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] Linking collisional and accretionary orogens during Rodinia assembly and breakup: Implications for models of supercontinent cycles

PA Cawood, RA Strachan, SA Pisarevsky… - Earth and Planetary …, 2016 - Elsevier
Periodic assembly and dispersal of continental fragments has been a characteristic of the
solid Earth for much of its history. Geodynamic drivers of this cyclic activity are inferred to be …

Detrital zircon record and tectonic setting

PA Cawood, CJ Hawkesworth, B Dhuime - Geology, 2012 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
Detrital zircon spectra reflect the tectonic setting of the basin in which they are deposited.
Convergent plate margins are characterized by a large proportion of zircon ages close to the …

[PDF][PDF] Rollback, scissor-like closure of the Mongol-Okhotsk Ocean and formation of an orocline: Magmatic migration based on a large archive of age data

T Wang, Y Tong, W **ao, L Guo… - National Science …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Tracing the closure of oceans with irregular margins and the formation of an orocline are
crucial for understanding plate reconstruction and continental assembly. The eastern …

Assembly and breakup of the core of Paleoproterozoic–Mesoproterozoic supercontinent Nuna

DAD Evans, RN Mitchell - Geology, 2011 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
Idealized conceptual models of supercontinent cyclicity must be tested against the geologic
record using pre-Pangean reconstructions. We integrate tectonostratigraphic records and …

Paleomagnetic constraints on the duration of the Australia-Laurentia connection in the core of the Nuna supercontinent

U Kirscher, RN Mitchell, Y Liu, AR Nordsvan… - …, 2021 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
Abstract The Australia-Laurentia connection in the Paleoproterozoic to Mesoproterozoic
supercontinent Nuna is thought to have initiated by ca. 1.6 Ga when both continents were …

[HTML][HTML] A geochronological review of magmatism along the external margin of Columbia and in the Grenville-age orogens forming the core of Rodinia

Å Johansson, B Bingen, H Huhma, T Waight… - Precambrian …, 2022 - Elsevier
A total of 4344 magmatic U-Pb ages in the range 2300 to 800 Ma have been compiled from
the Great Proterozoic Accretionary Orogen along the margin of the Columbia/Nuna …

Reconstructing pre-Pangean supercontinents

DAD Evans - Bulletin, 2013 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
Twenty-five years ago, initial plans for reconstructing the Rodinia supercontinent were being
drafted, based on the growing recognition of correlatable mid-Neoproterozoic (0.8–0.7 Ga) …

Geochronological, geochemical and Nd–Hf–Os isotopic fingerprinting of an early Neoproterozoic arc–back-arc system in South China and its accretionary assembly …

Y Wang, A Zhang, PA Cawood, W Fan, J Xu… - Precambrian …, 2013 - Elsevier
U–Pb geochronology along with elemental and Nd–Hf–Os isotopic data from the earliest
Neoproterozoic metabasic rocks within the Cathaysia Block of the South China Block (SCB) …