Extending full-plate tectonic models into deep time: Linking the Neoproterozoic and the Phanerozoic

AS Merdith, SE Williams, AS Collins, MG Tetley… - Earth-Science …, 2021 - Elsevier
Recent progress in plate tectonic reconstructions has seen models move beyond the
classical idea of continental drift by attempting to reconstruct the full evolving configuration of …

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] 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 …

Metacraton: nature, genesis and behavior

JP Liégeois, MG Abdelsalam, N Ennih, A Ouabadi - Gondwana Research, 2013 - Elsevier
In this paper, we show with examples that cratons involved in intercontinental collisions in a
lower plate position are often affected by orogenic events, leading to the transformation of …

Sands of West Gondwana: An archive of secular magmatism and plate interactions—A case study from the Cambro-Ordovician section of the Tassili Ouan Ahaggar …

U Linnemann, K Ouzegane, A Drareni, M Hofmann… - Lithos, 2011 - Elsevier
Enormous masses of highly mature quartz sands were deposited in Western Gondwana
during the Cambrian–Ordovician time, and provide a wide range of information concerning …

Coupled U–Pb–Hf of detrital zircons of Cambrian sandstones from Morocco and Sardinia: implications for provenance and Precambrian crustal evolution of North …

D Avigad, A Gerdes, N Morag, T Bechstädt - Gondwana Research, 2012 - Elsevier
U–Pb–Hf of detrital zircons from diverse Cambrian units in Morocco and Sardinia were
investigated in order to clarify the sandstone provenance and how it evolved with time, to …

Provenance of Neoproterozoic and early Paleozoic siliciclastic rocks of the Teplá-Barrandian unit (Bohemian Massif): evidence from U–Pb detrital zircon ages

K Drost, A Gerdes, T Jeffries, U Linnemann… - Gondwana …, 2011 - Elsevier
New LA-ICP-MS U–Pb detrital zircon ages from Ediacaran and Paleozoic siliciclastic rocks
are used to constrain provenance and paleogeographic affinities of the Teplá-Barrandian …

A reconsideration of Pan African orogenic cycle in the Anti-Atlas Mountains, Morocco

K Hefferan, A Soulaimani, SD Samson… - Journal of African Earth …, 2014 - Elsevier
For over 50 years the Pan African orogeny has been recognized as a Neoproterozoic
tectonothermal episode affecting West Africa 800–550 Ma. As such, the Pan African events …

A new synthetic geological map of the Tuareg Shield: an overview of its global structure and geological evolution

JP Liégeois - The Geology of the Arab World---An Overview, 2019 - Springer
Here is presented a geological map of the Tuareg Shield (Algeria, Mali, Niger), based on the
various available geological maps, which are often old and uneasily available, and on the …

Ediacaran to Lower Ordovician age for rocks ascribed to the Schist–Graywacke Complex (Iberian Massif, Spain): Evidence from detrital zircon SHRIMP U–Pb …

C Talavera, P Montero, DM Poyatos, IS Williams - Gondwana Research, 2012 - Elsevier
New SHRIMP U–Pb ages of detrital zircon obtained from eight samples of Neoproterozoic to
Lower Paleozoic graywackes, schists, microconglomerates and shales provide the …