Garnetiferous metabasites from the Sausar Mobile Belt: Petrology, P-T path and implications for the tectonothermal evolution of the Central Indian tectonic zone

Journal of Petrology

Volumn 44, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 387-420

  Bhowmik, Santanu Kumar ^a   Roy, Abhinaba ^a  

^a GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF INDIA   (India)

Author keywords

Central Indian tectonic zone; Clockwise P T path; Continental collision; Metabasite

Indexed keywords

CONTINENTAL COLLISION; GARNET; METABASALT; P-T CONDITIONS; PETROLOGY; TECTONIC EVOLUTION; THERMAL EVOLUTION;

(CENTRAL); INDIA;

EID: 0037345418     PISSN: 00223530     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/petrology/44.3.387     Document Type: Article

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