Thinning and destruction of the cratonic lithosphere: A global perspective

FY Wu, YG Xu, RX Zhu, GW Zhang - Science China Earth Sciences, 2014 - Springer
It has been proposed that the North China Craton (NCC) was thinned up to a thickness of>
100 km during the Phanerozoic, and underwent an associated craton destruction. Evidently …

A review of crust and upper mantle structure beneath the Indian subcontinent

A Singh, C Singh, BLN Kennett - Tectonophysics, 2015 - Elsevier
This review presents an account of the variations in crustal and upper mantle structure
beneath the Indian subcontinent and its environs, with emphasis on passive seismic results …

Mantle dynamics, isostasy, and the support of high terrain

P Molnar, PC England, CH Jones - Journal of Geophysical …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Dynamic topography is commonly understood to be deflection of the Earth's surface that
results from convection of the mantle. Because different authors use the words “dynamic …

Imaging the lithospheric structure beneath the Indian continent

S Maurya, JP Montagner, MR Kumar… - Journal of …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
We present a high‐resolution 3‐D lithospheric model of the Indian plate region down to 300
km depth, obtained by inverting a new massive database of surface wave observations …

Lithospheric architecture and geodynamics of the Archean Dharwar craton and surrounding terranes: New insights from satellite gravity investigation

A Vasanthi, M Santosh - Gondwana Research, 2021 - Elsevier
The construction and destruction of continents, cratons and supercontinents on the globe
involved multiple events of plume, rifting, subduction-accretion, and collision through the …

Inversion of receiver functions without deconvolution—application to the Indian craton

T Bodin, H Yuan, B Romanowicz - Geophysical Journal …, 2014 - academic.oup.com
Receiver functions are a powerful tool to isolate and interpret receiver-side structure effects
in teleseismic seismic records. They are easily constructed by deconvolving one component …

Evolution of Archaean crust in the Dharwar craton: the Nd isotope record

S Dey - Precambrian Research, 2013 - Elsevier
A synthesis of the available Nd isotope data from the Dharwar craton puts important
constrains on antiquity of crust, extent of basement terranes, and events marking juvenile …

Deep crustal structure of the Indian shield from joint inversion of P wave receiver functions and Rayleigh wave group velocities: Implications for Precambrian crustal …

J Julia, S Jagadeesh, SS Rai… - Journal of Geophysical …, 2009 - Wiley Online Library
The S wave velocity structure of the crust and uppermost mantle of the Indian shield has
been investigated by jointly inverting P wave receiver functions and Rayleigh wave group …

Crust and mantle beneath western Himalaya, Ladakh and western Tibet from integrated seismic data

S Oreshin, S Kiselev, L Vinnik, KS Prakasam… - Earth and Planetary …, 2008 - Elsevier
To understand deep structure of the western Himalaya, Ladakh and western Tibet, we
conduct an integrated analysis of teleseismic body wave recordings from the linear array of …

A translithospheric suture in the vanished 1-Ga lithospheric root of South India: evidence from contrasting lithosphere sections in the Dharwar Craton

WL Griffin, AF Kobussen, E Babu, SY O'Reilly, R Norris… - Lithos, 2009 - Elsevier
Garnet xenocrysts and eclogite xenoliths from 15 kimberlites (1.0–1.1 Ga in age) have been
used to map the composition and structure of the lithospheric mantle along an 80-km …