Background Botanists, ecologists and evolutionary biologists are familiar with the
astonishing species richness and endemism of the fynbos of the Cape Floristic Region and …

Diamond is not a common rock-forming mineral (an exception being “diamondite”; see
Jacob and Mikhail 2022, this volume) nor a common crustal mineral (the exceptions being …

The São Francisco craton in eastern Brazil hosts sedimentary sequences deposited
between the Paleoarchean (∼ 3300 Ma) and Late Neoproterozoic (∼ 580 Ma). Proterozoic …

The U–Pb data from the volcanic and detrital zircon grains of the Tombador Formation in
Chapada Diamantina, Bahia, provide the depositional age of the top of this unit and define …

The intracratonic São Francisco basin covers almost the whole NS-trending lobe of the São
Francisco craton, encompassing multiple and superimposed basin-cycles younger than 1.8 …

In an attempt to better understand the tectonic evolution of the continental crust forming SW
Angola, zircon grains from the principal Precambrian rock types exposed in the Lubango …

Africa's four major Proterozoic shields were tectonically separated from one-another within
the late Meso-to early Neo-Proterozoic Rodinia supercontinent along Rodinian mobile belts …

The objective of this article is to examine the available evidence of intra-plate tectonic
episodes of “Grenvillian-type age”, affecting the South-American continent, assessing their …

The Paramirim aulacogen occupies the region of the northern São Francisco craton that
extends from the northern Espinhaço range to a large plateau known as the Chapada …

The evolution of orogenic systems is a function of their overall tectonic context, and global
reconstructions therefore provide a crucial framework for understanding the geodynamic …