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 …

Early Paleozoic accretionary orogenies in NW Argentina: growth of West Gondwana

RF Weinberg, R Becchio, P Farias, N Suzaño… - Earth-Science …, 2018 - Elsevier
Abstract Two Early Paleozoic orogenic cycles in the Gondwana margin of NW Argentina
were driven by subduction, and interrupted by collision of continental ribbons of Laurentian …

The upper mantle beneath the South Atlantic Ocean, South America and Africa from waveform tomography with massive data sets

NL Celli, S Lebedev, AJ Schaeffer… - Geophysical Journal …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
We present a tomographic model of the crust, upper mantle and transition zone beneath the
South Atlantic, South America and Africa. Taking advantage of the recent growth in …

The South American retroarc foreland system: the development of the Bauru Basin in the back-bulge province

MC Menegazzo, O Catuneanu, HK Chang - Marine and Petroleum Geology, 2016 - Elsevier
The aim of this research is to understand the tectonic setting of the Bauru Basin. This basin
in central-eastern South America has been classified as intracratonic, but the basin-fill …

Abrupt structural deformation changes from the boundary to the interior of a craton basin: Implications for the long-term stability of cratonic blocks

L Huang, C Liu, Z Wang, Y Zhou… - … Society of America …, 2024 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
Stable intraplate cratonic blocks usually have less structural deformation and fewer
earthquakes than other locations on Earth, but with strong compressional deformation …

[HTML][HTML] The Mesozoic West and central Africa Rift System (WCARS) and the older Kandi Shear zone (KSZ): Rifting and tectonics of North Africa and South America …

JD Fairhead - Journal of African Earth Sciences, 2023 - Elsevier
Intra-and trans-continental tectonic lineaments and tectonic structures cutting Africa and
Gondwana have long been identified by many authors. These structures were initially …

Western Paraná suture/shear zone and the limits of Rio Apa, Rio Tebicuary and Rio de la Plata cratons from gravity data

GN Dragone, N Ussami, ME Gimenez, FGL Klinger… - Precambrian …, 2017 - Elsevier
We present a new gravity map between 45°–70° W and 5°–40° S integrating open source
terrestrial gravity data of Argentina with the South American Gravity Model 2004 (SAGM04) …

Maximizing geothermal prospects: Unveiling Paraná Basin's potential through advanced GIS and Multicriteria Decision Analysis (MCDA)

MCO Caldeira, RM Baldez, AP Tais de Paula… - Geothermics, 2024 - Elsevier
Geothermal energy is now clearly an important option for the Brazilian energy grid due to the
demand for renewable energy sources. The northern and central regions of the Paraná …

New perspectives on the tectonic evolution of the eastern Paraguay Belt revealed through zircon U-Pb-Hf-O systematics of the inner units

GL Frugis, MCC Neto, A Westin, CM Fanning - Precambrian Research, 2024 - Elsevier
Abstract The Paraguay Belt and Brasília Orogen, the western and eastern segments of the
Tocantins Province, respectively, recorded the interactions among the Amazonian, São …

Gravity-magnetic appraisal of the southern part of the Cauvery Basin, Eastern Continental Margin of India (ECMI): evidence of a volcanic rifted margin

SS Ganguli, SK Pal - Frontiers in Earth Science, 2023 - frontiersin.org
The Cauvery sedimentary basin of India, a part of the Eastern Continental Margin of India
(ECMI), has evolved as a consequence of its breakup from East Antarctica in the early …