...Swapnil Kumar Rai; Divya Prakash; Roopali Yadav; Srishti Jaiswal; R.S. Kumar; Chandra Kant Singh Abstract An infrequent occurrence of sapphirine from metapelite rocks of the Cardamom hills of South India has been reported. This report of sapphirine may not be the first from the Southern Granulite...

...J. B. Auden Abstract The geometric drainage patterns observed in three areas in India have led to closer study and the location of shatter zones that are considered the source of control. In the Cardamom hills area in south India the major control of drainage is the northwest-southeast strike...

...D. C. Mishra; A. P. Singh; M. B. S. Vyaghreswara Rao Abstract The Idukki earthquake with epicentre around Nedumkandam, approximately 20 km east of the Tdukki reservoir, has been in the news. A detailed gravity profile from Bangalore to Trivandrum across Cardamom-Palni hill ranges has delineated...

... shows that the area comprises essentially of granites, granitic gneisses and migmatites. It has to be ascertained whether these granites represent a single emplacement or a number of plutonic bodies within the gneisses. -Cardamom hills domain The Cardamom hills domain, south of the Anamalai hills...

... the granulite province of southern Peninsular India consisting of high grade rnetamorphics, 0016 -7622/93/41-5-431/$ 1.OO 0 Geol. Soc. India. 432 N. K.THAKUR AND NANDINI NAGARAJAN granites and gneisses as exposed in the discontinuous hills of Palni-Cardamom and Anamalai as well as the pIains to the east...

... the east, King (1962) suggests a Gondwana cycle of planation for the remnants that now survive at elevations of 8760' (2633 m) and 8800' (2695 m) upon the Nilgiri and the Cardamom hills respectively; a Post-Gondwana cycle of landscape around 6500' (1969 m) near Ootacamund and some of the higher levels upon...

... not extend southeastwards paralleling the Thai–Cambodian border, nor extend under the Cardamom Mountains but, rather, extends eastwards into Cambodia and possibly then turns southwards along the strike of the Pursat–Kampot Fold Belt. Gubler ( 1935 ) mapped metamorphic and igneous rocks which he included...

... or blocks as discussed in the text. Inset map shows the position of the KKB in relation to other geological domains and area of southern India. 1 , Dhawar Craton, north of the orthopyroxene-in isograd. 2 , Archean areas south of the orthopyroxene-in isograd. 3 , Madurai Block and Kodaikanal–Cardamom...

... to the north of the Nilgiris and to the Kottai Malai (2018 m), the Devar Malai (1922 m) and the Agastya Malai (1869 m) in the Cardamom and the Varushanad hills to the south of the Palni hills. Reconstruction of the palaeosurface based on the remnants suggests that the surface marked by a physiographic high...

... of the Kerala aulacogene (Fig. 4). The Salem, Madurai and Kerala aulacogenes intersect to form the charnockitic massif of the Anamalai (AN)-Palni (PA)-Cardamom (CD) Hills. Sri Lankian Aulacogene The NE trending Highland Series of Sri Lanka is the best developed aulacogene of the region, with prominent lineament...

... to the seismic sketch map of India accompanying the above paper shows a marked concentration of epicentres along the east coast from Nellore to Ganjam, near Salem and its surroundings, the eastern margin of the Nilgiri and Cardamom hills, in south Travancore and the Central Highlands of Ceylon. The Count...

... the Kaveri River. These two major tributaries also originate from the uplifted regions of Nilgiri, Cardamom, and Anaimalai hills. The two major tributaries and the main channel are thought to follow major, crustal-scale shear known as the Palghat-Kaveri gap, separating two continental blocks ( Radhakrishna...

.... Metamorphic 0016-7622/95-46-1-37/$ l.OO©GEOL. SOc. INDIA D.V. SUBBA RAO AND OTHERS evolution and the nature of the provenance arc also discussed . GEOLOGICAL SETTING The Kodaikanal block comprtSlng Anaimalai, Palni and the Cardamom hills arc predominantly composed of orth ogenisses (charnocki te, basic...

... This valley has a distinct linear expression on the satellite mosaic of South India and forms an integral part of the SGT. It is bordered by the Kodaikatial hills in the north,the Cardamom hills in the west and Varushanad hills in the east (Fig.1). The valley is the geomorphicexpression of deep crustal fault...

... in the south, such as Nilgiris, Anamalais, Cardamom hills and Agasthyamalai range, it is referred to as Southern Block. The South Western Ghats cause moisture-filled winds from the Arabian Sea to rise, resulting in a heavy downpour of nearly 2000 mm per year. Downpours are more common in the south and last...