Fold-thrust-belt structure of the Proterozoic Eastern Ghats Mobile Belt: A proposed correlation between India and Antarctica in Gondwana

Gondwana Research

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 43-56

  Biswal, T K ^a   Sinha, S ^a  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY BOMBAY   (India)

Author keywords

Eastern Ghats Mobile Belt; Fold thrust belt; Gondwana; Rayner complex; Terrane boundary shear zone

Indexed keywords

CORRELATION; FOLD AND THRUST BELT; GONDWANA; LITHOLOGY; MOBILE BELT; PROTEROZOIC; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY;

ANTARCTICA; EASTERN GHATS; INDIA;

EID: 0742284933     PISSN: 1342937X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1342-937X(05)70305-1     Document Type: Article

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