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![General geological map of the East Indian Shield comprising the Chotanagpur Granite Gneissic Complex (CGGC) in the north, North Singhbhum Fold Belt (NSFB) in the middle and Singhbhum Craton in the south (modified after Acharyya, 2003). The red star shows the occurrence of the studied nepheline syenite in the southern portion of the Domain-IA of the CGGC. MSRF – Monghyr-Saharsa Ridge Fault; EITZ – Eastern Indian Tectonic Zone; NPSZ – North Purulia Shear Zone; SPSZ – South Purulia Shear Zone; SSZ – Singhbhum Shear Zone. Deformed nepheline syenites and carbonatites of the CGGC are marked as blue coloured circles and squares, respectively.]()
![(a) Regional geological map of CGGC (modified after Goswami & Bhattacharyya, 2013) showing the spatial disposition of various lithologies. The study area is highlighted by a triangle. (b) Regional map of CGGC (modified after Mukherjee et al.2019) showing the three geological domains; the triangle represents the study area. The rectangle on the inset map of India delimits the area shown. EITZ – Eastern Indian Tectonic Zone; NPSZ – North Purulia Shear Zone; RT – Rajmahal Trap; SPSZ – South Purulia Shear Zone; SSZ – Singhbhum Shear Zone.]()
![(a) The disposition of the major cratonic blocks and tectonic elements within Peninsular India are shown (modified after Naganjaneyulu & Santosh, 2010). AFB – Aravalli Fold Belt; BBG – Bhandara–Balaghat granulite; CGC – Chhotanagpur Gneissic Complex; EGB – Eastern Ghats Belt; NSMB – North Singhbhum Mobile Belt; SPGC – Shillong Plateau Gneissic Complex. Archaean cratons: BK – Bundelkhand; BS – Bhandara; KR – Karnataka, SB – Singhbhum. (b) Geological map of the Chhotanagpur Gneissic complex (modified after Mazumdar, 1988) with the study area at Jhalida (marked by the yellow rectangle) in the eastern part. SNNF – Son-Narmada North Fault; SNSF – Son-Narmada South Fault; BTF – Balarampur–Tattapani Fault; DVFS – Damodor Valley South Fault; SPSZ – South Purulia Shear Zone; SSZ – Singhbhum Shear Zone; EITZ – East Indian Tectonic Zone. (c) Geological map of a part of the North Purulia Shear Zone in the NW Purulia district (modified after GSI). The studied area is highlighted by the black rectangle. (d) Geological map in and around Jhalida, Purulia district, West Bengal, India.]()
![Geological map of Chhotonagpur Gneissic Complex (CGC), modified after Sanyal and Sengupta, 2011; the box at the south western part of the map shows the study area; inset clarifies position of CGC with respect to other tectonic units: Chhotonagpur Gneiss Granulite Complex (CGGC); Central Indian Tectonic Zone (CITZ); Bundelkhand Craton (BKC); Northern Crustal Province (NCP); Aravalli Delhi Fold Belt (ADFB); Baster Craton (BC); Dharwar Craton (DC); Southern Crustal Province (SCP); Eastern Ghat Belt (EGB); North Purulia Shear Zone (NPSZ); South Purulia Shear Zone (SPSZ); Singhbhum Shear Zone (SSZ).]()
![Modelled rare earth element (REE) compositions derived from partial melting (batch melting) of enriched metabasalt. Starting material (assumed metabasalt) is an incompatible-element-enriched amphibole granulite occurring in the North Purulia Shear Zone. Mineral-melt partition coefficients from Rollinson (1993).]()
![Geological map of the Chotanagpur Granite Gneiss Complex (modified after Acharyya 2003). The inset shows the location of the CGGC, along with other Proterozoic mobile belts of India, including the Central India Tectonic Zone (CITZ), Eastern Ghats Belt (EGB), Shillong Meghalaya Gneissic Complex (SMGC), Singhbhum Mobile Belt (SMB), and Aravalli Delhi Mobile Belt (ADMB). Four Archean cratonic nuclei of India, namely Singhbhum (SC), Bastar (BC), Bundelkhand (BuC), and Karnataka (KC), are also shown (modified after Chatterjee et al. 2008). Abbreviations: DL – Daltonganj, DM – Dumka, DVB – Dalma Volcanic Belt, D – Dudhi, J – Jirgadandi, MGB – Makrohar Granulite belt, NPSZ – North Purulia Shear Zone, PR – Purulia, RJ – Rajmahal Hills, RN – Ranchi, R – Rihand-Renusagar Area, SMGB – Son Mahanadi Gondwana Basins, SPSZ – South Purulia Shear Zone, SSZ – Singhbhum Shear Zone, SONA – Son Narmada Lineament, M – Munger, VB – Vindhyan Basin, BVSs – Bathani Volcanic and Volcano-sedimentary Sequence, An – Anorthosite, B – Bankura.]()
