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 …

Amalgamating eastern Gondwana: the evolution of the Circum-Indian Orogens

AS Collins, SA Pisarevsky - Earth-Science Reviews, 2005 - Elsevier
The Neoproterozoic global reorganisation that saw the demise of Rodinia and the
amalgamation of Gondwana took place during an incredibly dynamic period of Earth …

A Cenozoic record of deep oceanic Zn isotopic composition in ferromanganese crusts

M Zhao, N Planavsky, X Wang, Y Zhang… - American Journal of …, 2023 - ajsonline.org
Water plays a critical role in erosion and sediment transport and this relationship is most
evident in the hyperarid Atacama Desert of Northern Chile, a region characterized by …

Opening Iapetus: constraints from the Laurentian margin in Newfoundland

PA Cawood, PJA McCausland… - Geological Society of …, 2001 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
Abstract Late Neoproterozoic to Early Cambrian geologic, geochronologic, and
paleomagnetic data from along the Iapetus margin of Laurentia may be reconciled within a …

Large igneous provinces (LIPs) and carbonatites

RE Ernst, K Bell - Mineralogy and Petrology, 2010 - Springer
There is increasing evidence that many carbonatites are linked both spatially and temporally
with large igneous provinces (LIPs), ie high volume, short duration, intraplate-type …

Neoproterozoic—Early Paleozoic evolution of peri-Gondwanan terranes: implications for Laurentia-Gondwana connections

JB Murphy, SA Pisarevsky, RD Nance… - International Journal of …, 2004 - Springer
Neoproterozoic tectonics is dominated by the amalgamation of the supercontinent Rodinia
at ca. 1.0 Ga, its breakup at ca. 0.75 Ga, and the collision between East and West …

[HTML][HTML] On the origins of the Iapetus Ocean

B Robert, M Domeier, J Jakob - Earth-Science Reviews, 2021 - Elsevier
Abstract The Iapetus Ocean opened during the fission of the supercontinent Rodinia, from
the breakup of three of its core continental constituents: Laurentia, Baltica and Amazonia …

The use of trace elements in apatite to trace differentiation of a ferrobasaltic melt in the Sept-Iles Intrusive Suite, Quebec, Canada: Implications for provenance …

MA Kieffer, SAS Dare, O Namur - Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 2023 - Elsevier
Abstract The Sept Iles Intrusive Suite, Quebec, Canada, comprises one of the world's largest
mafic layered intrusions. It is a natural laboratory to study differentiation processes of a …

The break-up of Rodinia, birth of Gondwana, true polar wander and the snowball Earth

PF Hoffman - Journal of African Earth Sciences, 1999 - Elsevier
A major global plate reorganisation occurred between∼ 750 and∼ 550 Ma. Gondwana was
assembled following the dispersal of Rodinia, a supercontinent centred on Laurentia in …

True polar wander and supercontinents

DAD Evans - Tectonophysics, 2003 - Elsevier
I present a general model for true polar wander (TPW), in the context of supercontinents and
simple modes of mantle convection. Old, mantle-stationary supercontinents shield their …