Electron microprobe dating of monazites from an ultrahigh-temperature granulite in Southern India: Implications for the timing of Gondwana assembly

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We report here monazite geochronology on a newly discovered high pressure (HP) and ultrahigh-temperature (UHT) granulite locality at Thoppur within the Palghat-Cauvery Shear Zone system in southern India. In situ dating of monazites associated with the UHT minerals using electron probe technique yielded PbO vs. ThO2* apparent isochron age of 544 ± 5 Ma. This is the first study from southern India where older monazite cores or complex age patterns are virtually absent, and all the monazite population in the studied samples crystallized/recrystallized during a single thermal maximum which we correlate with the timing of extreme crustal metamorphism during the final assembly of the Gondwana supercontinent.

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  • CRID
    1390282681522453376
  • NII Article ID
    10020736965
  • NII Book ID
    AA11460926
  • DOI
    10.2465/jmps.070528b
  • ISSN
    13493825
    13456296
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    en
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