![(A) Geological sketch map of the eastern and northeastern region of the Indian Shield showing the Singhbhum craton, consisting of Chhotanagpur gneissic complex (CGC) and Singhbhum granite complex (SGC), and the Shillong Plateau (SP)–Mikir Hills (MH) (based on and modified from Acharyya, 2003; Melluso et al., 2012; Bhowmik et al., 2012; Srivastava et al., 2019b). The Damodar Valley and Shillong Plateau alkaline provinces are also shown. (B) Distribution of Mesoproterozoic and Cretaceous mafic dikes in the CGC (modified from Kumar and Ahmad, 2007; Srivastava et al., 2014). BFS—Brahmaputra fault system; BTSZ—Badapani-Tyrsad shear zone; CHB—Chhattisgarh basin; DFS—Dauki fault system; JFS—Jamuna fault system; KF—Kopali fracture; NF—Nongcharam fault; NPSZ—North Purulia shear zone; RTB—Rajmahal tholeiitic basalt; SPSZ—South Purulia shear zone; SSZ—Singhbhum shear zone; STB—Sylhet tholeiitic basalt; UNL—Um-Ngot lineament; VB—Vindhyan Basin. A to E—Gondwana sedimentary basins (A—Karanpura; B—Bokaro; C—Jharia; D—Raniganj; E—Mahanadi). 1–6—Alkaline-carbonatite complexes in SP-MH (1—Swangkre-Rongjeng; 2—Sung Valley; 3—Mawpyut; 4—Jasra; 5—Samchampi; 6—Barpung).]()
![(a) Left: tectonic map of India showing the location of the Central Indian Tectonic Zone (CITZ) along with other Proterozoic mobile belts of India, including the Eastern Ghats Mobile Belt (EGMB) and the Aravalli Delhi Mobile Belt (ADMB). The CITZ comprises the central CITZ, the Chotanagpur Granite Gneiss Complex (CGGC) and the easternmost Shillong Plateau Gneissic Complex (SPGC). The Bathani Volcano Sedimentary Sequence (BVSS) lies within the ENE–WSW-trending Son-Narmada (SONA) lineaments shown in dashed lines. Four Archaean cratonic nuclei of India, namely Singhbhum, Bastar, Bundelkhand and Dharwar, are also shown (modified after Pradhan et al. 2009). GB – Godavari Basin; MB – Mahanadi Basin; MMB – Mahakoshal Mobile Belt; SB – Satpura Basin; NSMB – North Singhbhum Mobile Belt; SGT – Southern Granulite Terrain. Right: CGGC (map modified after Sanyal & Sengupta, 2012). The map represents five subdivisions of CGGC, namely (I) Ranchi–Purulia; (II) Hazaribagh–Dumka; (III) Giridih–Deoghar; (IV) Bihar Mica Belt; and (V) Rajgir–Kharagpur subdivisions as proposed by Mahadevan (2002) delineated by brown lines. Also shown in the map are current subdivisions of CGGC proposed by Mukherjee et al. (2019) marked as Domain I (IA and IB), Domain II and Domain III. The red square box shows the study area. NPSZ – North Purulia Shear Zone; SPSZ – South Purulia Shear Zone. (b) Geological map of the area near Bathani village of the Bathani Volcano sedimentary sequence after M Ahmad & AQ Paul, unpub. report (2013). Sample locations are marked in stars.]()
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![(A) Diagram showing differences in tectonic histories in Chottanagpur Gneiss Complex (CGC) and North Singhbhum Mobile Belt (NSMB) crustal domains, based on age data obtained from both domains (see text) and not restricted to this study only. Green horizontal bars represent duration of major phases of deformation-metamorphism and magmatic activities. T—temperature. (B) Tectonic cartoon showing two stages of NSMB-CGC collision between 1.02 Ga and 0.91 Ga along South Purulia Shear Zone (see text for details). Note that Rodinia-aged within-plate A-type granites occur exclusively within CGC and not within NSMB at the southern margin of Central Indian Tectonic Zone. This necessitates a northward Rodinia-age subduction followed by mantle delamination broadly synchronous with North India block–South India block collision. Large black arrows represent convergent directions. SC—Singhbhum Craton; N-NSMB—Northern NSMB; S-NSMB—Southern NSMB; CGC—Chottanagpur Gneiss Complex; SSZ—Singhbhum Shear Zone.]()
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![(A) Rodinia reconstruction showing location of Central Indian Tectonic Zone (CITZ) as part of the circum-global 1.1–0.9 Ga collision belt (Bhattacharya et al., 2023). Black thick lines are Rodinia-age collision zones. CITZ is shown in box. (B) Generalized geological map of Central India (adopted from Banerjee et al., 2021) showing CITZ demarcated by red lines between North India block (NIB) and South India block (SIB). Red box shows Chottanagpur Gneiss Complex (CGC). (C) Generalized geological map of CGC with red boxes showing areas previously studied (Maji et al., 2008; Rekha et al., 2011; Bhattacharya et al., 2019; Sequeira and Bhattacharya, 2020, 2021; Sequeira et al., 2020, 2022). Blue box shows location of area examined in this study (Figs. 2 and 3) across contact between CGC and North Singhbhum Mobile Belt (NSMB). In the box in (B), South Purulia Shear Zone (SPSZ) (existing models) is demarcated by black line separating CGC and NSMB.]()
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Petrogenesis of a nepheline syenite from parts of the Chotanagpur Granite Gneissic Complex: implications for Neoproterozoic crustal extension in the East Indian Shield Available to Purchase
Journal: Geological Magazine
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 28 April 2022
Geological Magazine (2022) 159 (8): 1295–1322.
