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The Indian Craton

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From a geological standpoint, the Indian subcontinent can be separated into two contrasting regions. To the south, bounded by fracture-coastlines, lies the triangular cratonic region of Peninsular India and Ceylon which has remained stable since early Palaeozoic times. To the north rises the Himalayan belt, a sector of the Alpine-Himalayan mobile belt which has been subject to orogenic disturbance throughout Phanerozoic times. These two regions have had very different histories and it is widely believed that the craton which makes Peninsular India was brought into juxtaposition with the land-mass to the north of the Himalayan belt at a comparatively recent date, as a result of northward drifting after the break-up of Gondwanaland.

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  1. Imperial College of Science and Technology, University of London, UK

    H. H. Read F.R.S, F.R.S.E, F.G.S., D.Sc., A.R.C.S. (Sometime Professor Emeritus of Geology)

  2. Imperial College of Science and Technology, London, UK

    Janet Watson Ph.D., A.R.C.S., D.I.C. (Professor of Geology)

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Read, H.H., Watson, J. (1975). The Indian Craton. In: Introduction to Geology. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-15609-2_7

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