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Journal Article

The Eastern Ghats Belt … A polycyclic granulite terrain

Journal Journal of the Geological Society of India
Publisher Springer India, in co-publication with Geologic
ISSN 0016-7622 (Print) 0974-6889 (Online)
Issue Volume 73, Number 4 / April, 2009
DOI 10.1007/s12594-009-0034-8
Pages 489-518
Subject Collection Earth and Environmental Science
SpringerLink Date Tuesday, May 26, 2009
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Dhruba Mukhopadhyay1 and Krishnapriya Basak1

Received: 8 May 2008 Accepted: 1 September 2008 Published online: 20 May 2009

Abstract The Eastern Ghats Belt is a polycyclic granulite terrain a

western boundary is marked by a shear zone along which the granu
the Indian shield, and its northern margin is marked by the presence
Recent work has convincingly brought out that there are domains w
evolutionary histories. The segment south of the Godavari Rift wen
event at ∼1.6–1.7 Ga. North of the Godavari Rift in a narrow zone
grade metamorphic event is of late Archaean age. A series of alkali
zone testifies to a rifting episode at ∼1.3–1.5 Ga. In the major part
of Grenvillian age, with two major thermo-tectonic pulses at ∼1.1–
grade conditions persisted for a long period and younger thermal ev
recorded. There are differences in the tectonometamorphic histories
significance of these differences remains uncertain. Pan-African (0.
and become conspicuous along the western boundary zone. The thr
hot state over the cratons to the west is of Pan-African age. In the R
Ghats and the Rayner-Napier Complexes of Antarctica were contig
these terrains remains unclear. At ∼0.8 Ga during the Rodinia brea
Antarctica, and only later it docked with Australia-East Antarctica a
East Antarctic Pan-African orogenic belts into the Eastern Ghats is
Keywords Granulite terrain - Rodinia assembly - Pan-African events - Eastern G

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