Uniformitarianism Revisited : Comparison Between Ancient and Modern Orogens of India : Proceedings of the Workshop on IGCP 453 : Nagpur

Contents: I. Ancient Orogen: i. Cratonic Domain: 1. A review of terrane evolution in the precambrian Dharwar and Bastar Cratons/H.M. Ramachandra. ii. Singhbhum orogen: 1. Singhbhum mobile Belt - How far it fits an ancient orogen/S. Sengupta and Basab Chattopadhyay. 2. Modelling ancient orogens - an example from North Singhbhum mobile belt/Sabyasachi Dasgupta. 3. Structural pattern in the Dhalbhumgarh-Kokpara region and its bearing on the tectonics of the Proterozoic fold belt of North Singhbhum, Eastern India/Dhruba Mukhopadhyay, Manua Ghosh and Ashim Chattopadhyay. 4. Mobility of aluminium during deep crustal metasomatism : some examples from Singhbhyum Shear Zone and the adjoining areas of Eastern India/Pulak Sengupta, Nandini Sengupta (nee Bandyopadhyay) and Dhruba Mukhopadhyay. 5. The eastern Ghats Belt, India - a new look at an old orogen/Saibal Gupta. 6. Structural Asymmetry and plate tectonic set-up for a proterozoic fold-and-thrust belt : Nallamalai fold belt and adjoining terrane, South India/Dilip Saha. 7. Eastern Ghats mobile belt - a plate tectonic perspective/S. Bhattacharya. 8. Petrology of the Anorthosite Massifs and Associated Charnockite Suite in Orissa, Eastern Ghats, India : implications for Rodinia reconstruction/A. Joshi, N.C. Pant, J.K. Nanda and S. Neogi. iii. Delhi Aravalli orogen: 1. Ancient orogens of Aravalli Region/Pratip Gupta. 2. Intersecting proterozoic transpressional orogens, Major crustal and suspect terranes in Rajasthan Craton : a plate tectonic perspective/S. Sinha Roy. 3. Tectonometamorphic evolution of Boudin-type granulites in the Central Indian Tectonic Zone and in the Aravalli - Delhi mobile belt; a synthesis and future perspectives/Santanu Kumar Bhowmik and Somnath Dasgupta. 4. Geological evolution of the Trans-Aravalli Block (TAB) of the NW Indian shield : constraints from the Malani Igneous Suite (MIS) and its Seychelles connection during late proterozoic/Naresh Kochhar. 5. Evidence of ancient plate tectonics in the evolution of the crustal architecture of Rajasthan : a hypothesis deduced from gravity survey/L.K. Das, B.N.P. Agarwal and A.K. Das. iv. Central Indian Tectonic Zone : 1. Petrotectonic implications of granites from the Tan Shear Zone in Central India : an example of acid Magmatism in proterozoic collisional orogen/Abhinaba Roy, M. Hanuma Prasad and K. Chakraborty. 2. Geology and petrochemistry of Padhar Mafic-ultramafic complex from Betul belt : a study on Arc-type magmatism in Central Indian Tectonic zone/Abhinaba Roy, S.A. Chore, L.L. Visvakarma and K. Chakraborty. 3. Fold-thrust tectonics of the Sausar fold belt, Central India, and its bearing on the adjacent high pressure metamorphic rocks/Anupam Chattopadhyay and B.K. Bandyopadhyay. 4. Plate tectonics and metallogenesis in Central Indian Shield/K.G. Bhoskar, A.K. Saha and K. Sashidharan. 5. Westward extension of Central Indian tectonic zone into Aravalli-Delhi orogenic belt : a refinement of the earlier views/M. Deb and Anupam Chattopadhyay. 6. Some serious difficulties faced by plate tectonic model of geodynamics and problems within the Indian plate/Mrinal Kanti Mukherjee and Abhinaba Roy. II. Modern Orogen: v. Himalaya: 1. Metamorphism and Magmatism in a young orogen: Himalayan examples/P.K. Verma. 2. Tectono-stratigraphy of Southeastern part of Indus tectonic belt in context with Suture Zone, between Nidar in the Northwest and Chesum in the Southeast, Leh, Ladakh, Jammu and Kashmir/C. Wangdus, S.C. Uppal and Lokinder Singh Ravi.