The western Central Asian Orogenic Belt: a window to accretionary orogenesis and continental growth

W Xiao, M Santosh - Gondwana Research, 2014 - Elsevier
The architecture of accretionary orogens is a key to understand continental growth. Here we
present an overview of the orogenic components and their amalgamation in the western …

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 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 …

An exotic Mesoarchean microcontinent: the Coorg block, southern India

M Santosh, QY Yang, E Shaji, T Tsunogae… - Gondwana …, 2015 - Elsevier
Abstract Sandwiched between the Dharwar Craton in the north and the Neoarchean–
Proterozoic crustal blocks to the south, the Coorg Block in southern India is composed …

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 …

Discovery of Neoarchean suprasubduction zone ophiolite suite from Yishui Complex in the North China Craton

M Santosh, XM Teng, XF He, L Tang, QY Yang - Gondwana Research, 2016 - Elsevier
The Archean tectonic realm of the North China Craton (NCC) is considered in recent models
as a collage of several microblocks which were amalgamated along zones of ocean closure …

Neoproterozoic arc magmatism in the southern Madurai block, India: Subduction, relamination, continental outbuilding, and the growth of Gondwana

M Santosh, CN Hu, XF He, SS Li, T Tsunogae… - Gondwana …, 2017 - Elsevier
Abstract The Madurai Block in southern India is a composite collage of at least three sub-
blocks, with Neoarchean–Paleoproterozoic segments in the north and central domains, and …

Delineating crustal domains in Peninsular India: age and chemistry of orthopyroxene-bearing felsic gneisses in the Madurai Block

D Plavsa, AS Collins, JF Foden, L Kropinski… - Precambrian …, 2012 - Elsevier
The Madurai Block of southern India is rich in granitic orthogneiss, much of which is
orthopyroxene-bearing (charnockite). This study has identified that orthogneiss from the …

Tracing the crustal evolution of the Precambrian Southern Granulite terrane in East Gondwana: New insights from zircon U-Pb/Hf geochronology

JK Tomson, JA Dev - Bulletin, 2024 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
Abstract The Precambrian Southern Granulite terrane of south India has a crustal evolution
history broadly bracketed between the late Archean and Cambrian with records of …

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 …