Growth of continental crust in intra-oceanic and continental-margin arc systems: Analogs for Archean systems

T Kusky, L Wang - Science China Earth Sciences, 2022 - Springer
Earth's continental crust has grown and been recycled throughout geologic history along
convergent plate margins. The main locus of continental crustal growth is in intra-oceanic …

Arc-generated blocks with crustal sections in the North Atlantic craton of West Greenland: crustal growth in the Archean with modern analogues

BF Windley, AA Garde - Earth-Science Reviews, 2009 - Elsevier
The ca. 700 km long, Archean craton of West Greenland consists of six Meso–Neoarchean
(ca. 3000–2720 Ma) shear zone—bounded crustal blocks that display similar cross-sections; …

Carbonatites: related ore deposits, resources, footprint, and exploration methods

GJ Simandl, S Paradis - Applied Earth Science, 2018 - journals.sagepub.com
Most carbonatites were emplaced in continental extensional settings and range in age from
Archean to recent. They commonly coexist with alkaline silicate igneous rocks, forming …

Precambrian crustal evolution of Peninsular India: a 3.0 billion year odyssey

JG Meert, MK Pandit, VR Pradhan, J Banks… - Journal of Asian Earth …, 2010 - Elsevier
The Precambrian geologic history of Peninsular India covers nearly 3.0 billion years of time.
India is presently attached to the Eurasian continent although it remains (for now) a separate …

The genesis of Archaean chromitites from the Nuasahi and Sukinda massifs in the Singhbhum Craton, India

SK Mondal, EM Ripley, C Li, R Frei - Precambrian Research, 2006 - Elsevier
The chromitite deposits of the Nuasahi and Sukinda massifs are part of layered ultramafic
bodies which occur within Archaean low-grade metamorphic rocks of the Iron Ore Group …

Plate tectonics, the Wilson Cycle, and mantle plumes: geodynamics from the top

K Burke - Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences, 2011 - annualreviews.org
By 1968, J. Tuzo Wilson had identified three basic elements of geodynamics: plate tectonics,
mantle plumes of deep origin, and the Wilson Cycle of ocean opening and closing, which …

Chapter 3 the Archaean and Proterozoic history of Peninsular India: Tectonic framework for Precambrian sedimentary basins in India

JG Meert, MK Pandit - Geological Society, London, Memoirs, 2015 - lyellcollection.org
The Precambrian geological history of Peninsular India covers nearly 3.0 Ga. The Peninsula
is an assembly of five different cratonic nuclei known as the Aravalli–Bundelkhand, Eastern …

Compositional variations in the Mesoarchean chromites of the Nuggihalli schist belt, Western Dharwar Craton (India): potential parental melts and implications for …

R Mukherjee, SK Mondal, MT Rosing, R Frei - Contributions to Mineralogy …, 2010 - Springer
The chromite deposits in the Archean Nuggihalli schist belt are part of a layered ultramafic–
mafic sequence within the Western Dharwar Craton of the Indian shield. The 3.1-Ga …

Geochronology and geochemistry of Neoproterozoic Mt. Abu granitoids, NW India: Regional correlation and implications for Rodinia paleogeography

LD Ashwal, AM Solanki, MK Pandit, F Corfu… - Precambrian …, 2013 - Elsevier
Abstract The∼ 125 km 2 Mt. Abu granitic pluton in Rajasthan, northwestern India, consists of
variably deformed, subsolvus, dominantly metaluminous, I-type, porphyritic hornblende …

Carbonatites of India

P Krishnamurthy - Journal of the Geological Society of …, 2019 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
Based on the field relations, associated rock types and age, the carbonatite-alkaline rock
complexes of India, that are spatially related to deep main faults, rifts and shear zones, have …