Characterization and evolution of primary and secondary laterites in northwestern Bengal Basin, West Bengal, India

It is quite impossible to travel far in India without observing the remarkable ferruginous crust to which Buchanan in 1807 gave the name of laterite. In Indian peninsula, it is a post-Cretaceous stratigraphic succession with a polycyclic nature of evolution which marks the unconformity with recent Q...

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Main Authors: Sandipan Ghosh, Sanat K. Guchhait
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2015-04-01
Series:Journal of Palaeogeography
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Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2095383615300195