More References About Geology of “World's Biggest Impact Crater” (??) Region

Paul bristolia at yahoo.com
Sat Oct 17 15:50:03 EDT 2009

In addition to papers list at:
http://six.pairlist.net/pipermail/meteorite-list/2009-October/057487.html and
http://six.pairlist.net/pipermail/meteorite-list/2009-October/057488.html
there many more references about the geology of the Bombay High region of the western Indian continental shelf where the so-called “World's Biggest Impact Crater” / "Shiva impact crater" lies tobe found.

They include:

Biswas S K 1982 Rift basins in the western margin of India and their hydrocarbon prospects; American Association of Petroleum Geologists Bulletin. vol. 66, no. 10, pp. 1497-1513.

Biswas S K 1987 Regional tectonic framework, structure and evolution of the western margin basins of India.Tectonophysics, vol. 135, issue 4, pp. 307-327

Biswas, S. K., M. K. Rangaraju, J. Thomas, and S. K. Bhattacharya, 1994, Cambay- Hazad(!) Petroleum System in the South Cambay Basin, India: Chapter 37: Part VI. Case Studies--Eastern Hemisphere. In L. B. Magoon and W. G. Dow, eds., pp. 615-624. Memoir 60,
American Association of Petroleum Geologists, Tulsa, Oklahoma.

Duncan, R.A., 1990, The volcanic record of the Reunion Hotspot, Proceedings of the ODP, Sciences Results. vol 115, pp. 3–9.

http://www-odp.tamu.edu/publications/115_SR/VOLUME/CHAPTERS/sr115_01.pdf

The above publications shows paleogeographic reconstructions.

Sharma, K. K., 2007, "Cretaceous-Tertiary Tectono-Magmatism in the NW Indian shield: A fragmenting continent."

http://www.mantleplumes.org/NWIndia.html
http://www.mantleplumes.org/WebpagePDFs/NWIndia.pdf

Todal, A., and O. Edholm, 1998, ontinental margin off Western India and Deccan Large Igneous Province. Marine Geophysical Researches. vol. 20, no. 4, pp. 273-291

http://www.springerlink.com/content/g7l126p314673055/

There are a huge number of references listed at the above URL.

The unbroken URL to:

Chatterjee, S., N. Guven, A. Yoshinobu, and P. Donofrio, 2006, Shiva Structure: a possible KT boundary impact crater on the western shelf of India.Special Publications, Museum Texas Tech University. no. 50. is:

http://www.depts.ttu.edu/gesc/Fac_pages/Yoshinobu/Published_pdfs/Chatterjee%20et%20al.%202006.pdf

The link to it can be found on Dr. 's publications page at:

http://www.depts.ttu.edu/gesc/Fac_pages/Yoshinobu/Yosh_publications.html

Yours,

Paul H.