A full-plate global reconstruction of the Neoproterozoic

AS Merdith, AS Collins, SE Williams, S Pisarevsky… - Gondwana …, 2017 - Elsevier
Neoproterozoic tectonic geography was dominated by the formation of the supercontinent
Rodinia, its break-up and the subsequent amalgamation of Gondwana. The Neoproterozoic …

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 …

[HTML][HTML] A new method of discriminating different types of post-Archean ophiolitic basalts and their tectonic significance using Th-Nb and Ce-Dy-Yb systematics

E Saccani - Geoscience Frontiers, 2015 - Elsevier
In this paper, a new discrimination diagram using absolute measures of Th and Nb is
applied to post-Archean ophiolites to best discriminate a large number of different ophiolitic …

Metamorphism and tectonic evolution of the Lhasa terrane, Central Tibet

ZM Zhang, X Dong, M Santosh, GC Zhao - Gondwana Research, 2014 - Elsevier
The Lhasa terrane in southern Tibet is composed of Precambrian crystalline basement,
Paleozoic to Mesozoic sedimentary strata and Paleozoic to Cenozoic magmatic rocks. This …

Precambrian greenstone sequences represent different ophiolite types

H Furnes, Y Dilek, M De Wit - Gondwana research, 2015 - Elsevier
We present here a global geochemical dataset from one hundred-and-five greenstone
sequences, ranging in age from the Eoarchean through the Archean and Proterozoic Eons …

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 …

The Neoproterozoic subduction complex in southern India: SIMS zircon U–Pb ages and implications for Gondwana assembly

M Santosh, WJ Xiao, T Tsunogae, TRK Chetty… - Precambrian …, 2012 - Elsevier
The Palghat-Cauvery Suture Zone (PCSZ) in southern India defines the trace of the
collisional suture developed during the assembly of the Gondwana supercontinent through …

Geochemical characterization and petrogenesis of intermediate to silicic rocks in ophiolites: A global synthesis

H Furnes, Y Dilek - Earth-Science Reviews, 2017 - Elsevier
We present a global synthesis of the geochemistry of intermediate to silicic intrusive and
volcanic rocks from 149 Phanerozoic to Archean ophiolites, and evaluate models for their …

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 …

A synopsis of recent conceptual models on supercontinent tectonics in relation to mantle dynamics, life evolution and surface environment

M Santosh - Journal of Geodynamics, 2010 - Elsevier
A synthesis of some of the recent conceptual models suggests that mantle dynamics exerted
a significant control on the assembly and breakup of supercontinents through the history of …