Structural evolution of Gavilgarh-Tan Shear Zone, central India: A possible case of partitioned transpression during Mesoproterozoic oblique collision within Central Indian Tectonic Zone

Precambrian Research

Volumn 186, Issue 1-4, 2011, Pages 70-88

  Chattopadhyay, A ^a   Khasdeo, L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DELHI   (India)

Author keywords

Central India; Oblique collision; Partitioned transpression; Rodinian crustal assembly; Shear zone; Stretching lineation

Indexed keywords

CONTINENTAL COLLISION; CRUSTAL EVOLUTION; GEOCHEMISTRY; GEOCHRONOLOGY; GRANITOID; KINEMATICS; LINEATION; PARTITIONING; RODINIA; SHEAR ZONE; TECTONIC EVOLUTION; TRANSITION ZONE; TRANSPRESSION;

INDIA;

EID: 79952577020     PISSN: 03019268     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.precamres.2011.01.006     Document Type: Article

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