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Substantiation of Réunion plume induced prolonged magmatic pulses (ca. 70.5–65.5 Ma) of the Deccan LIP in the Chhotanagpur Gneissic Complex, eastern India: Constraints from 40Ar/39Ar geochronology

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This study presents 40Ar/39Ar geochronology on the mafic dykes emplaced in the Damodar valley Gondwana sedimentary basins of the Chhotanagpur Gneissic Complex (CGC) to authenticate prolonged mafic magmatic activities during Maastrichtian period. A couple of earlier and one new 40Ar/39Ar plateau ages, which range in age from ca. 70.5 to 65.5 Ma, suggest prolonged (~5 myr) magmatic activities in the CGC. These syn- and pre-Deccan LIP magmatic intrusive activities in the CGC are supposedly related to the Réunion mantle plume. The reported age of 70.5 ± 0.9 Ma of a NE-trending mafic dyke emplaced within the Raniganj basin could probably be the earliest record of the Réunion mantle plume activity in the Indian shield. A number of other early magmatic rocks, related to the Réunion mantle plume induced Deccan LIP event, are also recorded elsewhere in the Indian shield and supportive of prolonged magmatic activities. Finally, this study also provides a better constraint on the initiation and lateral extent of the Réunion mantle plume induced Deccan LIP.

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RKS thanks the Science and Engineering Research Board (SERB) for the financial support through a research project (No. EMR/2016/000169), and the Head, Department of Geology, Banaras Hindu University, for extending all necessary facilities required during this work. Authors are grateful to J P Shrivastava and the anonymous reviewer for providing constructive comments and suggestions which have improved the manuscript considerably.

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  2. State Key Laboratory of Lithospheric Evolution, Institute of Geology and Geophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, P.R. China

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  3. CAS Centre for Excellence in Tibetan Plateau Earth Sciences, Beijing, 100 101, P.R. China

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  4. College of Earth and Planetary Sciences, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100 049, P.R. China

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Srivastava, R.K., Wang, F. & Shi, W. Substantiation of Réunion plume induced prolonged magmatic pulses (ca. 70.5–65.5 Ma) of the Deccan LIP in the Chhotanagpur Gneissic Complex, eastern India: Constraints from 40Ar/39Ar geochronology. J Earth Syst Sci 129, 96 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12040-020-1364-6

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