Provenance and depositional history of sandstones from the Upper Miocene Kudankulam Formation, Tamil Nadu

Journal of the Geological Society of India

Volumn 66, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 59-65

  Armstrong Altrin, John S ^a   Madhavaraju, J ^b   Ramasamy, S ^b   Asir, N Gladwin Gnana ^b  

^a UNIVERSIDAD AUTÓNOMA DEL ESTADO DE HIDALGO   (Mexico)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MADRAS   (India)

Author keywords

Depositional history; Kudankulam Formation; Microtextures; Provenance; Quartz grains; Tamil Nadu; Tirunelveli District

Indexed keywords

DEPOSITIONAL ENVIRONMENT; PROVENANCE; QUARTZ; SANDSTONE; TEXTURE;

ASIA; EASTERN HEMISPHERE; EURASIA; INDIA; SOUTH ASIA; TAMIL NADU; WORLD;

EID: 25844435215     PISSN: 00167622     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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