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E–W strike slip shearing of Kinwat granitoid at South East Deccan Volcanic Province, Kinwat, Maharashtra, India

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We study the margin of South East Deccan Volcanic Province around Kinwat lineament, Maharashtra, India, which is NW extension of the Kaddam Fault. Structural field studies document \(\sim \)E–W strike-slip mostly brittle faults from the basement granite. We designate this as ‘Western boundary East Dharwar Craton Strike-slip Zone’ (WBEDCSZ). At local level, the deformation regime from Kinwat, Kaddam Fault, micro-seismically active Nanded and seismically active Killari corroborate with the nearby lineaments. Morphometric analyses suggest that the region is moderately tectonically active. The region of intense strike-slip deformation lies between seismically active fault along Tapi in NW and Bhadrachalam in the SE part of the Kaddam Fault/lineament. The WBEDCSZ with the surface evidences of faulting, presence of a major lineaments and intersection of faults could be a zone of intraplate earthquake.

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The authors thank their respective Head of the Departments for providing research facilities. SM was supported by CPDA grant and a research sabbatical for the year 2017 provided by IIT Bombay. Dr Surajit Misra and an anonymous reviewer are thanked along with the Handling Editor Prof. Saibal Gupta for intense critical comments in two rounds.

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  1. School of Earth Sciences, S.R.T.M. University, Nanded, Maharashtra, 431 606, India

    R D Kaplay, T Vijay Kumar & Sumeet Chavan

  2. Department of Earth Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, Powai, Mumbai, Maharashtra, 400 076, India

    Soumyajit Mukherjee

  3. Nanded Education Society’s Science College, Nanded, Maharashtra, 431 606, India

    P R Wesanekar

  4. Dnyanopasak College, Parbhani, Maharashtra, 431 401, India

    Md Babar

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Kaplay, R.D., Kumar, T.V., Mukherjee, S. et al. E–W strike slip shearing of Kinwat granitoid at South East Deccan Volcanic Province, Kinwat, Maharashtra, India. J Earth Syst Sci 126, 71 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12040-017-0853-8

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