GEOG 3RW3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Orogeny, Dharwar Craton, Proterozoic
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Geography 3rw3 dr. basik page 1. Geological structures and relief: part 1: supercontinent pangaea, gondwanaland, figures, gonds name of an indian tribe. Plate about 50 million years ago consequences of plate tectonics. Earth"s crust during this mountain building process: 1. Trans-himalayan (kangdese) batholith old granites: 2. Indus tsangpo suture zones a belt of ophiolites: 3. Tibetan tethys himalaya marine sedimentary rocks: 4. High central himalayan crystalline zone ancient metamorphic rocks: 5. Lesser himalaya low grade sediments of older metamorphic rocks: 6. Indian plate: the tectonic units of himalayan tectonic zone, himalayan tectonic zone, the archean cratons of the indian subcontinent, figure, map showing the structural framework of the indian subcontinent, including. Precambrian cratons (boundaries approximate), structural trends defined by. Precambrian fold belts (primarily proterozoic), the rift zones (primarily. Geography 3rw3 dr. basik page 2: the oldest known segments of the earth"s crust are the archean cratons which form.