Authored by earnestly active and deeply perceptive earth scientists who had their ears to the ground and eyes roving the panorama of landscape,the 42 papers encompassing this tome speak volume of the range of subjects...Authored by earnestly active and deeply perceptive earth scientists who had their ears to the ground and eyes roving the panorama of landscape,the 42 papers encompassing this tome speak volume of the range of subjects,the nature of the works and the depth of analyses attempted.There is no gainsaying that together these learned papers by those who worked with the rocks,some were among the rocks all their lives,present a coherent and comprehensive narratives of the geodynamic evolution of the Indian subcontinent—a collage of multiple geological provinces such as Proterozoic and Tertiary mobile belts,the Indian Shield riven with graben-forming faults that break the Shield into a number of cratons,the continental margin framing the subcontinent all around,the lava plateau that is now dissected by faults,the Tertiary foreland basin and its sedimentary plains,and the Andaman-Nicobar Island Arc.Also discussed is a chunk of Antarctica.展开更多
文摘Authored by earnestly active and deeply perceptive earth scientists who had their ears to the ground and eyes roving the panorama of landscape,the 42 papers encompassing this tome speak volume of the range of subjects,the nature of the works and the depth of analyses attempted.There is no gainsaying that together these learned papers by those who worked with the rocks,some were among the rocks all their lives,present a coherent and comprehensive narratives of the geodynamic evolution of the Indian subcontinent—a collage of multiple geological provinces such as Proterozoic and Tertiary mobile belts,the Indian Shield riven with graben-forming faults that break the Shield into a number of cratons,the continental margin framing the subcontinent all around,the lava plateau that is now dissected by faults,the Tertiary foreland basin and its sedimentary plains,and the Andaman-Nicobar Island Arc.Also discussed is a chunk of Antarctica.
