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Mesoproterozoic Eastern Ghat Mobile Belt

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The rugged country with discontinuous hill ranges facing the Bay of Bengal is known as the Eastern Ghat. The average altitude is 610 m, and the tallest peak Mahendragiri is 1501 m high. Extending from Brahmani River in Odisha to Ongole in southeastern Andhra Pradesh, the terrane of highly deformed rocks that experienced ultrahigh-temperature granulite facies metamorphism and several invasions of generations of magmas of varied compositional types is recognized as the Eastern Ghat Mobile Belt.

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Valdiya, K.S. (2016). Mesoproterozoic Eastern Ghat Mobile Belt. In: The Making of India . Society of Earth Scientists Series. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-25029-8_6

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