India-Antarctica-Australia-Laurentia connection in the Paleoproterozoic-Mesoproterozoic revisited: Evidence from new zircon U-Pb and monazite chemical age data from the Eastern Ghats Belt, India

Bulletin of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 123, Issue 9-10, 2011, Pages 2031-2049

  Bose, Sankar ^a   Dunkley, Daniel J ^b   Dasgupta, Somnath ^c   Das, Kaushik ^d   Arima, Makoto ^e  

^a PRESIDENCY UNIVERSITY   (India)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF POLAR RESEARCH   (Japan)

^c INDIAN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE EDUCATION AND RESEARCH KOLKATA   (India)

^d INDIAN INSTITUTE OF ENGINEERING SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (India)

^e YOKOHAMA NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGE DATA; AGE GROUPS; ANTARCTICA; AUSTRALIA; EAST ANTARCTICA; ORTHOGNEISSES; PALEOPROTEROZOIC; PARTIAL MELTING; RODINIA; SUPERCONTINENTS; TECTONO-THERMAL EVENT; TIME SPAN; ULTRAHIGH TEMPERATURE;

IGNEOUS ROCKS; ISOTOPES; LEAD; MONAZITE; PHOSPHATE MINERALS; ZIRCON;

GEOCHRONOLOGY;

ACCRETION; GRANULITE FACIES; LAURENTIA; MONAZITE; ORTHOGNEISS; PARTIAL MELTING; PROTEROZOIC; RODINIA; STRATIGRAPHIC CORRELATION; SUPERCONTINENT; ULTRAHIGH TEMPERATURE METAMORPHISM; URANIUM-LEAD DATING; ZIRCON;

ANTARCTICA; AUSTRALIA; INDIA;

EID: 80051594468     PISSN: 00167606     EISSN: 19432674     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/B30336.1     Document Type: Article

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