The granite greenstone associations and intrusive granitoids of Dharwar Craton in southern peninsular India comprise a vast section of Meso-Neoarchean continental crust and range in age from 3.4 to 2.5 Ga (Swami Nath and Ramakrishnan, 1981, Naqvi and Rogers, 1987, Naqvi, 2005, Ramakrishnan and Vaidyanadhan, 2010, Jayananda et al., 2006, Jayananda et al., 2013a, Jayananda et al., 2013b, Yang et ...