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 …

Deep faunistic turnovers preceded the rise of dinosaurs in southwestern Pangaea

MD Ezcurra, LE Fiorelli, AG Martinelli… - Nature Ecology & …, 2017 - nature.com
The Triassic period documents the origin and diversification of modern amniote lineages
and the Late Triassic fossil record of South America has been crucial to shed light on these …

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 …

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 …

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 …

Oldest rocks from Peninsular India: evidence for Hadean to Neoarchean crustal evolution

M Santosh, QY Yang, E Shaji, MR Mohan… - Gondwana …, 2016 - Elsevier
The evolution of continental crust during Hadean and Archean and related geodynamic
processes provides important clues to understand the early Earth history. Here we report …

Detrital zircons in basement metasedimentary protoliths unveil the origins of southern India

D Plavsa, AS Collins, JL Payne, JD Foden… - …, 2014 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
Abstract Coupled U-Pb and Hf isotopic analysis of detrital zircons from metasedimentary
rocks of the Southern Granulite terrane (India) provides provenance information that helps …