and isotope geochemical data identify
crustal domains of contrasted petrological origins and histories in the lower crust of the …

Neoarchean greenstone volcanism and continental growth, Dharwar craton, southern India: Constraints from SIMS U–Pb zircon geochronology and Nd isotopes

M Jayananda, JJ Peucat, D Chardon, BK Rao… - Precambrian …, 2013‏ - Elsevier
We present SIMS U–Pb zircon ages and Nd isotope data for the felsic volcanic rocks from
seven Neoarchean greenstone belts of the Eastern Dharwar craton (EDC) and from the …

An exotic Mesoarchean microcontinent: the Coorg block, southern India

M Santosh, QY Yang, E Shaji, T Tsunogae… - Gondwana …, 2015‏ - Elsevier
Abstract Sandwiched between the Dharwar Craton in the north and the Neoarchean–
Proterozoic crustal blocks to the south, the Coorg Block in southern India is composed …

Age and tectonic evolution of Neoproterozoic ductile shear zones in the Southern Granulite Terrain of India, with implications for Gondwana studies

JG Ghosh, MJ de Wit, RE Zartman - Tectonics, 2004‏ - Wiley Online Library
The high‐grade rocks of the Southern Granulite Terrain (SGT) of Peninsular India are
bounded to the north by the Archean Dharwar Craton. Another high‐grade terrane, the …