The Aravalli Mountains extending from Delhi in the north-east to the Gulf of Cambay in the south-west. The besetment of the Aravalli Mountains is comprised of Banded Gneissic Complex of Neoarchean age. It is overlain by three major cycles of deposition followed by orogenic deformation over the period from about 2.2Ga to 0.85 Ga. They […]
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A sequence of predominantly arenaceous and calcareous sediments was deposited in Bikaner-Nagaur Basin in the west of the Aravalli Range that has been formally named as Marwar Supergroup. This sequence was earlier regarded as equivalent of the Upper Vindhyan Group and was named as the Trans-Aravalli Vindhyans.
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The Cuddapah Basin is a crescent shaped, N-S trending Proterozoic basin in east-central part of the Dharwar craton. Chitravati (Cheyyair) Group :- The Chitravati Group consists of two formations: the Pulivendla Quartzite and the Tadpatri Formation. The transition from the Papaghni Group to the Chitravati Group is marked by the intermittent occurrence of mafic flows
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The rise of Himalaya has been related with the northward drift of the Indian Plate and it’s consequent collision with the Eurasian Plate. Paleomagnetic data from the floor of the India ocean suggests that the northward drift of the India Plate was most rapid during the Paleocene Epoch. This was also the time of the
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