Mesozoic rifting evolution of SW Gondwana: a poly-phased, subduction-related, extensional history responsible for basin formation along the Argentinean Atlantic …

JP Lovecchio, S Rohais, P Joseph, ND Bolatti… - Earth-Science …, 2020 - Elsevier
The opening of the South Atlantic in the Early Cretaceous was the final stage of the complex
rifting history of SW Gondwana. In this contribution we reassess the chronology of Mesozoic …

Conjugate volcanic passive margins in the austral segment of the South Atlantic–Architecture and development

F Chauvet, F Sapin, L Geoffroy, JC Ringenbach… - Earth-Science …, 2021 - Elsevier
The thorough interpretation of the South Atlantic long offset seismic lines provides a new
view of the magmatic and crustal architecture and of the evolution of the conjugate volcanic …

Snowballs in Africa: sectioning a long-lived Neoproterozoic carbonate platform and its bathyal foreslope (NW Namibia)

PF Hoffman, GP Halverson, DP Schrag, JA Higgins… - Earth-Science …, 2021 - Elsevier
Abstract Otavi Group is a 1.5–3.5-km-thick epicontinental marine carbonate succession of
Neoproterozoic age, exposed in an 800-km-long Ediacaran− Cambrian fold belt that rims …

[HTML][HTML] Adamastor–an ocean that never existed?

J Konopásek, C Cavalcante, H Fossen… - Earth-Science …, 2020 - Elsevier
Existing models of tectonic evolution of the Neoproterozoic orogenic system rimming the
shores of the South Atlantic Ocean (the Araçuaí–Ribeira–Congo and Dom Feliciano–Kaoko …

Archean to early Neoproterozoic crustal growth of the southern South American Platform and its wide-reaching “African” origins

M Hueck, S Oriolo, MAS Basei, P Oyhantçabal… - Precambrian …, 2022 - Elsevier
The amalgamation of southwestern Gondwana during the late Neoproterozoic
Brasiliano/Pan-African orogenic cycle involved the tectonic interaction of the Congo …

Anatomy of the transpressional Dom Feliciano Belt and its pre-collisional isotopic (Sr-Nd) signatures: A contribution towards an integrated model for the Brasiliano/Pan …

GB De Toni, M de Fátima Bitencourt, LM Florisbal… - Gondwana …, 2023 - Elsevier
Abstract The Dom Feliciano Belt evolution is reviewed based on cross-sections, space-time
diagrams, PT paths, and Sr-Nd isotopic data of pre-collisional metaigneous rocks. The belt is …

Decratonization by rifting enables orogenic reworking and transcurrent dispersal of old terranes in NE Brazil

CE Ganade, RF Weinberg, FA Caxito, LBL Lopes… - Scientific Reports, 2021 - nature.com
Dispersion and deformation of cratonic fragments within orogens require weakening of the
craton margins in a process of decratonization. The orogenic Borborema Province, in NE …

[HTML][HTML] Relics of ophiolite-bearing accretionary wedges in NE Brazil and NW Africa: connecting threads of western Gondwana´ s ocean during Neoproterozoic times

LCM de Lira Santos, FA Caxito, MH Bouyo… - Geosystems and …, 2023 - Elsevier
Neoproterozoic breakup of Rodinia resulted in the formation of several oceanic realms
between dispersing cratons, which were later consumed during the assembly of Gondwana …

Neoproterozoic magmatic and metamorphic events in the Cuchilla Dionisio Terrane, Uruguay, and possible correlations across the South Atlantic

TM Will, C Gaucher, XX Ling, XH Li, QL Li… - Precambrian …, 2019 - Elsevier
Abstract The Cuchilla Dionisio (or Punta del Este) Terrane of the southern Dom Feliciano
Belt, eastern Uruguay, experienced a prolonged Neoproterozoic to Cambrian …

Reassessing the polyphase neoproterozoic evolution of the Punta del Este terrane, Dom Feliciano Belt, Uruguay

H Silva Lara, S Siegesmund, S Oriolo, M Hueck… - International Journal of …, 2022 - Springer
Some recent models challenge the position and extension of the assumed oceanic basins
formed through the break-up of Rodinia, and the tectonic processes involved in the …