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The northward drifting India experienced crustal extension during the Late Triassic to Early Cretaceous period due to India moving and rotating away from Australia and Antarctica and attendant transformation along the Coromandal coast.
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Valdiya, K.S. (2016). Pericratonic Basins: The Mesozoic Scenario. In: The Making of India . Society of Earth Scientists Series. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-25029-8_15
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