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 …

Palaeoproterozoic ancestry of Pan-African high-grade granitoids in southernmost India: Implications for Gondwana reconstructions

A Kröner, M Santosh, E Hegner, E Shaji, H Geng… - Gondwana …, 2015 - Elsevier
SHRIMP dating of magmatic zircons from granitoid gneisses and charnockites of the
Trivandrum and Nagercoil Blocks in the granulite terrane of southernmost India yielded well …

Applicability of the multispectral remote sensing on determining the natural rock complexes distribution and their evaluability on the radiation protection applications

NK Libeesh, KA Naseer, KA Mahmoud… - Radiation Physics and …, 2022 - Elsevier
The mafic and ultramafic rocks of Mettupalayam belong to Southern Granulite Terrain (SGT),
and it is prominent with economically valuable resources. The radiation shielding properties …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …