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 …

The supercontinent cycle and Earth's long‐term climate

RD Nance - Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Earth's long‐term climate has been profoundly influenced by the episodic assembly and
breakup of supercontinents at intervals of ca. 500 my This reflects the cycle's impact on …

Primary magmas and mantle temperatures through time

J Ganne, X Feng - Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Chemical composition of mafic magmas is a critical indicator of physicochemical conditions,
such as pressure, temperature, and fluid availability, accompanying melt production in the …

[HTML][HTML] A reconstruction of Iberia accounting for Western Tethys–North Atlantic kinematics since the late-Permian–Triassic

P Angrand, F Mouthereau, E Masini, R Asti - Solid Earth, 2020 - se.copernicus.org
The western European kinematic evolution results from the opening of the western
Neotethys and the Atlantic oceans since the late Paleozoic and the Mesozoic. Geological …

[HTML][HTML] The anti-atlas pan-african belt (Morocco): overview and pending questions

A Soulaimani, H Ouanaimi… - Comptes …, 2018 - comptes-rendus.academie-sciences …
Résumé Between the High Atlas and the Saharan platform, the Anti-Atlas of Morocco offers
large exposures of Precambrian rocks beneath the moderately folded Paleozoic series …

Pannotia: To be or not to be?

RD Nance, DAD Evans, JB Murphy - Earth-Science Reviews, 2022 - Elsevier
Following a decade during which its presence was widely accepted, the existence of the
putative Ediacaran supercontinent Pannotia has come into question since the turn of the …

The Mesozoic Iberia-Eurasia diffuse plate boundary: A wide domain of distributed transtensional deformation progressively focusing along the North Pyrenean Zone

R Asti, N Saspiturry, P Angrand - Earth-Science Reviews, 2022 - Elsevier
Plate kinematic reconstructions available for the Late Jurassic-Early Cretaceous eastward
drift and counterclockwise rotation of the Iberian plate imply a major left-lateral motion of …

Supercontinents and the case for Pannotia

RD Nance, JB Murphy - Geological Society, London, Special …, 2019 - lyellcollection.org
Disagreement about the existence of the late Neoproterozoic supercontinent Pannotia
highlights the limitation of defining supercontinents simply on the basis of size, which, for pre …

Intraplate continental basalts over the past billion years track cooling of the mantle and the onset of modern plate tectonics

Q Chen, H Liu, T Johnson, M Hartnady… - Earth and Planetary …, 2022 - Elsevier
The temperature of the convecting mantle exerts a first-order control on the rheology,
composition, and consequently, tectonic behavior of Earth's lithosphere. Although the mantle …

Cenozoic mountain building and topographic evolution in Western Europe: impact of billions of years of lithosphere evolution and plate kinematics

F Mouthereau, P Angrand… - BSGF-Earth …, 2021 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
The architecture and tectono-magmatic evolution of the lithosphere of Europe are the result
of a succession of subduction, rifting and inputs from plumes that have modified the …