Anticlockwise evolution of ultrahigh-temperature granulites within continental collision zone in southern India

Lithos

Volumn 92, Issue 3-4, 2006, Pages 447-464

  Santosh, M ^a   Sajeev, K ^b  

^a KOCHI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b OKAYAMA UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Anticlockwise evolution; Collision zone; Palghat Cauvery Shear Zone; Southern India; Ultrahigh temperature

Indexed keywords

CAMBRIAN; COLLISION ZONE; CONTINENTAL COLLISION; EXHUMATION; GRANULITE; MINERALIZATION; OROGENY; P-T-T PATH; PROTEROZOIC; SHEAR ZONE; TECTONIC EVOLUTION; THERMAL EVOLUTION; ULTRAHIGH TEMPERATURE METAMORPHISM;

ASIA; CAUVERY BASIN; EURASIA; INDIA; KERALA; PALGHAT; SOUTH ASIA;

EID: 33749066754     PISSN: 00244937     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.lithos.2006.03.063     Document Type: Article

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