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Geological
Evolution of the
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Indian Shield
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Series Editor Foreword
The Indian Subcontinent is largely constituted by Precambrian cratons and mobile
belts; sedimentary basins containing record of nearly 3.0 billion years of Earth’s
historyandconstantlyremainedtheareaofextensiveresearchforgeoscientistsover
period of time. Cratons with Archean nuclei welded together by end Archean and
‘Purana basins’ developed subsequently in different pulses recorded geodynamic,
paleoenvironmental and paleogeographic signatures of Proterozoic. The evolution
oflifewasalsofirstidentifiedinthesesedimentarybasins.Thestatusofknowledge
andfuturecourseofstudyhasbeenevaluatedtimeandagaininpast,stilleffortsto
understandgeologicalevolutioncontinuedwithaddingnewdataandinterpretations
to our knowledge. These new data from Indian subcontinent are useful for
understanding global scenario of evolution of Earth during Precambrian.
Understandingtheneedofthehour,anationalconferenceandfieldworkshopon
‘Precambrians of India’ was organized at the heart of Bundelkhand craton (22–24
November,2016,Jhansi,U.P.,India)byTheSocietyofEarthScientistsjointlywith
Bundelkhand University. Based on the presentations, selected scientists were
invited to contribute for this volume Geological Evolution of the Precambrian
IndianShieldeditedbyProf. M.E.A.MondalofAligarhMuslimUniversity. The
contributions address almost all the aspects of Precambrian geology of India. The
book is published under prestigious Society of Earth Scientists Series by Springer.
I hope the contributions will evolve new understanding about the Precambrian
times.
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Contents
Indian Shield: Pristine Shape, Size and Tectonic Framework . . . . . . . . 1
A. B. Roy
Evolution of the Indian Shield: A New Approach . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
Ram S. Sharma and M. E. A. Mondal
Zircon U–Pb (SHRIMP) Ages of the Jahazpur Granite and
Mangalwar Gneiss from the Deoli-Jahazpur Sector, Rajasthan,
NW India: A Preliminary Reappraisal of Stratigraphic Correlation
and Implications to Crustal Growth. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
Bidisha Dey, Kaushik Das, Nilanjan Dasgupta, Sankar Bose,
Hiroshi Hidaka and Hindol Ghatak
Redox State of Atmosphere and Ocean at the
Archaean-Palaeoproterozoic Boundary: A Case Study from the
Sausar Belt, Central India . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57
S. Mohanty
Mineral Chemistry, Sr–Nd Isotope Geochemistry and Petrogenesis
of the Granites of Bathani Volcano-Sedimentary Sequence from the
Northern Fringe of Chotanagpur Granite Gneiss Complex of Eastern
India. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79
Ashima Saikia, Bibhuti Gogoi, Mansoor Ahmad, Rajeev Kumar,
Tatiana Kaulina and Tamara Bayanova
Stratigraphic Evolution and Architecture of the Terrestrial
Succession at the Base of the Neoproterozoic Badami Group,
Karnataka, India . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121
Soumik Mukhopadhyay, Pradip Samanta, Sinchan Bhattacharya
and Subir Sarkar
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Deformation and Tectonic History of Punagarh Basin in the
Trans-Aravalli Terrane of North-Western India . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 159
Anamika Bhardwaj and Tapas Kumar Biswal
Archean TTG Magmatism in the Aravalli Craton, NW India:
Petrogenetic and Geodynamic Constraints. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 179
Iftikhar Ahmad, M. E. A. Mondal and M. Satyanarayanan
Sulfidic Endowment in Granite-Greenstone Terrain in the Northern
Part of EDC: Possibilities of IOCG—Type Mineralizing Episodes. . . . . 205
B. C. Prabhakar and Mohamed Shareef
Deformation of Pyrite at Varying Metamorphic Grades in
Sediment-Hosted Base Metal Sulphide Deposits
of Rajasthan, India. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 221
Indrani Mukherjee, Anupam Chattopadhyay and Mihir Deb
Provenance and Tectonic Setting of the Proterozoic Clastic
Rocks of the Kerur Formation, Badami Group, Mohare Area,
