Indian Basins getting older

Last month a new paper by my research group was published online (Precambrian Research). The paper will appear in print on July 30,2008.

We have been working in the Vindhyan Basin (one of a half-dozen or so "Purana" basins) in north-central India. These Purana basins were assumed to be Neoproterozoic in age, but we think that the new ages for the Vindhyan have a lot to say about life on earth and the evolution of the Indian subcontinent. National Geographic did a decent job of writing this up.