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 …

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 …

Geological evidence for the operation of plate tectonics throughout the Archean: Records from Archean paleo-plate boundaries

TM Kusky, BF Windley, A Polat - Journal of Earth Science, 2018 - Springer
Plate tectonics describes the horizontal motion of rigid lithospheric plates away from
midoceanic ridges and parallel to transforms, towards deep-sea trenches, where the …

Crustal evolution of the Southern Granulite Terrane, south India: New geochronological and geochemical data for felsic orthogneisses and granites

S Brandt, MM Raith, V Schenk, P Sengupta… - Precambrian …, 2014 - Elsevier
This article presents LA-ICPMS U-Pb zircon and U-Th-Pb monazite ages and geochemical
data for felsic orthogneisses and granites from the Southern Granulite Terrane of India, a key …

Neoarchean continental growth through arc magmatism in the Nilgiri Block, southern India

VO Samuel, M Santosh, S Liu, W Wang, K Sajeev - Precambrian Research, 2014 - Elsevier
The formation and growth of continental crust in the Archean have been evaluated through
models of subduction–accretion and mantle plume. The Nilgiri Block in southern India …

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 …

Neoarchean suprasubduction zone arc magmatism in southern India: Geochemistry, zircon U-Pb geochronology and Hf isotopes of the Sittampundi Anorthosite …

MR Mohan, M Satyanarayanan, M Santosh… - Gondwana …, 2013 - Elsevier
The Sittampundi Anorthosite Complex (SAC) in southern India is one of the well exposed
Archean layered anorthosite-gabbro-ultramafic rock associations. Here we present high …

Suprasubduction zone ophiolite from Agali hill: petrology, zircon SHRIMP U–Pb geochronology, geochemistry and implications for Neoarchean plate tectonics in …

M Santosh, E Shaji, T Tsunogae, MR Mohan… - Precambrian …, 2013 - Elsevier
The southern margin of the Dharwar Craton in Peninsular India preserves the records of an
active convergent margin during the Neoarchean. Here we report the discovery of a …

Hot orogens and supercontinent amalgamation: A Gondwanan example from southern India

C Clark, D Healy, T Johnson, AS Collins, RJ Taylor… - Gondwana …, 2015 - Elsevier
Abstract The Southern Granulite Terrane in southern India preserves evidence for regional-
scale high to ultrahigh temperature metamorphism related to the amalgamation of the …

Triassic eclogite from northern Vietnam: inferences and geological significance

N Nakano, Y Osanai, K Sajeev… - Journal of …, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
The first finding of low‐temperature eclogites from the Indochina region is reported. The
eclogites occur along the Song Ma Suture zone in northern Vietnam, which is widely …