Images of possible fossil collision structures beneath the Eastern Ghats belt, India, from P and S receiver functions

Lithosphere

Volumn 2, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 84-92

  Ramesh, D S ^a   Bianchi, M B ^b   Sharma, S Das ^a  

^a NATIONAL CHEMICAL LABORATORY   (India)

^b NONE   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GEOCHRONOLOGY; IMAGING TECHNIQUES; RAPID TRANSIT; TECTONICS;

COLLISION EVENTS; COLLISIONAL; COLLISIONAL PROCESS; INDIAN SUBCONTINENTS; LONG LASTING; PRECAMBRIAN; S-RECEIVER FUNCTIONS; TECTONIC SETTINGS;

STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY;

CONVERGENCE; CRETACEOUS; DIP; FOSSIL RECORD; GEOCHRONOLOGY; LITHOSPHERE; OROGENIC BELT; PALEOZOIC; PROTEROZOIC; TECTONIC SETTING; BELT; COLLISION; GEOPHYSICS; NUMERICAL MODEL; PHOSPHORUS; PRECAMBRIAN; SULFUR;

EASTERN GHATS; INDIA;

EID: 78549249256     PISSN: 19418264     EISSN: 19474253     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/L70.1     Document Type: Article

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