A 3.51Ga bimodal volcanics-BIF-ultramafic succession from Singhbhum Craton: Implications for Palaeoarchaean geodynamic processes from the oldest greenstone succession of the Indian subcontinent

Geological Journal

Volumn 47, Issue 2-3, 2012, Pages 284-311

  Mukhopadhyay, Joydip ^a   Ghosh, Gautam ^b   Zimmermann, Udo ^a   Guha, Susmita ^c   Mukherjee, Titir ^a  

^a PRESIDENCY UNIVERSITY   (India)

^b UNIVERSITY OF JOHANNESBURG   (South Africa)

^c UNIVERSITY OF STAVANGER   (Norway)

Author keywords

BIF; Dacitic volcanic rocks; Geodynamics; Greenstone belt; Iron Ore Group; Palaeoarchaean; Supra subduction zone

Indexed keywords

ARCHEAN; BANDED IRON FORMATION; CONVERGENT MARGIN; DACITE; DEEP WATER; DEPOSITIONAL ENVIRONMENT; GEODYNAMICS; GRANODIORITE; GREENSTONE BELT; LAVA FLOW; PLATE TECTONICS; PYROCLASTIC DEPOSIT; SUBDUCTION ZONE; TECTONIC SETTING; THRUST FAULT; TONALITE; TRONDHJEMITE; ULTRAMAFIC ROCK;

INDIA; SINGHBHUM CRATON;

EID: 84859392917     PISSN: 00721050     EISSN: 10991034     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/gj.1314     Document Type: Article

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