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Singhbhum and Bastar Cratons

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Geodynamic Evolution of the Indian Shield: Geophysical Aspects

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The Singhbhum and Bastar cratons are located in the eastern part of the Indian shield, which are engulfed by surrounding rift valleys, thrust zones and active mobile belts. More than four decades ago, it was postulated through some studies that the Indian shield does not possess characteristics of a typical stable shield terrain. Out of these two cratons, Singhbhum craton, is perhaps the finest example of that, which forms one of the most deformed and degenerated segment of the Earth, possibly the only kind in the entire world, having been associated with sustained magmatism that lasted for over two billion years from Mesoarchaean to Neoproterozoic. SONATA geo-fracture and Mahanadi graben, together with the burst of Crozet/ Kerguelen plumes, seems to have played a major role in restructuring the crust-mantle structure beneath this cratonic block, which appears eroded, uplifted and characterized by anomalous geophysical signatures, like high gravity bias and high heat flow. It also has an unusually thin (65–100 km) and warm lithosphere, as a result of shearing and degeneration by the buoyant hot mantle.

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Pandey, O.P. (2020). Singhbhum and Bastar Cratons. In: Geodynamic Evolution of the Indian Shield: Geophysical Aspects. Society of Earth Scientists Series. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-40597-7_3

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