Sm-Nd and Rb-Sr ages and P-T history of the Archean Sittampundi and Bhavani layered meta-anorthosite complexes in Cauvery shear zone, South India: Evidence for Neoproterozoic reworking of Archean crust

Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology

Volumn 125, Issue 2-3, 1996, Pages 237-250

  Bhaskar Rao, Y J ^a   Chetty, T R K ^a   Janardhan, A S ^b   Gopalan, K ^a  

^a NATIONAL GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (India)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MYSORE   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANORTHOSITE; P/T CONDITIONS; REWORKING; RUBIDIUM/STRONTIUM DATING; SAMARIUM/NEODYMIUM DATING;

INDIA, CAUVERY SHEAR ZONE;

EID: 0030366791     PISSN: 00107999     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s004100050219     Document Type: Article

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