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The Aravalli mountain of Rajasthan, western India, has NE-SW orographic trend and runs for over 700 km through the States of Gujarat, Rajasthan, Haryana and Delhi. This belt is made up of Proterozoic supracrustal rocks of the Aravalli and Delhi Supergroups, which are distinct from each other in their deformational and metamorphic history. These Proterozoic supracrustals were deposited on the Archaean basement gneiss complex, called Banded Gneissic Complex (BGC) which is predominantly a polymetamorphosed, multideformed rock-suite of tonalite-trondhjemite gneiss, amphibolite, migmatite and granitoid, most of which are Archaean (3.4–2.6 Ga old) (see Chap. 3, Sect. 3.5).

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Sharma, R.S. (2009). Aravalli Mountain Belt. In: Cratons and Fold Belts of India. Lecture Notes in Earth Sciences, vol 127. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-01459-8_4

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