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N–S crustal shear system in the Bundelkhand massif: A unique crustal evolution signature in the northern Indian peninsula

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The Bundelkhand massif, located in the northern part of the Indian shield, is a poly-deformed and poly-metamorphic terrain. This paper reports a new shear system developed throughout the massif in the form of N–S trending quartz veins that are sometimes quartzo-feldspathic and rarely granitic in composition. The veins are vertical and commonly occur in conjugate sets. This tectono-magmatic event appears to represent the youngest shear system of the massif as it cross-cuts all the earlier shear systems (E–W, NE–SE and NW–SE). Emplacement of this N–S vein system may have taken place due to extensional processes that developed some cracks along which siliceous magma was vertically emplaced. The complete absence of signature of the N–S event from the surrounding sedimentary cover of Vindhyan Supergroup, Bijawar and Gwalior Groups suggests that this shear system is pre-tectonic to the nearly E–W trending passive basins developed at the margins of the Bundelkhand craton. Further, several workers have considered the Bundelkhand massif as a part of the Aravalli craton. However, due to the absence of N–S, as well as the other (i.e., E–W, NW–SE and NW–SE), tectonic fabrics of the Bundelkhand massif in other cratons of the Peninsular India, and vice versa, makes the Bundelkhand block a separate and unique craton of its own and is not part of the Aravalli craton.

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ARB thanks the Head, Centre of Advanced Study in Geology, University of Lucknow, for providing working facilities. We would also like to thank the two anonymous reviewers of this paper for their constructive comments and suggestions. Finally, thanks to Dr A K Verma for his help during preparation of the manuscript.

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  2. Centre of Advanced Study in Geology, University of Lucknow, Lucknow, 226 007, India

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Singh, S.P., Bhattacharya, A.R. N–S crustal shear system in the Bundelkhand massif: A unique crustal evolution signature in the northern Indian peninsula. J Earth Syst Sci 126, 121 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12040-017-0900-5

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