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Reinterpretation of the Aravalli basal conglomerate at Morchana, Udaipur district, Rajasthan, western India

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 May 2009

K. Naha  and
A. Majumdar
K. Naha
Affiliation:
Department of Geology and Geophysics, Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, West Bengal, India
A. Majumdar
Affiliation:
Geological Survey of India, Gujarat Circle, Asram Road, Ahmedabad-14, Gujarat, India
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Summary

The supposed Aravalli basal conglomerate near Morchana, considered to mark an erosional unconformity above the older Precambrian Banded Gneissic Complex in central Rajasthan, is a tectonic mélange in a terrain involved in superposed deformations. The supposed pebbles represent tectonic inclusions of various shapes, formed by isoclinal folding, stretching and disruption of concordant, pre- or early-kinematic vein quartz and rare pegmatite sheets in the Aravalli mica schist during the first folding.

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Geological Magazine , Volume 108 , Issue 2 , May 1971 , pp. 111 - 114
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1971

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