The Eastern Ghats Belt … A polycyclic granulite terrain |
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| Authors: | Dhruba Mukhopadhyay Krishnapriya Basak |
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| Institution: | (1) Department of Geology, University of Calcutta, Kolkata, 700 019, India |
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| Abstract: | The Eastern Ghats Belt is a polycyclic granulite terrain along the east coast of India whose western boundary is marked by
a shear zone along which the granulites are thrusted over the cratonic units of the Indian shield, and its northern margin
is marked by the presence of a number of fault-bounded blocks. Recent work has convincingly brought out that there are domains
within the belt having different evolutionary histories. The segment south of the Godavari Rift went through a high grade
thermo-tectonic event at ∼1.6–1.7 Ga. North of the Godavari Rift in a narrow zone along the western boundary the last high-grade
metamorphic event is of late Archaean age. A series of alkaline plutons along the western boundary zone testifies to a rifting
episode at ∼1.3–1.5 Ga. In the major part of the EGB the metamorphism is broadly of Grenvillian age, with two major thermo-tectonic
pulses at ∼1.1–1.2 Ga and ∼0.95–1.0 Ga. But high grade conditions persisted for a long period and younger thermal events of
∼0.65 Ga to ∼0.80 Ga are locally recorded. There are differences in the tectonometamorphic histories of different domains,
but the tectonic significance of these differences remains uncertain. Pan-African (0.50–0.55) thermal overprints are common
and become conspicuous along the western boundary zone. The thrusting of the Eastern Ghats granulites in a hot state over
the cratons to the west is of Pan-African age. In the Rodinia assembly (∼0.9 Ga) the Eastern Ghats and the Rayner-Napier Complexes
of Antarctica were contiguous, but the pre-Rodinia configuration of these terrains remains unclear. At ∼0.8 Ga during the
Rodinia break up Greater India rifted apart from East Antarctica, and only later it docked with Australia-East Antarctica
at 530–550 Ma. The continuation of the East Antarctic Pan-African orogenic belts into the Eastern Ghats is yet to be ascertained. |
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| Keywords: | Granulite terrain Rodinia assembly Pan-African events Eastern Ghats |
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