enow.com Web Search

Search results

  1. Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
  2. Peninsular Gneiss - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peninsular_Gneiss

    Exposed gneiss hillock at Lal Bagh Geological Map of South India – The Dharwars of South India. The Archean gneisses and schists, which are the oldest rocks of the Indian Shield, constitute a considerable area of Peninsular India. The Dharwar (Super Group) and the Peninsular Gneissic Complex are the classified groups of the Precambrian rocks ...

  3. Khondalite - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khondalite

    Khondalite at Rushikonda, Visakhapatnam, India Khondalite is a foliated metamorphic rock.In India, it is also called Bezwada Gneiss and Kailasa Gneiss. [1] It was named after the Khond tribe [2] [1] of Odisha and Andhra Pradesh because well-formed examples of the rock were found in the inhabited hills of these regions of eastern India.

  4. Bugle Rock - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bugle_Rock

    Bugle Rock (Kahale Bande) is a massive rock in the Basavanagudi area of South Bengaluru, in the state of Karnataka. It is an abrupt rise above the ground of peninsular gneiss as the main rock formation and with an assessed age of about 3,000 million years. Bugle Rock has generated wide interest among the scientific community.

  5. Geology of India - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geology_of_India

    Due to continental drift, the India Plate split from Madagascar and collided with the Eurasian Plate resulting in the formation of the Himalayas.. The earliest phase of tectonic evolution was marked by the cooling and solidification of the upper crust of the earth's surface in the Archaean Era (prior to 2.5 billion years) which is represented by the exposure of gneisses and granites especially ...

  6. Indian Shield - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_Shield

    The southern granulite - gneiss terrain of Tamil Nadu - Kerala. The Eastern Ghat Mobile Belt (EGMB) along the east coast. The intra-cratonic "Purana" basins with thick sequences of platform facies rocks and/or rift related sediments .

  7. Dharwar Craton - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dharwar_Craton

    The location map of the Dharwar Craton. The shaded area represents the Dharwar Craton. Generated from GeoMapApp (Ryan et al., 2009). [1]The Dharwar Craton is an Archean continental crust craton formed between 3.6-2.5 billion years ago (), which is located in southern India and considered the oldest part of the Indian peninsula.

  8. Gneiss - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gneiss

    Augen gneiss, from the German: Augen, meaning "eyes", is a gneiss resulting from metamorphism of granite, which contains characteristic elliptic or lenticular shear-bound grains (porphyroclasts), normally feldspar, surrounded by finer grained material. The finer grained material deforms around the more resistant feldspar grains to produce this ...

  9. Deccan Plateau - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deccan_Plateau

    The Deccan is a plateau extending over an area of 422,000 km 2 (163,000 sq mi) and occupies the majority of the Indian peninsula.Shaped like an inverted triangle, it stretches from the Satpura and Vindhya Ranges in the north to the northern fringes of Tamil Nadu in the south.