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1. Volcanological and Petrological study of Deccan magmatism in parts of Kachchh, Saurashtra and Mumbai - by Dr. Pooja Kshirsagar

   07 Oct 2013 | Contributor(s):: Pooja Vinod Kshirsagar

   The presentation is an outcome of my Ph.D research work conducted on the lava flows and mafic volcanoclastic deposits of Northwestern Deccan Traps of India, at the Department of Earth Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, India (2009-2013). It emphasize the importance of physical...

2. Mafic alkalic magmatism in central Kachchh, India- a monogenetic volcanic field in the northwestern Deccan Traps

   18 Sep 2013 | Contributor(s):: Pooja Vinod Kshirsagar, Badre Alam shaikh, Hetu Sheth

   Magmatism in Kachchh, in the northwestern Deccan continental flood basalt province, is represented not only by typical tholeiitic flows and dikes, but also plug-like bodies, in Mesozoic sandstone, of alkali basalt, basanite, melanephelinite and nephelinite, containing mantle nodules. They form...