Tectonic evolution of the Eastern Ghats Belt, India

Precambrian Research

Volumn 227, Issue , 2013, Pages 247-258

  Dasgupta, Somnath ^a   Bose, Sankar ^b   Das, Kaushik ^c,d  

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

^b PRESIDENCY UNIVERSITY   (India)

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

^d HIROSHIMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Accretionary orogeny; Columbia; Eastern Ghats Belt; India; Rodinia; Tectonics

Indexed keywords

ACCRETION; COLLISION ZONE; CRUSTAL MOVEMENT; METAMORPHISM; PETROLOGY; PROTEROZOIC; RODINIA; SUPERCONTINENT; TECTONIC EVOLUTION; TECTONIC SETTING; ULTRAHIGH TEMPERATURE METAMORPHISM;

EASTERN GHATS; INDIA;

EID: 84875226462     PISSN: 03019268     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.precamres.2012.04.005     Document Type: Article

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