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 …

Archean sodic metagranitoids from the Southern São Francisco Craton: Review, petrogenesis, and tectonic implications

MB Simon, EM Bongiolo, CA Avila, W Teixeira… - Lithos, 2021 - Elsevier
Gray gneiss complexes comprise most of the Archean crust in the Southern São Francisco
Craton and its surroundings, and their metagranitoid components can be distinguished …

Neoarchean to Paleoproterozoic crustal evolution of the central Aravalli-Banded Gneissic Complex (NW India): Evidence from zircon U-Pb-Hf isotope systematics and …

P Kaur, A Zeh, N Chaudhri, S Sharma - Precambrian Research, 2023 - Elsevier
Abstract The central Aravalli-Banded Gneissic Complex in NW India is an Archean nucleus
that was extensively reworked during the late Paleo-to Neoproterozoic. New results of …

Neodymium isotope constraints on the origin of TTGs and high-K granitoids in the Bundelkhand Craton, Central India: implications for Archaean crustal evolution

KB Joshi, SK Singh, J Halla, T Ahmad… - Lithosphere, 2022 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
The Bundelkhand craton in central India consists mainly of abundant high-K granitoids
formed at the Archaean-Proterozoic boundary and several enclosed rafts of TTGs (tonalite …

[HTML][HTML] Regional gravity field distribution over cratonic domains of the Indian shield: Implications for lithospheric evolution and destruction

A Vasanthi, M Santosh - Geosystems and Geoenvironment, 2022 - Elsevier
The nature of crust and lithospheric mantle evolution of the Archean shields and their
subsequent destruction through intraplate tectonic processes are important in understanding …

Superplastic deformation inside the knife-sharp shear bands in mid-crustal granites

A Sikdar, D Dutta, S Misra - Journal of Structural Geology, 2023 - Elsevier
We examined the microstructures of three ductile shear bands of granitic composition that
deformed under mid-to-upper greenschist facies. These shear bands, from the Bundelkhand …

Neoarchean crustal reworking inferred from granitoids in the western Dharwar Craton: Constraints from Nd isotopic composition, trace elements, and phase …

S Sebastian, R Bhutani, S Balakrishnan, JK Tomson - Lithos, 2023 - Elsevier
The granitoid magmatism in the Chitradurga greenstone belt implies crustal reworking in the
western Dharwar Craton during the Neoarchean. High-K granites and low-K trondhjemites …

Crust-mantle structure and lithospheric destruction of the oldest craton in the Indian shield

A Vasanthi, AP Singh, N Kumar, BN Rao… - Precambrian …, 2021 - Elsevier
The Singhbhum craton is among the five Archean cratons of Peninsular India that preserves
some of the oldest continental nuclei. In this work, we present a new and complete Bouguer …

Mineral chemistry, geochemistry and geophysical investigations of Simlipal volcanics from Eoarchean Singhbhum Craton (Eastern India): geodynamic implications of …

SK Dwivedi, SH Jafri, DS Sarma, P Tripathi… - International Journal of …, 2022 - Springer
Singhbhum craton in eastern India is one of the oldest and perhaps geologically and
geophysically most complex geological terrains on the surface of the Earth, containing a …

Existence of the Dharwar–Bastar–Singhbhum (DHABASI) megacraton since 3.35 Ga: constraints from the Precambrian large igneous province record

RK Srivastava, RE Ernst, U Söderlund, AK Samal… - 2022 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
We propose a Precambrian megacraton (consisting of two or more ancient cratons),
DHABASI in the Indian Shield, which includes the Dharwar, Bastar and Singhbhum cratons …