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 …

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 …

[PDF][PDF] Proterozoic Alkaline rocks and carbonatites of Peninsular India: A review

D Paul, J Chandra, M Halder - Episodes, 2020 - academia.edu
Alkaline igneous rocks, defined in terms of their total alkali (Na2O+ K2O) and SiO2
compositions, include a wide range of rocks that contain modal/normative alkali-rich …

Carbonatites of India

P Krishnamurthy - Journal of the Geological Society of …, 2019 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
Based on the field relations, associated rock types and age, the carbonatite-alkaline rock
complexes of India, that are spatially related to deep main faults, rifts and shear zones, have …

Petrogenesis of Mediterranean lamproites and associated rocks: The role of overprinted metasomatic events in the post-collisional lithospheric upper mantle

M Casalini, R Avanzinelli, S Tommasini, C Natali… - 2022 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
High-MgO lamproite and lamproite-like (ie lamprophyric) ultrapotassic rocks are recurrent in
the Mediterranean and surrounding regions. They are associated in space and time with …

Devonian alkaline magmatic belt along the northern margin of the North China Block: Petrogenesis and tectonic implications

QQ Zhang, SH Zhang, Y Zhao, JM Liu - Lithos, 2018 - Elsevier
Some Devonian magmatic rocks have been identified from the northern margin of the North
China Block (NCB) in recent years. However, their petrogenesis and tectonic setting are still …

Sediment-derived origin of the putative Munnar carbonatite, South India

E Hegner, S Rajesh, M Willbold, D Müller… - Journal of Asian Earth …, 2020 - Elsevier
Metacarbonate assemblages in high-grade metamorphic terranes often pose challenges
when trying to distinguish between mantle-derived carbonatite and sedimentary carbonate …

Mineralogy of Pakkanadu carbonatites and associated rocks, South India: constraints on evolution and evidences for REE enrichment

SN Mahapatro, T Meshram, M Korakappa - Mineralogy and Petrology, 2023 - Springer
The Pakkanadu carbonatite-alkaline complex (PCAC) is one of the nine carbonatite-alkaline
complexes, situated along the NE-SW trending Dhramapuri Rift Zone in Southern Granulite …

Multiple mantle melting events for two overlapping ca. 2.21-2.18 Ga mafic dyke swarms in the Dharwar craton, India

AK Samal, AK Rai, RK Srivastava - International Geology Review, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
Two distinct NW-to WNW-trending mafic dike swarms of the previously dated ca. 2.21 Ga
Anantapur-Kunigal and ca. 2.18 Ga Mahbubnagar-Dandeli swarms, emplaced in the …

Active rifting and bimodal volcanism in Proterozoic Papaghni sub-basin, Cuddapah basin (Andhra Pradesh), India

S Goswami, S Dey, S Zakaulla, MB Verma - Journal of Earth System …, 2020 - Springer
Bimodal volcanism in the Cuddapah basin is associated with a cratonic rift setting. The
Cuddapah basin consists of five sub-basins (viz., Papaghni, Nallamalai, Srisailam, Kurnool …