The role of the Southern Granulite Terrane of India in the amalgamation of Gondwana - a structural and geochronological perspective

Project Details

The supercontinent Gondwana amalgamated by a number of individual collisions in the latest Precambrian – Cambrian, at a time of erratic climate change and evolutionary experimentation. The rocks of southern India lie at the junction of a number of orogenic belts that formed during this time, making southern India a prime region for investigating the timing and structural record of these collisions. To date, these studies have not been done. This project aims to fill this knowledge gap and provide research training in field and laboratory structural analysis (macro and micro) and geochronological techniques (primarily U-Pb and Sm-Nd, but possibly also 40Ar-39Ar).

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Project funded by the University of Adelaide and the National Geophysical Research Institute, India and run in conjunction with the International Lithospheric LEGENDS Project.