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Geology and Tectonics of the Indian Sub-continent constitute a significant component of the Indian Plate straddling the equator as a part of the Gondwanaland that broke into fragments at ~100 Ma and started moving northwards.
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Jain, A.K., Banerjee, D.M., Kale, V.S. (2020). Tectonics of the Indian Subcontinent: An Introduction. In: Tectonics of the Indian Subcontinent. Society of Earth Scientists Series. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-42845-7_1
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