January 1994
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Singhbhum-North Orissa region constitutes one of the six major provinces of the Indian shield. In this region, intensive structural, stratigraphic, petrologic, geochemical and geochronologic studies were carried out along modern lines by a large number of earth scientists since the fifties. One major finding based on these studies has been that the region contains a remarkably well-preserved early continental nucleus whose crustal growth was virtually complete by 3.0 Ga. This monograph endeavours to compile the available information on structure, stratigraphy, petrology, geochemistry, geochronology and relevant geophysical data into a regional synthesis of the Precambrian geological history and crustal evolution. -from Author