
TY  - JOUR
A1  - S. Collins, Alan 
A1  - Clark, Chris 
A1  - Santosh, M. 
A1  - Sajeev, K. 
A1  - Kropinski, Louise 
A1  - McKenzie, Stacey 
A1  - P. Hand, Martin 
A1  - D. Kinny, Peter 
T1  - The Mozambique Ocean Suture in Southern India: Age and Significance of Granulites in the Palghat-Cauvery Shear Zone System
JF  - ASEG Extended Abstracts
JO  - ASEG Extended Abstracts
Y1  - 2006
VL  - 2006
IS  - 1
SP  - 1
EP  - 3
KW  - 
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1071/ASEG2006AB027 
N2  - The Neoproterozoic oceans that closed as Gondwana amalgamated left a cryptic, yet recognisable, record in the resulting orogens. These consist of Neoproterozoic oceanic or ocean-margin protoliths, relatively high-pressure metamorphic belts separating distinct crustal domains, and Neoproterozoic provenance fronts. The southern Indian Palghat-Cauvery shear zone system, is interpreted as the remains of the Neoproterozoic Mozambique Ocean, because: a) it separates Archaean and Palaeoproterozoic granulites from the extensive Neoproterozoic-Cambrian Southern Granulite Domain; b) it contains mafic gneisses that may have formed within a Neoproterozoic Ocean; c) it preserves distinctive high pressure, ultra-high temperature granulites that were metamorphosed in the Cambrian Malagasy Orogeny, and; d) it isolates southern Indian Proterozoic metasediments that are unlikely to be sourced from north of the shear system. 
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