Proto-India was a part of Rodinia Evidence from Grenville-age suturing of the Eastern Ghats Province with the Paleoarchean Singhbhum Craton》.pdf

Precambrian Research 266 (2015) 506–529 Contents lists available at ScienceDirect Precambrian Research j o u r n a l h o m e p a g e : w w w. elsev /locate/precamres Proto-India was a part of Rodinia: Evidence from Grenville-age suturing of the Eastern Ghats Province with the Paleoarchean Singhbhum Craton Sabyasachi Chattopadhyay a , Dewashish Upadhyay a,∗ , Jayanta Kumar Nanda b , Klaus Mezger c , Kamal Lochan Pruseth a , Jasper Berndt d a Department of Geology and Geophysics, Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, India b S-4/113, Niladrivihar, Chandrasekharpur, Bhubaneshwar 751021, India c Institute for Geology and Centerfor Space and Habitability, University of Bern, Baltzerstrasse 1+3, CH-3012 Bern, Switzerland d Institute for Mineralogy, Westfälische Wilhelms-University, Corrensstrasse 24, 48149 Münster, Germany a r t i c l e i n f o a b s t r a c t Article history: The timing of amalgamation of the Eastern Ghats Province with the Indian shield is central to the corre- Received 22 November 2014 lation between proto-India and east Antarctica in reconstructions of the supercontinent Rodinia. In this Received in revised form 25 April 2015 study, the metamorphic and geochronological evolution of the Malayagiri supracrustal belt in the Rengali Accepted 18 May 2015 Province, a wedge-shaped Neoarchean cratonic terrane located between the Paleo-Mesoarchean Singhb- Available online 27 May 2015 hum cratonic nucleus and the Meso-Neoproterozoic Eastern Ghats Province has been used to