The geological history of northwestern South America: from Pangaea to the early collision of the Caribbean Large Igneous Province (290–75 Ma)

R Spikings, R Cochrane, D Villagomez… - Gondwana …, 2015 - Elsevier
Abstract Northwestern South America preserves a record of the assembly of western
Pangaea, its disassembly and initiation of the far western Tethys Wilson Cycle, subsequent …

Timing and tempo of the Great Oxidation Event

AP Gumsley, KR Chamberlain… - Proceedings of the …, 2017 - National Acad Sciences
The first significant buildup in atmospheric oxygen, the Great Oxidation Event (GOE), began
in the early Paleoproterozoic in association with global glaciations and continued until the …

The magnificent seven: A proposal for modest revision of the quality index

JG Meert, AF Pivarunas, DAD Evans, SA Pisarevsky… - Tectonophysics, 2020 - Elsevier
Abstract Thirty years ago, Rob Van der Voo proposed an elegant and simple system for
evaluating the quality of paleomagnetic data. As a second-year Ph. D. student, the lead …

Current applications using key mineral phases in igneous and metamorphic geology: perspectives for the future

S Volante, E Blereau, M Guitreau… - Geological Society …, 2024 - lyellcollection.org
The study of magmatic and metamorphic processes is challenged by geological
complexities like geochemical variations, geochronological uncertainties and the …

Large Igneous Provinces and supercontinents: Toward completing the plate tectonic revolution

RE Ernst, W Bleeker, U Söderlund, AC Kerr - Lithos, 2013 - Elsevier
Regional groupings of a majority, or all, of Earth's crustal blocks have occurred several times
in Earth history, but only the most recent supercontinent Paleozoic Pangea/Gondwana, is …

Long-lived connection between southern Siberia and northern Laurentia in the Proterozoic

RE Ernst, MA Hamilton, U Söderlund, JA Hanes… - Nature …, 2016 - nature.com
Abstract Precambrian supercontinents Nuna-Columbia (1.7 to 1.3 billion years ago) and
Rodinia (1.1 to 0.7 billion years ago) have been proposed. However, the arrangements of …

Geochronology of layered intrusions

JS Scoates, CJ Wall - Layered intrusions, 2015 - Springer
Layered intrusions crystallize mainly from basaltic magma to form large bodies of igneous
rocks that exhibit prominent layering and they preserve stunning rock records of the …

Solving the Martian meteorite age conundrum using micro-baddeleyite and launch-generated zircon

DE Moser, KR Chamberlain, KT Tait, AK Schmitt… - Nature, 2013 - nature.com
Invaluable records of planetary dynamics and evolution can be recovered from the
geochemical systematics of single meteorites. However, the interpreted ages of the ejected …

A shallow-burial mineralization model for the unconformity-related uranium deposits in the Athabasca Basin

G Chi, Z Li, H Chu, KM Bethune… - Economic …, 2018 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
The unconformity-related U deposits associated with the Proterozoic Athabasca Basin are
among the largest and richest U deposits in the world. The conventional genetic model …

Petrography, fluid inclusion analysis, and geochronology of the End uranium deposit, Kiggavik, Nunavut, Canada

G Chi, T Haid, D Quirt, M Fayek, N Blamey, H Chu - Mineralium Deposita, 2017 - Springer
The End deposit is one of several uranium deposits in the Kiggavik area near the
Proterozoic Thelon Basin, which is geologically similar to the Athabasca Basin known for its …