...Satabdi Das; Deepak K Sinha; Sanjoy Sanyal; Subrata Karmakar; Biswajit Panigrahi; Sirina Roy Choudhury; Shyamal Sengupta; Pulak Sengupta Abstract The North Purulia Shear Zone that dissects the granulite basement of the Chotanagpur Granite Gneissic Complex of the East Indian Shield exposes...
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General geological map of the East Indian Shield comprising the Chotanagpur... Available to Purchase
in Petrogenesis of a nepheline syenite from parts of the Chotanagpur Granite Gneissic Complex: implications for Neoproterozoic crustal extension in the East Indian Shield
> Geological Magazine
Published: 28 April 2022
nepheline syenite in the southern portion of the Domain-IA of the CGGC. MSRF – Monghyr-Saharsa Ridge Fault; EITZ – Eastern Indian Tectonic Zone; NPSZ – North Purulia Shear Zone; SPSZ – South Purulia Shear Zone; SSZ – Singhbhum Shear Zone. Deformed nepheline syenites and carbonatites of the CGGC are marked
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(a) Regional geological map of CGGC (modified after Goswami & Bhattacha... Available to Purchase
in Genesis of coronae and implications of an early Neoproterozoic thermal event: a case study from SE Chotanagpur Granite Gneissic Complex, India
> Geological Magazine
Published: 05 May 2020
domains; the triangle represents the study area. The rectangle on the inset map of India delimits the area shown. EITZ – Eastern Indian Tectonic Zone; NPSZ – North Purulia Shear Zone; RT – Rajmahal Trap; SPSZ – South Purulia Shear Zone; SSZ – Singhbhum Shear Zone.
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(a) The disposition of the major cratonic blocks and tectonic elements with... Available to Purchase
in Petrogenesis of the post-collisional porphyritic granitoids from Jhalida, Chhotanagpur Gneissic Complex, eastern India
> Geological Magazine
Published: 20 August 2020
rectangle) in the eastern part. SNNF – Son-Narmada North Fault; SNSF – Son-Narmada South Fault; BTF – Balarampur–Tattapani Fault; DVFS – Damodor Valley South Fault; SPSZ – South Purulia Shear Zone; SSZ – Singhbhum Shear Zone; EITZ – East Indian Tectonic Zone. (c) Geological map of a part of the North
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Geological map of Chhotonagpur Gneissic Complex (CGC), modified after Sanya... Available to Purchase
in Petrogenesis of Ultramafic-Mafic to Felsic Plutonic Rock Associations from Southern Portion of Chhotanagpur Gneissic Complex in Central India: A Multi-stage Crust-mantle Interaction Process
> Journal of the Geological Society of India
Published: 01 March 2013
Indian Tectonic Zone (CITZ); Bundelkhand Craton (BKC); Northern Crustal Province (NCP); Aravalli Delhi Fold Belt (ADFB); Baster Craton (BC); Dharwar Craton (DC); Southern Crustal Province (SCP); Eastern Ghat Belt (EGB); North Purulia Shear Zone (NPSZ); South Purulia Shear Zone (SPSZ); Singhbhum Shear
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Modelled rare earth element (REE) compositions derived from partial melting... Available to Purchase
in Petrogenesis of the post-collisional porphyritic granitoids from Jhalida, Chhotanagpur Gneissic Complex, eastern India
> Geological Magazine
Published: 20 August 2020
Fig. 13. Modelled rare earth element (REE) compositions derived from partial melting (batch melting) of enriched metabasalt. Starting material (assumed metabasalt) is an incompatible-element-enriched amphibole granulite occurring in the North Purulia Shear Zone. Mineral-melt partition
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Geological map of the Chotanagpur Granite Gneiss Complex (modified after A... Available to Purchase
in The Genesis of Emulsion Texture Owing To Magma Mixing in the Ghansura Felsic Dome of the Chotanagpur Granite Gneiss Complex of Eastern India
> The Canadian Mineralogist
Published: 16 May 2019
