An appraisal of mineral systems associated with Precambrian Large Igneous Provinces of the Indian Shield

Paleomagnetic results from the Singhbhum Craton, India: Remagnetization, demagnetization, and complication

Geochemical, Sr-Nd isotopic and U-Pb zircon study of 1.88 Ga gabbro-wehrlite from north-eastern Singhbhum Craton, India: Vestiges of Precambrian oceanic crust?

Petrogenesis of Neoarchean (2.80–2.75 Ga) Jagannathpur volcanics and the Ghatgaon and Keshargaria dyke swarms, Singhbhum craton, eastern India: Geochemical, SrNd isotopic and SmNd geochronologic constraints for interaction of enriched-DMM derived magma with metasomatised subcontinental lithospheric mantle

Secular evolution of the subcontinental lithospheric mantle beneath Indian cratons: Insights from geochemistry and geochronology of the Precambrian mafic dykes

The mafic dyke swarm, newer dolerite dykes (NDDs) intrudes the Archaean Singbhum granite of the Singhbhum craton, eastern India. The present investigation focuses on the petrography and geochemistry of 19 NNE–SSW to NE–SW trending NDDs in two sectors in the northern and south-western part of Bahalda town, Odisha, Singhbhum. Chondrite normalised rare earth element (REE) patterns show light REE (LREE) enrichment among majority of the 13 dykes while the remaining six dykes show a flat REE pattern. Critical analyses of some important trace element ratios like Ba/La, La/Sm, Nb/Y, Ba/Y, Sm/La, Th/La, La/Sm, Nb/Zr, Th/Zr, Hf/Sm, Ta/La and Gd/Yb indicate that the dolerite dykes originated from a heterogeneous spinel peridotite mantle source which was modified by fluids and melts in an arc/back arc setting. REE modelling of these dolerite dykes were attempted on LREE-enriched representative of NDD which shows that these dykes might have been generated by 5–25% partial melting of a modified spinel peridotite source which subsequently suffered around 30% fractional crystallisation of olivine, orthopyroxene and clinopyroxene. The reported age of ~2.75–2.8 Ma seems to be applicable for these dykes and this magmatism appears to be contemporaneous with major scale anorogenic granitic activity in the Singhbhum craton marking a major event of magmatic activity in eastern India.

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Geochemical characterisation of the Neoarchaean newer dolerite dykes of the Bahalda region, Singhbhum craton, Odisha, India: Implication for petrogenesis

Piyali Dasgupta

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Geochemical characterisation of the Neoarchaean newer dolerite dykes of the Bahalda region, Singhbhum craton, Odisha, India: Implication for petrogenesis