India-Madagascar separation: Breakup along a pre-existing mobile belt and chipping of the Craton

Gondwana Research

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 467-485

  Raval, U ^a   Veeraswamy, K ^a  

^a NATIONAL GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (India)

Author keywords

Chipping; Continental breakup; Madagascar; Mobile belt; Western Dharwar craton

Indexed keywords

CONTINENTAL BREAKUP; CONTINENTAL LITHOSPHERE; CRATON; DEFORMATION; GRAVITY ANOMALY; MANTLE PLUME; METAMORPHISM; MOBILE BELT; MOHO;

DHARWAR CRATON; EASTERN GHATS; INDIA; MADAGASCAR;

EID: 0142062927     PISSN: 1342937X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1342-937X(05)70999-0     Document Type: Article

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