The Chitradurga schist belt and its adjacent plutonic rocks, NW of Tungabhadra, Karnataka: A duplex in the Late Archaean convergent setting of the Dharwar Craton

Journal of the Geological Society of India

Volumn 61, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 645-663

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

^a Geomysore Service ^*  (India)

^b Geomysore Services (India) Pvt Ltd   (India)

Author keywords

Chitradurga schist belt; Dharwar Craton; Duplex structure; Gold mineralization; Karnataka; Late Archaean; Oblique convergence

Indexed keywords

ARCHEAN; CONVERGENT MARGIN; DUPLEX; GOLD; PLUTONIC ROCK; SCHIST; TECTONIC SETTING;

INDIA;

EID: 0141676345     PISSN: 00167622     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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