An appraisal of Archaean supracrustal sequences in Chitradurga Schist Belt, Western Dharwar Craton, Southern India

Precambrian Research

Volumn 227, Issue , 2013, Pages 99-119

  Hokada, Tomokazu ^a,b   Horie, Kenji ^a   Satish Kumar, M ^c,f   Ueno, Yuichiro ^d   Nasheeth, Abdulla ^e   Mishima, Kaoru ^d   Shiraishi, Kazuyuki ^a,b  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF POLAR RESEARCH   (Japan)

^b GRADUATE UNIVERSITY FOR ADVANCED STUDIES   (Japan)

^c SHIZUOKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d TOKYO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^e Osaka Prefecture University   (Japan)

^f NIIGATA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Archaean; Chitradurga Schist Belt; Dharwar Craton; EMP monazite age; Metamorphic conditions; SHRIMP zircon age

Indexed keywords

ARCHEAN; BIOTITE; DEPOSITION; GNEISS; LITHOSTRATIGRAPHY; MONAZITE; MUSCOVITE; PROTOLITH; SCHIST; SEQUENCE STRATIGRAPHY; SHRIMP DATING; SUPRACRUSTAL ROCK; ZIRCON;

CHITRADURGA; DHARWAR CRATON; INDIA; KARNATAKA;

EID: 84875227282     PISSN: 03019268     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.precamres.2012.04.006     Document Type: Article

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