Overview
- Documents the tectonic evolution of the Indian sub-continent
- Includes contemporary data sets
- Links to an updated tectonic map
Part of the book series: Society of Earth Scientists Series (SESS)
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Table of contents (10 chapters)
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Front Matter
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About this book
This books documents the salient characters of the tectonic evolution of the Indian subcontinent. It showcases the well investigated subcontinent of Gondwana. The book is linked to an updated geological and tectonic map of this region on 1:12,000,000 in scale. The Indian subcontinent displays almost uninterrupted and unique the geological history since about Eo-Archean (~3800 Ma) to recent, with the development of many Proterozoic deformed and metamorphosed fold belts around Archean nuclei, and enormously thick undeformed platform deposits. After their stabilization during late Proterozoic, the subcontinent underwent Paleozoic rifting and deposition of coal-bearing thick sequences, followed by enormously-thick outpouring of Deccan volcanics as a consequence of huge mantle plume. The youngest event in its evolution is the Cenozoic Himalayan Orogenic Mountains, spanning the area between Nanga Parbat and Namcha Barwah; a part of which extends both in Pakistan and Myanmar.
Reviews
“I appreciate the book and find it useful for various aspects of geology and geophysics of the Indian subcontinent for its updated geochronological data and an exhaustive work on the Himalayan Mountain range.” (Ram S Sharma, Journal of Earth System Science, Vol. 29, 2020)
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Tectonics of the Indian Subcontinent
Authors: A.K. Jain, D.M. Banerjee, Vivek S. Kale
Series Title: Society of Earth Scientists Series
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-42845-7
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-42844-0Published: 08 April 2020
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-42847-1Published: 08 April 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-42845-7Published: 07 April 2020
Series ISSN: 2194-9204
Series E-ISSN: 2194-9212
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXIII, 576
Number of Illustrations: 139 b/w illustrations, 66 illustrations in colour
Topics: Geophysics/Geodesy, Structural Geology, Geographical Information Systems/Cartography