Evolution of the East Gondwana convergent margin in Antarctica, southern Australia and New Zealand from the Neoproterozoic to latest Devonian

RA Glen, RA Cooper - Earth-Science Reviews, 2021 - Elsevier
New insights into the Late Precambrian-latest Devonian evolution of the Pacific margin of
Gondwana are obtained by treating the margin in terms of three key tectonic elements: i) the …

Time and isotopic constraints for Early Tonian basaltic magmatism in a large igneous province of the São Francisco–Congo paleocontinent (Macaúbas basin …

ME Souza, M Martins, G Queiroga… - Precambrian …, 2022 - Elsevier
Abstract The Neoproterozoic Macaúbas basin (southeast Brazil) provides key hints to
unravel the history of the São Francisco–Congo paleocontinent before its amalgamation as …

Multi-proxy evidence for subduction of the Neoproterozoic Adamastor Ocean and Wilson cycle tectonics in the South Atlantic Brasiliano Orogenic System of Western …

FA Caxito, LA Hartmann, M Heilbron… - Precambrian …, 2022 - Elsevier
Abstract Field, petrographic, geophysical, geochronological, elemental and isotopic data
support the identification of distinct components of a Wilson cycle (rift-drift-subduction …

Suturing Gondwana in the Cambrian: the orogenic events of the final amalgamation

RS Schmitt, RA Fragoso, AS Collins - Geology of southwest Gondwana, 2018 - Springer
Gondwana was consolidated in the late Cambrian after 180 myr of tectonic convergence
among Neoproterozoic paleocontinents and smaller fragments. We present a compilation of …

The tectonic history of the southern Adamastor Ocean based on a correlation of the Kaoko and Dom Feliciano belts

MAS Basei, HE Frimmel, MC Campos Neto… - Geology of Southwest …, 2018 - Springer
Closure of the southern Adamastor Ocean led to the development of the Neoproterozoic-
Early Cambrian orogens on both margins of the present South Atlantic Ocean, which …

Rhyacian-Orosirian isotopic records from the basement of the Araçuaí-Ribeira orogenic system (SE Brazil): Links in the Congo-São Francisco palaeocontinent

R Degler, A Pedrosa-Soares, T Novo, M Tedeschi… - Precambrian …, 2018 - Elsevier
Abstract Assembled during the Rhyacian-Orosirian boundary, the Congo-São Francisco
palaeocontinent remained linked by a continental bridge from ca. 2 Ga to the Atlantic Ocean …

The Ribeirão da Folha ophiolite-bearing accretionary wedge (Araçuaí orogen, SE Brazil): New data for Cryogenian plagiogranite and metasedimentary rocks

L Amaral, F de Andrade Caxito… - Precambrian …, 2020 - Elsevier
The Araçuaí orogen and West Congo belt make up a singular confined orogenic system,
embraced by the San Francisco–Congo craton: the AWCO. It includes a southern sector with …

[HTML][HTML] A critical discussion of the subduction-collision model for the Neoproterozoic Araçuaí-West Congo orogen

H Fossen, C Cavalcante, J Konopásek, VT Meira… - Precambrian …, 2020 - Elsevier
Abstract The Neoproterozoic Araçuaí-West Congo orogen in Brazil and Congo represents a
branch of the Brasiliano/Pan-African orogenic system that is considered to terminate …

Tectonic evolution of the Juvenile Tonian Serra da Prata magmatic arc in the Ribeira belt, SE Brazil: Implications for early west Gondwana amalgamation

C de Araujo Peixoto, M Heilbron, D Ragatky… - Precambrian …, 2017 - Elsevier
The evolution of the Ribeira belt resulted from the progressive amalgamation of several
terranes against the eastern margin of the São Francisco Craton between ca. 620 and 580 …

Hot versus cold orogenic behavior: Comparing the Araçuaí‐West Congo and the Caledonian orogens

H Fossen, GC Cavalcante, RP de Almeida - Tectonics, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Observations and modeling show that temperature controls crustal rheology and therefore
also the orogenic evolution of continent‐continent collision zones and the associated …