The restless Indian plate and its epic voyage from Gondwana to Asia : its tectonic, paleoclimatic, and paleobiogeographic evolution / by Sankar Chatterjee, Department of Geosciences, Museum of Texas Tech University, Lubbock, Texas, Christopher R. Scotese, PALEOMAP Project, Evanston, Illinois, Sunil Bajpai, Birbal Sahni Institute of Palaeosciences, Lucknow, India.

Author/creator Chatterjee, Sankar author.
Other author Scotese, Christopher R., author.
Other author Bajpai, Sunil, author.
Other author Geological Society of America.
Format Book
PublicationBoulder, Colorado, USA : The Geological Society of America, 2017.
Descriptioniv, 147 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), maps (chiefly color) ; 28 cm.
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Subjects
Plate tectonics--India.
Plate tectonics--Asia.
Paleoclimatology--India.
Paleobiogeography--India.
Gondwana (Continent)

SeriesSpecial paper ; 529
Special papers (Geological Society of America) 529. ^A20279
Contents Abstract -- Introduction -- Principles of paleoclimatology -- Principles of paleobiogeography -- Chronology of the tectonic evolution of the Indian plate -- Terrestrial tetrapod horizons in India -- The Permian period : the beginnings of Gondwana sedimentation -- The Triassic period : Pangean world -- The Jurassic period : time of the giants -- The Cretaceous period -- The Paleocene period -- The Paleocene-Eocene transition : initial collision with Asia -- The making of the Himalayan Mountains and the Tibetan Plateau -- Neogene Siwalik group -- Evolution of Indian summer monsoons -- Conclusions -- Acknowledgments -- References cited.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (pages 137-147).
LCCN 2017017590
ISBN9780813725291 (paperback)
ISBN0813725291 (paperback)