The Aravalli-Delhi Mobile Belt (ADMB) in the northwestern part of Indian Shield represents final stage a complex tectonic evolution witnessed by recognition three distinct orogenies that have resulted northwestward accretion terranes belonging to Archaean Neoproterozoic ages. In this contribution, review deformation structures different is discussed with their implications and global correlatio...

This paper reviews the literature on dyking as a mechanism of felsic magma extraction from a source and transport to shallower crustal levels, and review the recent literature suggesting a range of alternative mechanisms of magma migration in hot crustal zones which produce mesoscale pervasive granite sheet intrusions. Recent papers have strongly favoured dyking as the main mechanism controllin...

Various mechanisms have been proposed for the dynamic cause and kinematic development of gneiss domes. They include (1) diapiric fl ow induced by density inversion, (2) buckling under horizontal constriction (i.e., extension perpendicular to compression), (3) coeval orthogonal contraction or superposition of multiple phases of folding in different orientations, (4) instability induced by vertic...

Sm-Nd isotopic data on Late Archean age metasedimentary rocks from around the Wyoming province yield ENd values at 2.6 Ga from -12.9 to +3.3, which correspond to depleted mantle model ages of 2.7 to 3.8 Ga. These results indicate that crust of a wide variety of ages was exposed and eroding in Late Archean time. The predominance of Middle Archean model ages suggests that continental crust was ex...