The Iceland microcontinent and a continental Greenland-Iceland-Faroe ridge

GR Foulger, T Doré, CH Emeleus, D Franke… - Earth-Science …, 2020 - Elsevier
The breakup of Laurasia to form the Northeast Atlantic Realm disintegrated an
inhomogeneous collage of cratons sutured by cross-cutting orogens. Volcanic rifted margins …

The evolution of western Scandinavian topography: a review of Neogene uplift versus the ICE (isostasy–climate–erosion) hypothesis

SB Nielsen, K Gallagher, C Leighton, N Balling… - Journal of …, 2009 - Elsevier
Tectonics and erosion are the driving forces in the evolution of mountain belts, but the
identification of their relative contributions remains a fundamental scientific problem in …

The Scandinavian Caledonides: event chronology, palaeogeographic settings and likely modern analogues

D Roberts - Tectonophysics, 2003 - Elsevier
Following an outline of Scandinavian Caledonide tectonostratigraphy, tracing the
Neoproterozoic, Baltoscandian, passive margin of Baltica outboard into the suspect, Iapetus …

郯庐断裂带的平移运动与成因

朱光, 刘国生, 牛漫兰, 宋传中, 王道轩 - 地质通报, 2003 - dzhtb.cgs.cn
在华北, 华南板块碰撞期间, 郯庐断裂带究竟是何种边界仍是没有解决的重大地学问题,
许多学者对此提出了不同的构造解释模式. 关于郯庐断裂的平移距离仍存在着较大的分歧与有待 …

Slab breakoff: a model for Caledonian, Late Granite syn-collisional magmatism in the orthotectonic (metamorphic) zone of Scotland and Donegal, Ireland

MP Atherton, AA Ghani - Lithos, 2002 - Elsevier
None of the existing models for calc-alkaline “Late Granite”(Siluro–Devonian) genesis in the
metamorphic Caledonian orogenic belt of Ireland and Scotland fully explains their spatial …

A structural synthesis of the Proterozoic Arabian-Nubian Shield in Egypt

RO Greiling, MM Abdeen, AA Dardir, H El Akhal… - Geologische …, 1994 - Springer
Detailed structural geological and related studies were carried out in a number of critical
areas in the Proterozoic basement of eastern Egypt to resolve the structural pattern at a …

Neoproterozoic—Early Paleozoic evolution of peri-Gondwanan terranes: implications for Laurentia-Gondwana connections

JB Murphy, SA Pisarevsky, RD Nance… - International Journal of …, 2004 - Springer
Neoproterozoic tectonics is dominated by the amalgamation of the supercontinent Rodinia
at ca. 1.0 Ga, its breakup at ca. 0.75 Ga, and the collision between East and West …

Late Palaeozoic structural development of the south-western Barents Sea

ST Gudlaugsson, JI Faleide, SE Johansen… - Marine and Petroleum …, 1998 - Elsevier
A regional grid of multichannel seismic reflection profiles records the Late Palaeozoic
structure and tectonic development of the south-western Barents Sea. A 300 km wide rift …

A Cordilleran model for the evolution of Avalonia

RD Nance, JB Murphy, JD Keppie - Tectonophysics, 2002 - Elsevier
Striking similarities between the late Mesoproterozoic–Early Paleozoic record of Avalonia
and the Late Paleozoic–Cenozoic history of western North America suggest that the North …

Changing Silurian–Devonian relative plate motion in the Caledonides: sinistral transpression to sinistral transtension

JF Dewey, RA Strachan - Journal of the Geological Society, 2003 - lyellcollection.org
The late Silurian to mid-or late Devonian interval in the Caledonides was a period
dominated, sequentially, by sinistral transpression, strike-slip and transtension during the …