The Kibaran of southern Africa: tectonic evolution and metallogeny

RJ Thomas, ALD Agenbacht, DH Cornell… - Ore Geology Reviews, 1994 - Elsevier
The tectono-magmatic and metallogenic evolution of the∼ 1100 Ma (Late Kibaran) high-
grade Namaqua-Natal metamorphic belt is reviewed and compared with that of the Grenville …

Reconstructions before rifting and drifting reveal the geological connections between Antarctica and its conjugates in Gondwanaland

JJ Veevers - Earth-Science Reviews, 2012 - Elsevier
The initial (200–175Ma) breakup of Pangea was marked by the emplacement of the Large
Igneous Provinces (LIPs) of Karoo–Ferrar-SE Australia (KFS) in the back-arc of …

[HTML][HTML] The lithospheric architecture of Africa: Seismic tomography, mantle petrology, and tectonic evolution

GC Begg, WL Griffin, LM Natapov… - …, 2009 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
We present a new analysis of the lithospheric architecture of Africa, and its evolution from ca.
3.6 Ga to the present. Upper-lithosphere domains, generated or reworked in different time …

[書籍][B] Continents and supercontinents

JJW Rogers, M Santosh - 2004 - books.google.com
To this day, there is a great amount of controversy about where, when and how the so-called
supercontinents--Pangea, Godwana, Rodinia, and Columbia--were made and broken …

The Kalahari Craton during the assembly and dispersal of Rodinia

J Jacobs, S Pisarevsky, RJ Thomas, T Becker - Precambrian Research, 2008 - Elsevier
In this paper, we review the dimensions, geometry and architecture of the components of the
Kalahari Craton and the various positions this important crustal block could have occupied …

Laurentia-Kalahari collision and the assembly of Rodinia

IWD Dalziel, S Mosher… - The Journal of …, 2000 - journals.uchicago.edu
Abstract The Llano Orogenic Belt along the present southern margin of Laurentia, regarded
as continuation of the Grenvillian Orogen along the eastern Laurentian margin and exposed …

Proterozoic geochronology and tectonic evolution of southern Africa

RE Hanson - Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 2003 - lyellcollection.org
The Precambrian foundation of southern Africa consists of Archaean cratonic nuclei
surrounded by belts formed during three separate Proterozoic orogenic episodes. Crust that …

African, southern Indian and South American cratons were not part of the Rodinia supercontinent: evidence from field relationships and geochronology

A Kröner, U Cordani - Tectonophysics, 2003 - Elsevier
We discuss the question whether the late Mesoproterozoic and early Neoproterozoic rocks
of eastern, central and southern Africa, Madagascar, southern India, Sri Lanka and South …

Geochronology and geochemistry of Grenvillian igneous suites in the northern Oaxacan Complex, southern Mexico: tectonic implications

JD Keppie, J Dostal, KL Cameron, LA Solari… - Precambrian …, 2003 - Elsevier
Chemical and U–Pb isotopic analyses of metaigneous rocks in the northern Oaxacan
Complex in southern Mexico indicate that they form part of two granitic–gabbroic suites …

The history of granulite-facies metamorphism and crustal growth from single zircon U–Pb geochronology: Namaqualand, South Africa

LJ Robb, RA Armstrong, DJ Waters - Journal of Petrology, 1999 - academic.oup.com
Abstract The Namaqualand Metamorphic Complex is a well-exposed, Mesoproterozoic, low-
pressure, amphibolite–granulite-facies terrane flanking the Archaean Kaapvaal Craton of …