The role of break-up localization in microcontinent separation along a strike-slip margin: the East India–Elan Bank case study

• Main Authors: Sudipta Tapan Sinha, Michal Nemčok, Mainak Choudhuri, Neeraj Sinha, D. Pundarika Rao
• Format: Other Non-Article Part of Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: 2016
• Subjects: Geology; Elan Bank microcontinent release; Elan Bank; East India; Krishna; portion; dextral Coromandel transfer fault zone; Elan Bank margins document; Elan Bank microcontinent; Cauvery Rift Zone; Antarc*; Antarctica
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.3454067.v1; https://figshare.com/articles/The_role_of_break-up_localization_in_microcontinent_separation_along_a_strike-slip_margin_the_East_India_Elan_Bank_case_study/3454067

The Elan Bank microcontinent was separated from East India during the Early Cretaceous break-up. The crustal architecture and rifting geometry of East India and the Elan Bank margins document that the early break-up between India and Antarctica was initiated in the eastern portions of the Cauvery an...