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] 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 …

The supercontinent cycle: a retrospective essay

RD Nance, JB Murphy, M Santosh - Gondwana Research, 2014 - Elsevier
The recognition that Earth history has been punctuated by supercontinents, the assembly
and breakup of which have profoundly influenced the evolution of the geosphere …

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 …

Anatomy of a Cambrian suture in Gondwana: Pacific-type orogeny in southern India?

M Santosh, S Maruyama, K Sato - Gondwana research, 2009 - Elsevier
Southern India occupies a central position in the Late Neoproterozoic–Cambrian Gondwana
supercontinent assembly. The Proterozoic mosaic of southern India comprises a collage of …

An exotic Mesoarchean microcontinent: the Coorg block, southern India

M Santosh, QY Yang, E Shaji, T Tsunogae… - Gondwana …, 2015 - Elsevier
Abstract Sandwiched between the Dharwar Craton in the north and the Neoarchean–
Proterozoic crustal blocks to the south, the Coorg Block in southern India is composed …

Metamorphism and tectonic evolution of the Lhasa terrane, Central Tibet

ZM Zhang, X Dong, M Santosh, GC Zhao - Gondwana Research, 2014 - Elsevier
The Lhasa terrane in southern Tibet is composed of Precambrian crystalline basement,
Paleozoic to Mesozoic sedimentary strata and Paleozoic to Cenozoic magmatic rocks. This …

Neoproterozoic arc magmatism in the southern Madurai block, India: Subduction, relamination, continental outbuilding, and the growth of Gondwana

M Santosh, CN Hu, XF He, SS Li, T Tsunogae… - Gondwana …, 2017 - Elsevier
Abstract The Madurai Block in southern India is a composite collage of at least three sub-
blocks, with Neoarchean–Paleoproterozoic segments in the north and central domains, and …

Delineating crustal domains in Peninsular India: age and chemistry of orthopyroxene-bearing felsic gneisses in the Madurai Block

D Plavsa, AS Collins, JF Foden, L Kropinski… - Precambrian …, 2012 - Elsevier
The Madurai Block of southern India is rich in granitic orthogneiss, much of which is
orthopyroxene-bearing (charnockite). This study has identified that orthogneiss from the …

SHRIMP U–Pb age constraints on magmatism and high-grade metamorphism in the Salem Block, southern India

C Clark, AS Collins, NE Timms, PD Kinny… - Gondwana …, 2009 - Elsevier
In this paper, we present Sensitive High Resolution Ion Microprobe (SHRIMP) U and Pb
isotope analyses of zircon from a charnockite and a charnockite-hosted leucosome in order …