Early growth of the Indian lithosphere: Implications from the assembly of the Dharwar Craton and adjacent granulite blocks, southern India

This study provides a new perspective into the Archean accretionary tectonic evolution of the Dharwar Craton and the adjacent high-grade granulite blocks of southern India. The necessary constraints for this tectonic assembly were derived using new petrochemical and zircon U-Pb age data from the granulite facies Biligiri Rangan Block (BRB), which occupies a central key position in the Archean collage of southern India. The BRB, composed largely...