Geodiversity in the Amazon drainage basin

CME Alsbach… - … Transactions of the …, 2024 - royalsocietypublishing.org
The Amazon is the largest drainage basin on Earth and contains a wide variety of abiotic
landscape features. In spite of this, the geodiversity in this basin has not yet been objectively …

The global tectonic context of the ca. 2.27-1.96 Ga Birimian Orogen–Insights from comparative studies, with implications for supercontinent cycles

M Grenholm - Earth-Science Reviews, 2019 - Elsevier
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 …

The role of V-shaped oceans and ribbon continents in the Brasiliano/PanAfrican assembly of western Gondwana

FA Caxito, FF Alkmim - Scientific Reports, 2023 - nature.com
Western Gondwana amalgamated by collision of continental blocks that did not form prior
conjugated margins (extroversion), and by typical Wilson cycles, when continental blocks …

2.09 Ga old eclogites in the Eburnian-Transamazonian orogen of southern Cameroon: significance for Palaeoproterozoic plate tectonics

D Loose, V Schenk - Precambrian Research, 2018 - Elsevier
Lenses of retrogressed eclogites occur in a 100 km wide zone of the Nyong Complex, a
remnant of the Eburnian-Transamazonian orogen, marking a Palaeoproterozoic suture …

How diverse is the source? Age, provenance, reworking, and overprint of Precambrian meta-sedimentary rocks of West Gondwana, Cameroon, from zircon U-Pb …

S Owona, L Ratschbacher, MN Ngapna, AM Gulzar… - Precambrian …, 2021 - Elsevier
Abstract The Nyong Complex and the Yaoundé Group represent two crustal sequences of
West Gondwana in Cameroon. We use U-Pb zircon geochronology on meta-sedimentary …

Eclogite facies metabasites from the Paleoproterozoic Nyong Group, SW Cameroon: mineralogical evidence and implications for a high-pressure metamorphism …

MH Bouyo, J Penaye, H Mouri, SF Toteu - Journal of African Earth Sciences, 2019 - Elsevier
High-to ultrahigh-pressure metamorphic assemblages consisting of garnet-omphacitic
clinopyroxene bearing mafic rocks have been identified within the Paleoproterozoic Nyong …

Rhyacian-Orosirian isotopic records from the basement of the Araçuaí-Ribeira orogenic system (SE Brazil): Links in the Congo-São Francisco palaeocontinent

R Degler, A Pedrosa-Soares, T Novo, M Tedeschi… - Precambrian …, 2018 - Elsevier
Abstract Assembled during the Rhyacian-Orosirian boundary, the Congo-São Francisco
palaeocontinent remained linked by a continental bridge from ca. 2 Ga to the Atlantic Ocean …

Evidence for a complex accretionary history preceding the amalgamation of Columbia: the Rhyacian Minas-Bahia Orogen, southern São Francisco Paleocontinent …

H Bruno, M Heilbron, C de Morisson Valeriano… - Gondwana …, 2021 - Elsevier
Abstract The Minas-Bahia orogeny juxtaposed Archean crustal fragments and
Paleoproterozoic magmatic arcs to form the São Francisco-Congo Paleocontinent by the …

[HTML][HTML] Neoarchean and Rhyacian TTG-Sanukitoid suites in the southern São Francisco Paleocontinent, Brazil: evidence for diachronous change towards modern …

H Bruno, V Elizeu, M Heilbron… - Geoscience …, 2020 - Elsevier
The southern portion of the São Francisco Palaeocontinent in Brazil is denoted by Archean
nuclei and Paleoproterozoic magmatic arcs that were amalgamated during Siderian to …

[HTML][HTML] Depositional age and tectonic environment of the Gouap banded iron formations from the Nyong group, SW Cameroon: Insights from isotopic, geochemical …

LS Tamehe, C Wei, S Ganno, CA Rosière, JP Nzenti… - Geoscience …, 2021 - Elsevier
The discovery of the Gouap banded iron formations (BIFs)-hosted iron mineralization in the
northwestern of the Nyong Group (Ntem Complex) in southwestern Cameroon provides …