Review of global 2.1–1.8 Ga orogens: implications for a pre-Rodinia supercontinent

G Zhao, PA Cawood, SA Wilde, M Sun - Earth-Science Reviews, 2002 - Elsevier
Available lithostratigraphic, tectonothermal, geochronological and paleomagnetic data from
2.1–1.8 Ga collisional orogens and related cratonic blocks around the world have …

A Paleo-Mesoproterozoic supercontinent: assembly, growth and breakup

G Zhao, M Sun, SA Wilde, S Li - Earth-Science Reviews, 2004 - Elsevier
Geological and paleomagnetic data support the hypothesis that a Paleo-Mesoproterozoic
supercontinent, referred to as Columbia, existed before the formation of Rodinia. This pre …

Evolution of the Australian lithosphere

PG Betts, D Giles, GS Lister, LR Frick - Australian Journal of Earth …, 2002 - Taylor & Francis
The evolution of the Australian plate can be interpreted in a plate‐tectonic paradigm in
which lithospheric growth occurred via vertical and horizontal accretion. The lithospheric …

Did global tectonics drive early biosphere evolution? Carbon isotope record from 2.6 to 1.9 Ga carbonates of Western Australian basins

JF Lindsay, MD Brasier - Precambrian Research, 2002 - Elsevier
The δ13Ccarb record of well preserved carbonates in outcrop and core is here examined
from the 2.6 to 1.9 Ga old basins of Western Australia. These data, which are constrained by …

Palaeoproterozoic crustal accretion and collision in the southern Capricorn Orogen: the Glenburgh Orogeny

SA Occhipinti, S Sheppard, C Passchier, IM Tyler… - Precambrian …, 2004 - Elsevier
The Capricorn Orogen in central Western Australia records the Palaeoproterozoic collision
of the Archaean Pilbara and Yilgarn Cratons. Until recently only one orogenic event was …

Precambrian continental freeboard and geological evolution: a time perspective

PG Eriksson, R Mazumder, O Catuneanu… - Earth-Science …, 2006 - Elsevier
Continental crustal growth rates, crustal volumes/thicknesses, and continental freeboard are
considered to be intimately related; however none are easy to quantify, least of all in the …

Late Paleoproterozoic clockwise P–T history in the Mahakoshal Belt, Central Indian Tectonic zone: implications for Columbia supercontinent assembly

T Deshmukh, N Prabhakar, A Bhattacharya… - Precambrian …, 2017 - Elsevier
Abstract The Paleo/Neoproterozoic Central Indian Tectonic Zone (CITZ) suggested being
continuous with the Capricorn Orogen of Western Australia (COWA) and the Trans North …

Paleoproterozoic basin development on the northern Yilgarn Craton, Western Australia

S Occhipinti, R Hocking, M Lindsay, A Aitken… - Precambrian …, 2017 - Elsevier
A regional tectonic model is presented for the formation and evolution of Paleoproterozoic
basins over the northern Yilgarn Craton, integrating new and published regional geological …

Supersequences, superbasins, supercontinents–evidence from the Neoproterozoic–Early Palaeozoic basins of central Australia

JF Lindsay - Basin Research, 2002 - earthdoc.org
Neoproterozoic sedimentary basins cover a large area of central Australia. They rest upon
rigid continental crust that varies from c. 40–50 km in thickness. Whilst the crust was in part …

Amphibolite facies metamorphism and geochronology of the Paleoproterozoic Aketashitage Orogenic Belt, northwestern China

QWL Zhang, JH Liu, HYC Wang, MY Shi, YC Chen… - Precambrian …, 2019 - Elsevier
Garnet amphibolite and semi-pelitic gneiss preserving three stages of metamorphic mineral
assemblages, ie, the prograde metamorphic inclusion assemblage (M1) preserved in the …