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The Western Ghats escarpment in the western coastal region of peninsular India is locally capped by plateau remnants on which a regional high-level laterite carapace is preserved. Geochemical “fingerprinting” studies show that the laterite has been developed from a protolith of Panhala Formation basalts, the youngest known formation of the Deccan sequence. The high-level laterite is in detail structurally...