Proterozoic Orogens of India: A Critical Window to Gondwana provides a unique opportunity to understand a cross-section of the well-exposed and best-studied part of Earth's crust and the processes of continental collision. It covers pulses of reworking processes and their impact on magmatism, metamorphism and deformational history of Proterozoic orogens vis-à-vis the supercontinental formation. The details of structural architecture, crustal blocks, shear zone systems, magmatism, metamorphism, geochemical and isotopic signatures, mineralization and tectonic models of each orogen are discussed, and include field-based, multi-scale structural and geological data sets. The spatial distribution, geometry, kinematics and transgressional strain of the shear zone systems, which are critical to all conceptual models dealing with tectonic-metamorphic history of Proterozoic orogens of India, are also covered. The book summarizes and integrates the state-of -the art understanding of the structural architecture, lithological assemblages, petrological, geochemical, geochronological and geophysical aspects of the Proterozoic orogens and shear zone systems of the Indian shield. Includes a much needed summary of the voluminous data that has been put together on orogens of India, especially from the Eastern Ghats and Southern Granulite TerraneAuthored by a well-established expert with 20 years of experience in the geology of the Indian orogensCovers up-to-date reviews and models for some of the most important orogenic belts developed in the Indian shield over the past 2.5 billion years of Earth history INDICE: 1. Orogens 2. The Southern Granulite Terrane 3. The Eastern Ghats Mobile Belt 4. The Central Indian Tectonic Zone 5. The Aravalli Fold 6. Gondwana Correlations
- ISBN: 978-0-12-804441-4
- Editorial: Elsevier
- Encuadernacion: Rústica
- Páginas: 370
- Fecha Publicación: 01/09/2017
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés