The Southern Granulite Terrane, India: The saga of over 2 billion years of Earth's history

M Talukdar, T Sarkar, P Sengupta… - Earth-Science …, 2022 - Elsevier
Lying to the south of the Dharwar Craton, the expansive granulite massif, known as the
Granulite Terrane of South India, preserves protracted history of the earth from ca. 3400–500 …

Volcano-sedimentary and metallogenic records of the Dharwar greenstone terranes, India: Window to Archean plate tectonics, continent growth, and mineral …

C Manikyamba, S Ganguly, M Santosh… - Gondwana …, 2017 - Elsevier
Abstract The Dharwar Craton in southern peninsular India incorporates well developed
Meso-Neoarchean greenstone terranes where komatiite-tholeiite and picrite-boninite-Nb …

The southern granulite terrane: a synopsis

M Santosh - Episodes Journal of International Geoscience, 2020 - episodes.org
Abstract The Southern Granulite Terrane (SGT), the wedgeshaped southern termination of
Peninsular India, is a mosaic of several crustal blocks and intervening collisional …

Mesoarchean (ultra)-high temperature and high-pressure metamorphism along a microblock suture: Evidence from Earth's oldest khondalites in southern India

B Yu, M Santosh, T Amaldev, RM Palin - Gondwana Research, 2021 - Elsevier
Early continent-building processes on Earth are challenging to investigate, particularly since
juvenile felsic crust formed during the Early Archean (4.0–3.2 Ga) is rarely preserved. Thus …

Revisiting the paleogeographic framework of northeastern Gondwana in the late Paleozoic: Implications from detrital zircon analysis

B Gao, J Chen, W Qie, X Wang - Sedimentary Geology, 2022 - Elsevier
Abstract The Baoshan, Tengchong, Lhasa, South Qiangtang, and Sibumasu terranes were
part of Gondwana prior to rifting and drifting from the northern margin since the Early …

Petrochronological constraints on the origin of the Mountain Pass ultrapotassic and carbonatite intrusive suite, California

JE Poletti, JM Cottle, GA Hagen-Peter… - Journal of …, 2016 - academic.oup.com
Rare earth element (REE) ore-bearing carbonatite dikes and a stock at Mountain Pass,
California, are spatially associated with a suite of ultrapotassic plutonic rocks, and it has …

Magmatic and metamorphic evolution of a layered gabbro-anorthosite complex from the Coorg Block, southern India: Implications for Mesoarchean suprasubduction …

KS Anoop, Y Anilkumar, M Santosh, B Yu, KD Joy… - Gondwana …, 2022 - Elsevier
As one of the oldest crustal blocks in Southern Peninsular India, the Coorg Block has been
the focus of investigations related to crustal evolution in the early history of the Earth with …

[PDF][PDF] Insights into the crustal architecture from the analysis of gravity and magnetic data across Salem-Attur Shear Zone (SASZ), Southern Granulite Terrane (SGT) …

SS Ganguli, SK Pal, K Sundaralingam… - Episodes Journal of …, 2021 - episodes.org
The gravity and magnetic surveys were carried out across EW trending Salem-Attur Shear
Zone (SASZ), Southern Granulite Terrane (SGT), India. The study envisages detail crustal …

Petrogenesis of Mediterranean lamproites and associated rocks: The role of overprinted metasomatic events in the post-collisional lithospheric upper mantle

M Casalini, R Avanzinelli, S Tommasini, C Natali… - 2022 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
High-MgO lamproite and lamproite-like (ie lamprophyric) ultrapotassic rocks are recurrent in
the Mediterranean and surrounding regions. They are associated in space and time with …

Mesoarchean convergent margin processes and crustal evolution: Petrologic, geochemical and zircon U–Pb and Lu–Hf data from the Mercara Suture Zone, southern …

T Amaldev, M Santosh, L Tang, KR Baiju… - Gondwana …, 2016 - Elsevier
Abstract The Mercara Shear Zone is sandwiched between the Western Dharwar Craton and
the Coorg Block in the Southern Granulite Terrain of India, and is marked by steep gravity …