Proterozoic Orogens of India: A Critical Window to Gondwana

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 all the Proterozoic orogens of India are discussed along with excellent illustrations reflecting the field-based, multi-scale structural and geological data sets.

The spatial distribution, geometry, kinematics and transpressional strain of the shear zone systems (mostly suture zones), which are critical to all conceptual models dealing with tectono-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 of India.

Includes a much needed state-of-the-art  tectonic summary of the voluminous data that has emerged from the Protrozoic orogens of India  in the last 2-3 decadesAuthored by a well-established expert with more than 30 years of experience in the field based, multi-scale  structural geological studies of  the ancient orogens of IndiaCovers up-to-date reviews and models of Proterozoic orogens  developed in the Indian shield over the past 2.5 billion years of Earth history

1. Orogens 2. The Southern Granulite Terrane 3. The Eastern Ghats Mobile Belt 4. The Central Indian Tectonic Zone 5. The Aravalli Fold Mountain Belt 6. Gondwana correlations