Phanerozoic polar wander, palaeogeography and dynamics

TH Torsvik, R Van der Voo, U Preeden… - Earth-Science …, 2012 - Elsevier
A significant number of new palaeomagnetic poles have become available since the last
time a compilation was made (assembled in 2005, published in 2008) to indicate to us that a …

Granitoid events in space and time: constraints from igneous and detrital zircon age spectra

KC Condie, E Belousova, WL Griffin, KN Sircombe - Gondwana Research, 2009 - Elsevier
The goal of this study is to evaluate the global age distribution of granitoid magmatism and
juvenile continental crust production with U/Pb isotopic ages from igneous and detrital …

[HTML][HTML] Toward an integrated model of geological evolution for NE Brazil-NW Africa: The Borborema Province and its connections to the Trans-Saharan (Benino …

FA Caxito, LCML Santos, CE Ganade… - Brazilian Journal of …, 2020 - SciELO Brasil
Abstract Both the Borborema Province of NE Brazil and the geological provinces of NW
Africa (the Trans-Saharan Orogen consisted of the Tuareg and Benino-Nigerian shields and …

The earliest Cambrian record of animals and ocean geochemical change

AC Maloof, SM Porter, JL Moore, FÖ Dudás… - …, 2010 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
The Cambrian diversification of animals was long thought to have begun with an explosive
phase at the start of the Tommotian Age. Recent stratigraphic discoveries, however, suggest …

Reconstructing pre-Pangean supercontinents

DAD Evans - Bulletin, 2013 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
Twenty-five years ago, initial plans for reconstructing the Rodinia supercontinent were being
drafted, based on the growing recognition of correlatable mid-Neoproterozoic (0.8–0.7 Ga) …

The Río de la Plata craton and the assembly of SW Gondwana

CW Rapela, RJ Pankhurst, C Casquet… - Earth-Science …, 2007 - Elsevier
The extent and nature of the Archaean–Palaeoproterozoic craton of Río de la Plata of
southern South America, a major but poorly understood crustal component in …

The palaeomagnetically viable, long-lived and all-inclusive Rodinia supercontinent reconstruction

DAD Evans - Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 2009 - lyellcollection.org
Palaeomagnetic apparent polar wander (APW) paths from the world's cratons at 1300–700
Ma can constrain the palaeogeographic possibilities for a long-lived and all-inclusive …

A Damara orogen perspective on the assembly of southwestern Gondwana

DR Gray, DA Foster, JG Meert… - Geological Society …, 2008 - lyellcollection.org
Abstract The Pan-African Damara orogenic system records Gondwana amalgamation
involving serial suturing of the Congo–São Francisco and Río de la Plata cratons (North …

Proterozoic accretionary belts in the Amazonian Craton

UG Cordani, W Teixeira - 2007 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
Within the Amazonian Craton, Archean crust is restricted to the Carajás granite-greenstone
terrain. The younger Maroni-Itacaiunas province, including supra-crustal sequences and …

The position of the Amazonian Craton in supercontinents

UG Cordani, W Teixeira, MS D'Agrella-Filho… - Gondwana …, 2009 - Elsevier
This paper examines the extensive regions of Proterozoic accretionary belts that either
formed most of the Amazonian Craton, or are marginal to its southeastern border. Their …