Formation of Proterozoic tholeiite intrusives in and around Cuddapah Basin, South India and their Gondwana counterparts in East Antarctica; and compositional variation in their mantle sources

Neues Jahrbuch fur Mineralogie, Abhandlungen

Volumn 174, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 79-102

  Chatterjee, Nilanjan ^a   Bhattacharji, Somdev ^b  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

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