Geology of Karnataka

amphibolite Ancient Supracrustals Arabian sea Archaean Archaean nucleus Bababudan Group Badami Bangalore basaltic basement basin beds Belgaum Bhima black soils Bruce Foote carbonate Cauvery charnockite chert Chitradurga Closepet granite coastal colour conglomerate continental crust crustal Deccan Trap deformation deposited Dharwar craton Dharwar type district dolomite dykes earth east environment erosion evolution extensive facies felsite flows fossils Geol geological gneisses gneissic complex granite granulite greenstone belts greywacke Gulbarga intrusion iron formation Jour Kaladgi Karnataka Kolar schist belt Krishna laterite lava limestone m.y. ago mafic magmatic major margin metamorphism Mysore Plateau NAQVI nataka older gneisses Peninsular gneiss Peninsular India Plate plutons porphyritic Precambrian Proterozoic quartz quartzite RADHAKRISHNA Ramakrishnan region ridges river Sandur Sargur schistose rocks sedimentary sediments sequence shale Shimoga south India southern stratigraphic stromatolites structures surface tectonic tion ultramafic unconformity uplift volcanic west coast Western Ghats younger granites