[HTML][HTML] A dynamic 2000—540 Ma Earth history: From cratonic amalgamation to the age of supercontinent cycle

ZX Li, Y Liu, R Ernst - Earth-Science Reviews, 2023 - Elsevier
Establishing how tectonic plates have moved since deep time is essential for understanding
how Earth's geodynamic system has evolved and operates, thus answering longstanding …

Plate tectonics and the Archean Earth

M Brown, T Johnson, NJ Gardiner - Annual Review of Earth and …, 2020 - annualreviews.org
If we accept that a critical condition for plate tectonics is the creation and maintenance of a
global network of narrow boundaries separating multiple plates, then to argue for plate …

A full-plate global reconstruction of the Neoproterozoic

AS Merdith, AS Collins, SE Williams, S Pisarevsky… - Gondwana …, 2017 - Elsevier
Neoproterozoic tectonic geography was dominated by the formation of the supercontinent
Rodinia, its break-up and the subsequent amalgamation of Gondwana. The Neoproterozoic …

Secular change in metamorphism and the onset of global plate tectonics

M Brown, T Johnson - American Mineralogist, 2018 - degruyter.com
On the contemporary Earth, distinct plate tectonic settings are characterized by differences in
heat flow that are recorded in metamorphic rocks as differences in apparent thermal …

How Large Igneous Provinces affect global climate, sometimes cause mass extinctions, and represent natural markers in the geological record

RE Ernst, N Youbi - Palaeogeography, palaeoclimatology, palaeoecology, 2017 - Elsevier
Abstract Large Igneous Provinces (LIPs) can have a significant global climatic effect as
monitored by sedimentary trace and isotopic compositions that record paleo …

[HTML][HTML] Linking collisional and accretionary orogens during Rodinia assembly and breakup: Implications for models of supercontinent cycles

PA Cawood, RA Strachan, SA Pisarevsky… - Earth and Planetary …, 2016 - Elsevier
Periodic assembly and dispersal of continental fragments has been a characteristic of the
solid Earth for much of its history. Geodynamic drivers of this cyclic activity are inferred to be …

Continental flood basalt weathering as a trigger for Neoproterozoic Snowball Earth

GM Cox, GP Halverson, RK Stevenson… - Earth and Planetary …, 2016 - Elsevier
Atmospheric CO 2 levels and global climate are regulated on geological timescales by the
silicate weathering feedback. However, this thermostat has failed multiple times in Earth's …

Continental flood basalts drive Phanerozoic extinctions

T Green, PR Renne, CB Keller - Proceedings of the …, 2022 - National Acad Sciences
Refinements of the geological timescale driven by the increasing precision and accuracy of
radiometric dating have revealed an apparent correlation between large igneous provinces …

[HTML][HTML] A geochronological review of magmatism along the external margin of Columbia and in the Grenville-age orogens forming the core of Rodinia

Å Johansson, B Bingen, H Huhma, T Waight… - Precambrian …, 2022 - Elsevier
A total of 4344 magmatic U-Pb ages in the range 2300 to 800 Ma have been compiled from
the Great Proterozoic Accretionary Orogen along the margin of the Columbia/Nuna …

Large igneous provinces and silicic large igneous provinces: Progress in our understanding over the last 25 years

SE Bryan, L Ferrari - GSA Bulletin, 2013 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
Large igneous provinces are exceptional intraplate igneous events throughout Earth's
history. Their significance and potential global impact are related to the total volume of …