Geological, geophysical, and inherited tectonic imprints on the climate and contrasting coastal geomorphology of the Indian peninsula

The Indian subcontinent comprises accreted cratonic fragments that underwent subsequent rifting–subduction–collision processes along major mobile belts. It is also a storehouse of a prolonged history of crustal evolution involving repeated episodes of magmatism, volcanism, sedimentation, and metamorphism, and the formation of intracratonic and foreland basins. The geologic–geomorphic evolution of the Peninsula is recorded in relic faults/suture...