The Deccan Volcanic Province (DVP), India: a review: Part 1: Areal extent and distribution, compositional diversity, flow types and sequences, stratigraphic …

P Krishnamurthy - Journal of the Geological Society of India, 2020 - Springer
Abstract The Deccan Volcanic Province (DVP), covering presently an area of 0.5 million km
2, and estimated to be 2–3 times larger during the Upper Cretaceous-Paleocene, is one of …

Opposite shear senses: Geneses, global occurrences, numerical simulations and a case study from the Indian western Himalaya

D Dutta, S Mukherjee - Journal of Structural Geology, 2019 - Elsevier
Opposite shear sense (OSS) is manifested by the presence of conflicting shear sense
indicators in a portion of a rock body, a shear/fault zone or across several parallel shear/fault …

The volcanic geoheritage of the Elephanta caves, Deccan traps, Western India

H Sheth, H Samant, V Patel, J D'Souza - Geoheritage, 2017 - Springer
Geoheritage, geoconservation, and geotourism studies are of increasing interest worldwide
because of their scientific, societal, cultural, and aesthetic value. Volcanic areas (whether …

Tectonic framework of geomorphic evolution of the Deccan Volcanic Province, India

G Dole, S Das, VS Kale - Earth-Science Reviews, 2022 - Elsevier
The geomorphology of the Deccan Volcanic Province (DVP) has its foundation in the
eruption of flood basalts that covered nearly half of the Indian Peninsula during the …

40Ar/39Ar dating of the Mumbai tholeiites and Panvel flexure: intense 62.5 Ma onshore–offshore Deccan magmatism during India-Laxmi Ridge–Seychelles breakup

K Pande, V Yatheesh, H Sheth - Geophysical Journal …, 2017 - academic.oup.com
Mumbai, located on the western Indian continental margin, exposes Danian-age Deccan
magmatic units of diverse compositions, dipping seaward due to the Panvel flexure. The …

Geochemistry of Deccan tholeiite flows and dykes of Elephanta Island: insights into the stratigraphy and structure of the Panvel flexure zone, western Indian rifted …

V Patel, H Sheth, C Cucciniello, GW Joshi, W Wegner… - Geosciences, 2020 - mdpi.com
Elephanta Island near Mumbai is an important area for understanding the stratigraphic and
structural framework of the Deccan flood basalt province in the tectonically disturbed Panvel …

Cretaceous volcanism in Peninsular India: Rajmahal–Sylhet and Deccan Traps

VS Kale - Geodynamics of the Indian Plate: Evolutionary …, 2020 - Springer
Abstract The Indian Peninsula hosts Cretaceous continental flood basalts (CFB) that
manifest its passage over the Kerguelen and Reunion hotspots in succession. The former …

Does Deccan Volcanic Sequence contain more reversals than the three-Chron N–R–N flow magnetostratigraphy?—a palaeomagnetic evidence from the dyke-swarm …

N Basavaiah, KVV Satyanarayana… - Geophysical Journal …, 2018 - academic.oup.com
New palaeomagnetic data from a series of Deccan-age dykes cutting across the basement
of lava flows along east and south of Mumbai (18°–19° N and 72°–73.5° E) have uncovered …

40Ar/39Ar dating of tholeiitic flows and dykes of Elephanta Island, Panvel flexure zone, western Deccan Traps: A five-million-year record of magmatism preceding …

H Samant, V Patel, K Pande, H Sheth… - Journal of Volcanology …, 2019 - Elsevier
Abstract Elephanta Island, located near Mumbai in the western Deccan Traps, is composed
of subaerially erupted tholeiitic lava flows and dykes, with no evolved or pyroclastic rocks. In …

[HTML][HTML] Breccia-cored columnar rosettes in a rubbly pahoehoe lava flow, Elephanta Island, Deccan Traps, and a model for their origin

H Sheth, I Pal, V Patel, H Samant, J D'Souza - Geoscience Frontiers, 2017 - Elsevier
Rubbly pahoehoe lava flows are abundant in many continental flood basalts including the
Deccan Traps. However, structures with radial joint columns surrounding cores of flow-top …