– Dalma Volcanic Belt, D – Dudhi, J – Jirgadandi, MGB – Makrohar Granulite belt, NPSZ – North Purulia Shear Zone, PR – Purulia, RJ – Rajmahal Hills, RN – Ranchi, R – Rihand-Renusagar Area, SMGB – Son Mahanadi Gondwana Basins, SPSZ – South Purulia Shear Zone, SSZ – Singhbhum Shear Zone, SONA – Son Narmada
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(A) Geological sketch map of the eastern and northeastern region of the Ind... Open Access
in Nature of Cretaceous dolerite dikes with two distinct trends in the Damodar Valley, eastern India: Constraints on their linkage to mantle plumes and large igneous provinces from 40 Ar/ 39 Ar geochronology and geochemistry
> Lithosphere
Published: 12 December 2019
). BFS—Brahmaputra fault system; BTSZ—Badapani-Tyrsad shear zone; CHB—Chhattisgarh basin; DFS—Dauki fault system; JFS—Jamuna fault system; KF—Kopali fracture; NF—Nongcharam fault; NPSZ—North Purulia shear zone; RTB—Rajmahal tholeiitic basalt; SPSZ—South Purulia shear zone; SSZ—Singhbhum shear zone; STB
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(a) Left: tectonic map of India showing the location of the Central Indian ... Available to Purchase
in Mafic rocks with back-arc E-MORB affinity from the Chotanagpur Granite Gneiss Complex of India: relicts of a Proterozoic Ophiolite suite
> Geological Magazine
Published: 18 March 2021
by Mukherjee et al . ( 2019 ) marked as Domain I (IA and IB), Domain II and Domain III. The red square box shows the study area. NPSZ – North Purulia Shear Zone; SPSZ – South Purulia Shear Zone. (b) Geological map of the area near Bathani village of the Bathani Volcano sedimentary sequence after M Ahmad
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Search for Placer Gold in Leastern India - A Geomorphological Approach Available to Purchase
Publisher: Geological Society of India
Published: 01 January 1996
Jour. Geol. Soc. India (1996) 47 (1): 99–105.
... India, presence of gold is .common both in alluvial and colluvial zones in a sporadic fashion over wide stretches of Purulia district, West Bengal and adjacent Singhbhum and Ranchi districts, Bihar. Regionally. the area is in between the Tamar - Porapahar shear zone in the north and the Dalma range...
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The South Purulia Shear Zone, eastern India: Its anatomy and implication for timing the Rodinia-age collision in the eastern part of the Central Indian Tectonic Zone Open Access
Journal: Geosphere
Publisher: Geological Society of America
Published: 18 October 2024
Geosphere (2024) 20 (6): 1483–1510.
... box shows location of area examined in this study ( Figs. 2 and 3 ) across contact between CGC and North Singhbhum Mobile Belt (NSMB). In the box in (B), South Purulia Shear Zone (SPSZ) (existing models) is demarcated by black line separating CGC and NSMB. Research in the last decade shows...
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Integrated Gravity-Magnetic Study for Delineation of Structural Guided Uranium Mineralization Zones at Kutni, Purulia, West Bengal Available to Purchase
Publisher: Geological Society of India
Published: 01 March 2015
Jour. Geol. Soc. India (2015) 85 (3): 299–304.
...Animesh Mandal; William K. Mohanty; Shashi Prakash Sharma Abstract The hydrothermally altered vein type uranium mineralization has been reported at different places along the South Purulia Shear Zone (SPSZ) towards 50 km north of the Singhbhum Shear Zone. An integrated close grid gravity-magnetic...
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Delineation of subsurface structures using self-potential, gravity, and resistivity surveys from South Purulia Shear Zone, India: Implication to uranium mineralization Available to Purchase
Journal: Interpretation
Publisher: Society of Exploration Geophysicists
Published: 10 April 2014
Interpretation (2014) 2 (2): T103–T110.
