STRATIGRAPHY ARTICLES

Cuddapah Super group

GEO-ARTICLES, STRATIGRAPHY ARTICLES / opengeology

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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Rise of Himalaya (phases)

GEO-ARTICLES, STRATIGRAPHY ARTICLES, STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY ARTICLES / opengeology

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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