Geotectonic remobilisation of the lower-crustal segment of southern peninsular India

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Deep crustal exposures on various continental platforms have recently attracted much attention with regard to their evolution and relevance to present-day tectonics. The granulite terrain of the southern part of peninsular India exhibits unique characteristics: the small dimensions bounded by two rifted margins, high relief as a result of recent uplift, and anomalous gravity, magnetic and electromagnetic signatures. The geophysical anomalies over this region have been cohered to produce a tentative geodynamic model in which the break-up of Gondwana (150 my BP), subsequent rifting of the western margin of India (70 my BP) and the collision with Asia and post-collision stresses (50 my BP) play a role in the remobilisation of the crust-mantle regime of South India. The geophysical signatures over this deep crustal cross-section differ markedly from those of its counterparts in other parts of the world and thus may reflect the consequences of recent remobilisation rather than features frozen-in since Proterozoic time. In this sense, deep crustal imaging of southern peninsular India may differ from that in other continental platforms.

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