...Arkoprovo Biswas; Animesh Mandal; S. P. Sharma; W. K. Mohanty Abstract The unexplored South Purulia Shear Zone (SPSZ) at the north of Singhbhum Shear Zone (SSZ) in Eastern India is a prospective zone for structural-guided hydrothermal mineralization. We carried out an integrated geophysical study...
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Geochemistry of Paleo to Mesoproterozoic Metasedimentary Units of Chandil Formation, North Singhbhum Crustal Province: Implications for Provenance and Source Area Weathering Available to Purchase
Publisher: Geological Society of India
Published: 01 August 2018
Jour. Geol. Soc. India (2018) 92 (2): 166–172.
... Chhotanagpur granite gneissic complex (CGGC) by Tamar-Porapahar shear zone (TPSZ), i.e. South Purulia shear zone, (SPSZ) at its northern boundary. The metasedimentary unit comprises of quartz-mica-sericite-schist, quartzite, amphibolites and carbonaceous phyllites, which have not been studied well, so far...
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Tectonic Phases and Crustal Evolution in a Part of the Eastern Chotanagpur Gneissic Complex Available to Purchase
Publisher: Geological Society of India
Published: 01 September 1989
Jour. Geol. Soc. India (1989) 34 (3): 318–324.
... caused north-south trending open type cross folds (F 3 ). Pegmatites and hydrothermal veins were mostly synkinematically emplaced in the ENE-WSW trending shear zone developed during the fourth phase of deformation. These features serve to illustrate the evolution of the Chotanagpur Complex in the Eastern...
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(A) Diagram showing differences in tectonic histories in Chottanagpur Gneis... Open Access
in The South Purulia Shear Zone, eastern India: Its anatomy and implication for timing the Rodinia-age collision in the eastern part of the Central Indian Tectonic Zone
> Geosphere
Published: 18 October 2024
of major phases of deformation-metamorphism and magmatic activities. T —temperature. (B) Tectonic cartoon showing two stages of NSMB-CGC collision between 1.02 Ga and 0.91 Ga along South Purulia Shear Zone (see text for details). Note that Rodinia-aged within-plate A-type granites occur exclusively within
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Fluoride Hazard and Risk Enumeration of Hard Rock Unconfined Aquifers in the Extended Part of Chhota Nagpur Gneissic Complex Available to Purchase
Publisher: Geological Society of India
Published: 01 February 2021
Jour. Geol. Soc. India (2021) 97 (2): 199–209.
... and circulation ( Sikdar and Bhattcharya, 2000 ). Relatively the east-west orientation of the two shear zones is prominent below the north Singbhum craton. One is running at the vicinity of the blocks of Raghunathpur, Purulia I, Joypur and Jhalda I and II in the northern part of the district while another one...
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(A) Rodinia reconstruction showing location of Central Indian Tectonic Zone... Open Access
in The South Purulia Shear Zone, eastern India: Its anatomy and implication for timing the Rodinia-age collision in the eastern part of the Central Indian Tectonic Zone
> Geosphere
Published: 18 October 2024
; Rekha et al., 2011 ; Bhattacharya et al., 2019 ; Sequeira and Bhattacharya, 2020 , 2021 ; Sequeira et al., 2020 , 2022 ). Blue box shows location of area examined in this study ( Figs. 2 and 3 ) across contact between CGC and North Singhbhum Mobile Belt (NSMB). In the box in (B), South Purulia
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Delineation of Extension of Uranium Mineralization Zone using Resistivity and Very Low Frequency Electromagnetic Surveys around South Purulia Shear Zone, India Available to Purchase
Publisher: Geological Society of India
Published: 01 December 2014
Jour. Geol. Soc. India (2014) 84 (6): 645–656.
.... Geological study suggests that Beldih phosphate mine lies near the South Purulia Shear Zone (SPSZ). Shear zones in the region are E-W striking elongated zone and associated with uranium mineralization (famous Singhbhum shear zone for several uranium mines). Electrical resistivity (profiling and sounding...
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Geophysical Anomalies Associated with Uranium Mineralization from Beldih Mine, South Purulia Shear Zone, India Available to Purchase
Publisher: Geological Society of India
Published: 01 December 2013
Jour. Geol. Soc. India (2013) 82 (6): 601–606.
... the scope of further integrated geophysical investigations in the unexplored regions of SPSZ. The Atomic Mineral Directorate, Jamshedpur has carried out extensive geological and geochemical surveys across South Purulia Shear Zone (SPSZ) towards the north of Singhbhum Shear Zone (SSZ) and their results...
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