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 …

[HTML][HTML] Orogen styles in the East African Orogen: A review of the Neoproterozoic to Cambrian tectonic evolution

H Fritz, M Abdelsalam, KA Ali, B Bingen… - Journal of African Earth …, 2013 - Elsevier
Abstract The East African Orogen, extending from southern Israel, Sinai and Jordan in the
north to Mozambique and Madagascar in the south, is the world́s largest Neoproterozoic to …

Reassessment of continental growth during the accretionary history of the Central Asian Orogenic Belt

A Kröner, V Kovach, E Belousova, E Hegner… - Gondwana …, 2014 - Elsevier
We argue that the production of mantle-derived or juvenile continental crust during the
accretionary history of the Central Asian Orogenic Belt (CAOB) has been grossly …

On ferroan (A-type) granitoids: their compositional variability and modes of origin

CD Frost, BR Frost - Journal of petrology, 2011 - academic.oup.com
We recognize eight types of ferroan granitoid that can be distinguished on the basis of major
element chemistry. These include alkalic granitoids that may be metaluminous or …

Late Cryogenian–Ediacaran history of the Arabian–Nubian Shield: a review of depositional, plutonic, structural, and tectonic events in the closing stages of the …

PR Johnson, A Andresen, AS Collins, AR Fowler… - Journal of African Earth …, 2011 - Elsevier
During the late Cryogenian–Ediacaran (650–542Ma), the Arabian–Nubian Shield (ANS)
underwent final assembly and accretion to the Saharan Metacraton concurrent with the …

Continental lithosphere of the Arabian Plate: a geologic, petrologic, and geophysical synthesis

RJ Stern, P Johnson - Earth-Science Reviews, 2010 - Elsevier
The Arabian Plate originated∼ 25Ma ago by rifting of NE Africa to form the Gulf of Aden and
Red Sea. It is one of the smaller and younger of the Earth's lithospheric plates. The upper …

Detrital zircon provenance of Neoproterozoic to Cenozoic deposits in Iran: Implications for chronostratigraphy and collisional tectonics

BK Horton, J Hassanzadeh, DF Stockli, GJ Axen… - Tectonophysics, 2008 - Elsevier
Ion-microprobe U–Pb analyses of 589 detrital zircon grains from 14 sandstones of the Alborz
mountains, Zagros mountains, and central Iranian plateau provide an initial framework for …

On the occurrence, trace element geochemistry, and crystallization history of zircon from in situ ocean lithosphere

CB Grimes, BE John, MJ Cheadle, FK Mazdab… - … to Mineralogy and …, 2009 - Springer
We characterize the textural and geochemical features of ocean crustal zircon recovered
from plagiogranite, evolved gabbro, and metamorphosed ultramafic host-rocks collected …

Origin and evolution of post-collisional magmatism: coeval Neoproterozoic calc-alkaline and alkaline suites of the Sinai Peninsula

M Eyal, B Litvinovsky, BM Jahn, A Zanvilevich, Y Katzir - Chemical Geology, 2010 - Elsevier
Two Late Neoproterozoic post-collisional igneous suites, calc-alkaline (CA) and alkaline–
peralkaline (Alk), widely occur in the northernmost part of the Arabian–Nubian Shield. In …

How juvenile is the Arabian–Nubian Shield? Evidence from Nd isotopes and pre-Neoproterozoic inherited zircon in the Bi'r Umq suture zone, Saudi Arabia

US Hargrove, RJ Stern, JI Kimura, WI Manton… - Earth and Planetary …, 2006 - Elsevier
The Bi'r Umq suture zone (BUSZ) in western Saudi Arabia comprises Neoproterozoic
oceanic-arc plutonic, volcanosedimentary, and ophiolitic rocks that record some of the …