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 …

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 …

The lower crust of the Dharwar Craton, Southern India: Patchwork of Archean granulitic domains

JJ Peucat, M Jayananda, D Chardon, R Capdevila… - Precambrian …, 2013 - Elsevier
U–Pb geochronological, major and trace element and isotope geochemical data identify
crustal domains of contrasted petrological origins and histories in the lower crust of the …

Unravelling the record of Archaean crustal evolution of the Bundelkhand Craton, northern India using U–Pb zircon–monazite ages, Lu–Hf isotope systematics, and …

P Kaur, A Zeh, N Chaudhri, N Eliyas - Precambrian Research, 2016 - Elsevier
Combined whole-rock, U–Pb zircon and monazite dating, in situ zircon (MC)-SF-ICP-MS Lu–
Hf-isotope data are reported for more than 20 Archaean granitoid samples to constrain …

[PDF][PDF] The southern granulite terrane: a synopsis

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

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 …

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 …

[HTML][HTML] Hadean Earth and primordial continents: the cradle of prebiotic life

M Santosh, T Arai, S Maruyama - Geoscience Frontiers, 2017 - Elsevier
Abstract The Hadean history of Earth is shrouded in mystery and it is considered that the
planet was born dry with no water or atmosphere. The Earth-Moon system had many …

Zircon U–Pb geochronology and Hf isotope of felsic volcanics from Attappadi, southern India: implications for Neoarchean convergent margin tectonics

MN Praveen, M Santosh, QY Yang, ZC Zhang… - Gondwana …, 2014 - Elsevier
The Attappadi area on the south-western flanks of the Archean Dharwar Craton in southern
India is located along the E–W trending Bhavani Shear Zone which marks the trace of a …

Crustal root of the Eastern Dharwar Craton: zircon U–Pb age and Lu–Hf isotopic evolution of the East Salem Block, southeast India

S Glorie, J De Grave, T Singh, JL Payne… - Precambrian …, 2014 - Elsevier
Abstract The Salem Block represents the northern part of the Southern Granulite Terrane in
SE India, adjacent to the southern Dharwar Craton. New zircon U–Pb and Lu–Hf results on …