The Indian Subcontinent and Gondwana : A Palaeomagnetic and Rock Magnetic Perspective

Contents: Preface. Introduction by editors. 1. Palaeomagnetism and the Bushveld Complex in Southern Africa: some enigmas/P.J. Hattingh. 2. Orogenic deformation and its relationship to AMS fabric--an example from the Southern margin of the Aravalli mountain belt, India/Manish A. Mamtani, R.O. Greiling, R.V. Karanth and S.S. Merh. 3. Preliminary anisotropy of magnetic susceptibility (AMS) study on Mafic Rocks from the south eastern part of the Aravalli mountain, Rajasthan: strain pattern and tectonic implications/P.K. Verma and A.B. Roy. 4. Australian and Indian proterozoic APWPs and the time of Amalgamation of India and Australia/M. Idnurm and T. Radhakrishna. 5. Some perspectives on the Assembly of Gondwana/Joseph G. Meert. 6. Indian Shield in the Rodinia and Gondwana reconstructions: palaeomagnetic and geochronological inferences/T. Radhakrishna. 7. Paleomagnetism of the mesoproterozoic Gangau formation, basal Vindhyan supergroup, Madhya Pradesh/P.W. Schmidt and G.E. Williams. 8. Palaeomagnetic and rock magnetic studies in the Gondwana supergroup (Carboniferous-cretaceous), Northeast India/S. Basu Mallik, J.D.A. Piper and Ashis K. Das, G. Bandyopadhyay and G.J. Sherwood. 9. Magnetopetrologic study of sediments from the Gondwana supergroup, Northeast India/A.K. Das, J.D.A. Piper, G. Bandyopadhyay, S. Basu Mallik, G.J. Sherwood and S. Mondal. 10. Apparent polar wander of India since the cretaceous with implications for regional tectonics and true polar wander/Gary D. Acton. 11. Palaeomagnetism of the Himalaya-Karakoram belt and surrounding terranes since the jurassic: implications for three phase collision/Haider Zaman, Mitsuo Yoshida, Iftikhar Mustafa Khadim, Mirza Naseer Ahmad and Huma Akram. 12. Lithology and magnetostratigraphy of the upper Siwalik succession at Ramnagar (Uttar Pradesh), Kumaun Himalaya/B.S. Kotlia, K. Nakayama, B. Phartiyal, S. Tanaka, M.S. Bhalla, T. Tokuoka and R.N. Pande. 13. Palaeomagnetic and rock magnetic perspectives on the post-collisional continental sediments of the Himalaya, India/S.J. Sangode, Rohtash Kumar and Sumit K. Ghosh. 14. Palaeomagnetic results from late quaternary lake profiles at Wadda and Riyasi (Pithoragarh) and Phulara (Champawat), Kumaun Himalaya/B.S. Kotlia and B. Phartiyal. 15. Preliminary paleointensity results from Dolerite Dyke Swarm in Central Kerala, India/Mireille Perrin, Janna Riisager and Mathew Joseph.