The dharwar craton, southern india, and its late archaean plate tectonic setting: current interpretations and controversies

Proceedings of the Indian Academy of Sciences, Earth and Planetary Sciences

Volumn 106, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 249-258

  Chadwick, Brian ^a   Vasudev, V N ^b   Hegde, G V ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

^b Thyagarajanagar ^*  (India)

Author keywords

Dhanvar craton; Late archaean; Plate tectonics; dharwar batholith

Indexed keywords

ARCHAEAN; PLATE TECTONIC SETTING;

EID: 0031397584     PISSN: 02534126     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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