Karnataka, India . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 239
K. Velmurugan, J. Madhavaraju, V. Balaram, A. Ramachandran,
S. Ramasamy, E. Ramirez-Montoya and J. C. Saucedo-Samaniego
Controls on Cyclic Sedimentation Within the Neoproterozoic Sirbu
Shale, Vindhyan Basin, Central India . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 271
PradipSamanta,SoumikMukhopadhyay,SunipaMandalandSubirSarkar
Trace, Rare-Earth Elements and C, O Isotope Systematics of
Carbonate Rocks of Proterozoic Bhima Group, Eastern Dharwar
Craton, India: Implications for the Source of Dissolved Components,
Redox Condition and Biogeochemical Cycling of Mesoproterozoic
Ocean. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 297
Nurul Absar, Mohd Qaim Raza, Sminto Augustine, Shreyas Managave,
D. Srinivasa Sarma and S. Balakrishnan
Geochemical and Nd Isotopic Studies of the Neoarchaean-
Palaeoproterozoic Granitoids of the Aravalli Craton, NW India:
Evidence for Heterogeneous Crustal Evolution Processes. . . . . . . . . . . . 327
Md. Sayad Rahaman, M. E. A. Mondal, Iftikhar Ahmad, R. Bhutani
and A. K. Choudhary
Aseismic Tectonism-Induced Soft-Sediment Deformation in a
Tranquil Palaeogeography: Chikkshelikere Limestone Member,
Proterozoic Kaladgi Basin, Southern India . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 351
Soumik Mukhopadhyay, Adrita Choudhuri, Nivedita Chakraborty
and Subir Sarkar
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Geochemical Constraints on the Petrogenesis of the
Metasedimentary Rocks Forming the Basement of the Shillong
Plateau, Northeast India. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 373
M. Faruque Hussain, V. Vanthangliana and M. E. A. Mondal
Geochemistry of Mafic–Felsic Rocks of Phulad Ophiolite, in and
Around Pindwara-Mount Abu Region, South Delhi Fold Belt,
NW Indian Shield: Implications for Its Tectonic Evolution . . . . . . . . . . 401
M. Shamim Khan, Roohi Irshad and Tavheed Khan
Genesis of Epidiorites Associated with Dhalbhum Formation of
Proterozoic Singhbhum Basin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 443
Vidyanand Bhagat and Vikash Kumar
Evolution of a Granite Gneiss-Migmatite Terrane in Rajasthan:
Melt Generation and Origin of Anjana Granite. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 473
D. B. Guha, Sandip Neogi and Ausaf Raza
Petrography and Diagenetic Evolution of the Proterozoic Kaimur
Group Sandstones, Son Valley, India: Implication Towards
Reservoir Quality. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 515
M. A. Quasim, Sumit K. Ghosh and A. H. M. Ahmad
Precambrian Crustal History Unraveled from the Geochemical
Studies of Post-Archean Rocks, Arunachal Pradesh, NE Lesser
Himalaya . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 551
Shaik A. Rashid, Shamshad Ahmad, Naqeebul Islam and Javid A. Ganai
Geochemistry of the Mafic Metavolcanic Rocks of
Mauranipur-Babina Greenstone Belt, Bundelkhand Craton, Central
India: Implication for Tectonic Settings During the Archaean. . . . . . . . 577
Ausaf Raza and M. E. A. Mondal
Occurrence of Tidalites in the Mesoproterozoic Subtidal-Intertidal
Flat, Lalsot Sub-basin, North Delhi Fold Belt, Rajasthan, India . . . . . . 609
Biplab Bhattacharya, Malini Chakraborty and Sunil Kumar Sharma
High-Field Strength Elements Geochemistry of Granite and
Co-genetic Pegmatites of the Kawadgaon Area, Bastar Craton,
Central India . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 629
Yamuna Singh, G. B. Rout, A. K. Bhatt, P. S. C. Pandit, Sanjay Bagora,
P. K. Gupta, S. D. Rai and G. B. Joshi
Metamorphism, Crustal Evolution and Amalgamation of Meso- to
Neo-Archaean Greenstone-Granite Craton and Granulite-Gneiss
Terrane in Rajasthan. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 651
D. B. Guha
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Geochemistry and Tectonic Setting of the Precambrian Mahakoshal
and Sonakhan Greenstone Belts of the Central Indian Shield . . . . . . . . 695
H. Wani and M. E. A. Mondal
Megascopic Carbonaceous Remains from Proterozoic
Basins of India . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 725
Mukund Sharma and Veeru Kant Singh
