Abstract
There are marked similarities in between laterites of India and Australia because these continents have moved from polar to tropical palaeolatitudes over the past 80 million years. On the basis of palaeolatitudes and laterite magnetizations, the favourable optimum climate of laterite formation was prevailed in India from Late Cretaceous to Late Tertiary. Consequently, the laterites in the northern peninsula should be older than those in the south as per drifting of the Indian plate. In this chapter, the age determination, span of lateritization event, and dating data analysis are included to draw significant information about the geochronology of laterites.
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Ghosh, S., Guchhait, S.K. (2020). Geochronology of Laterites. In: Laterites of the Bengal Basin. SpringerBriefs in Geography. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-22937-5_7
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