Ediacaran-Ordovician tectonic and geodynamic drivers of Great Unconformity exhumation on the southern Canadian Shield

BA Peak, RM Flowers, FA Macdonald - Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 2023 - Elsevier
Abstract The Great Unconformity erosion surface between Paleozoic sedimentary rocks and
Archean-Proterozoic basement has been related to erosion occurring during Snowball Earth …

Neoproterozoic of laurentia

FA Macdonald, WA Yonkee, RM Flowers… - 2023 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
Neoproterozoic to Cambrian isolation of Laurentia during the breakup of Rodinia was
associated with multiple large igneous provinces, protracted multiphase rifting, and variable …

Detrital zircon U–Pb and Hf signatures of Paleo-Mesoproterozoic strata in the Priest River region, northwestern USA: A record of Laurentia assembly and Nuna tenure

DT Brennan, JB Mahoney, ZX Li, PK Link… - Precambrian …, 2021 - Elsevier
Abstract Rocks of the Gold Cup Quartzite, Belt Supergroup and Deer Trail Group crop out in
the Priest River region of northeastern Washington and northern Idaho (USA). As these …

A trans-Iapetus transform fault control for the evolution of the Rheic Ocean: Implications for an early Paleozoic transition of accretionary tectonics

L Wu, JB Murphy, WJ Collins, JWF Waldron… - …, 2022 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
The Paleozoic era begins with the final assembly of Gondwana and ends with the
amalgamation of the supercontinent Pangea. Although this tectonic progression is generally …

The Laramide orogeny: Current understanding of the structural style, timing, and spatial distribution of the classic foreland thick-skinned tectonic system

AB Weil, A Yonkee - 2023 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
The Laramide foreland belt comprises a broad region of thick-skinned, contractional
deformation characterized by an anastomosing network of basement-cored arches and …

Neoproterozoic to early Paleozoic tectono-stratigraphic framework for central Idaho: Windermere Supergroup in the northern sector of the US Cordillera

DT Brennan, DM Pearson, PK Link, J Milton - 2023 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
ABSTRACT The Windermere Supergroup in southern British Columbia and its correlatives
(such as the Pocatello Formation and lower Brigham Group in southeastern Idaho) along the …

[HTML][HTML] The Real McCoy: Great Unconformity source-to-sink on the rifted passive margin of Laurentia

ESC Anttila, FA Macdonald, J Zinto, MD Britt - Earth and Planetary Science …, 2024 - Elsevier
Abstract The Great Unconformity separates Archean and Proterozoic basement rocks from
overlying Paleozoic sedimentary strata. Hypotheses for the formation of the Great …

Macrostratigraphy of the Ediacaran system in North America

DC Segessenman, SE Peters - 2023 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
Ediacaran sediments record the termination of Cryogenian “snowball Earth” glaciations,
preserve the first occurrences of macroscopic metazoans, and contain one of the largest …

Covering the Great Unconformity in southern Laurentia during Rodinia breakup: Detrital zircon studies of provenance evolution during Cambrian marine transgression …

JR Kyle, DF Stockli, EF McBride, BA Elliott - Bulletin, 2023 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
Abstract The Llano Uplift in central Texas, USA, exposes the southernmost expanse of
Laurentian crystalline basement in North America and the overlying lower Paleozoic strata …

Source‐to‐sink tandem geochronology reveals tectonic influences on the Cambrian Transcontinental Arch of Laurentia

ME Holland, M Mohr, M Schmitz, L Madronich… - Terra …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Competing hypotheses attribute the regional loss of 1.2–1.0 Ga detrital zircon from the
Cambrian Sauk Sequence in southwestern North America to differing tectonic controls on …