Deconstructing South China and consequences for reconstructing Nuna and Rodinia

PA Cawood, W Wang, T Zhao, Y Xu, JA Mulder… - Earth-Science …, 2020 - Elsevier
Contrasting models for internal and external locations of South China within the Nuna and
Rodinia supercontinents can be resolved when the current lithotectonic associations of …

[HTML][HTML] Orogen styles in the East African Orogen: A review of the Neoproterozoic to Cambrian tectonic evolution

H Fritz, M Abdelsalam, KA Ali, B Bingen… - Journal of African Earth …, 2013 - Elsevier
Abstract The East African Orogen, extending from southern Israel, Sinai and Jordan in the
north to Mozambique and Madagascar in the south, is the world́s largest Neoproterozoic to …

Assembly, configuration, and break-up history of Rodinia: a synthesis

ZX Li, SV Bogdanova, AS Collins, A Davidson… - Precambrian …, 2008 - Elsevier
This paper presents a brief synthesis of the current state of knowledge on the formation and
break-up of the early-Neoproterozoic supercontinent Rodinia, and the subsequent assembly …

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 …

Linking accretionary orogenesis with supercontinent assembly

PA Cawood, C Buchan - Earth-Science Reviews, 2007 - Elsevier
Age relations for assembly of Gondwana and Pangea indicate that the timing of collisional
orogenesis between amalgamating continental bodies was synchronous with subduction …

Peninsular India in Gondwana: The tectonothermal evolution of the Southern Granulite Terrain and its Gondwanan counterparts

AS Collins, C Clark, D Plavsa - Gondwana Research, 2014 - Elsevier
Peninsular India forms a keystone in Gondwana, linking the East African and Malagasy
orogens with Ediacaran–Cambrian orogenic belts in Sri Lanka and the Lützow Holm Bay …

Extraordinary transport and mixing of sediment across Himalayan central Gondwana during the Cambrian–Ordovician

PM Myrow, NC Hughes, JW Goodge… - …, 2010 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
Detrital zircon samples from Cambrian and Lower to Middle Ordovician strata were taken
across and along the strike of the Himalaya from Pakistan to Bhutan (∼ 2000 km). By …

Detrital zircon provenance of Neoproterozoic to Cenozoic deposits in Iran: Implications for chronostratigraphy and collisional tectonics

BK Horton, J Hassanzadeh, DF Stockli, GJ Axen… - Tectonophysics, 2008 - Elsevier
Ion-microprobe U–Pb analyses of 589 detrital zircon grains from 14 sandstones of the Alborz
mountains, Zagros mountains, and central Iranian plateau provide an initial framework for …

New insights into peri-Gondwana paleogeography and the Gondwana super-fan system from detrital zircon U–Pb ages

G Meinhold, AC Morton, D Avigad - Gondwana Research, 2013 - Elsevier
We present a synopsis of detrital zircon U–Pb ages of sandstones from North Africa and
neighboring Israel and Jordan, which allows us to identify zones with characteristic sediment …

U–Pb geochronology of basement rocks in central Tibet and paleogeographic implications

J Guynn, P Kapp, GE Gehrels, L Ding - Journal of Asian Earth Sciences, 2012 - Elsevier
The ages and paleogeographic affinities of basement rocks of Tibetan terranes are poorly
known. New U–Pb zircon geochronologic data from orthogneisses of the Amdo basement …