Depositional setting of the Kolhan Group: Its implications for the development of a Meso to Neoproterozoic deep-water basin on the south Indian craton

South African Journal of Geology

Volumn 109, Issue 1-2, 2006, Pages 183-192

  Mukhopadhyay, Joydip ^a   Ghosh, Gautam ^a   Nandi, Ajoy K ^a   Chaudhuri, Asru K ^b  

^a PRESIDENCY UNIVERSITY   (India)

^b INDIAN STATISTICAL INSTITUTE   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRATON; DEPOSITION; LITHOLOGY; PROTEROZOIC; RIFT ZONE;

EID: 33747613350     PISSN: 10120750     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2113/gssajg.109.1-2.183     Document Type: Article

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