The Columbia supercontinent: Retrospective, status, and a statistical assessment of paleomagnetic poles used in reconstructions

JG Meert, M Santosh - Gondwana Research, 2022 - Elsevier
The proposal that a Paleo-Mesoproterozoic supercontinent, Columbia, preceded the
existence of Rodinia was forwarded in 2002. A similar proposal that same year provided a …

[PDF][PDF] Indian plate paleogeography, subduction and horizontal underthrusting below Tibet: Paradoxes, controversies and opportunities

DJJ van Hinsbergen - National Science Review, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Abstract The India–Asia collision zone is the archetype to calibrate geological responses to
continent–continent collision, but hosts a paradox: there is no orogen-wide geological …

50° Post-Eocene clockwise rotation of Mangkang and its implications for the oroclinal bending of the southeastern Tibetan Plateau

W Xu, M Yan, DJJ van Hinsbergen, B Li, C Guan… - Gondwana …, 2024 - Elsevier
The extrusion and clockwise rotation of the southeastern Tibetan Plateau around the
Eastern Himalaya Syntaxis has been playing an important role in accommodating the …

[HTML][HTML] A global apparent polar wander path for the last 320 Ma calculated from site-level paleomagnetic data

B Vaes, DJJ van Hinsbergen… - Earth-Science …, 2023 - Elsevier
Apparent polar wander paths (APWPs) calculated from paleomagnetic data describe the
motion of tectonic plates relative to the Earth's rotation axis through geological time …

A bootstrap common mean direction test

D Heslop, JL Scealy, ATA Wood… - Journal of …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Paleomagnetic statistical inference is underpinned by a family of parametric null hypothesis
tests. In many cases, however, paleomagnetic data do not meet the distributional …

Influence of data filters on the position and precision of paleomagnetic poles: what is the optimal sampling strategy?

D Gerritsen, B Vaes… - Geochemistry …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
To determine a paleopole, the paleomagnetic community commonly applies a loosely
defined set of quantitative data filters that were established for studies of geomagnetic field …

Paleomagnetic rotations in the northeastern Caribbean region reveal major intraplate deformation since the Eocene

L Montheil, M Philippon, P Münch, P Camps… - …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract Relative Caribbean‐North American plate motion is partitioned over the trench and
intra‐Caribbean plate faults that bound large scale tectonic blocks. Quantifying the kinematic …

A new reconstruction of Phanerozoic Earth evolution: Toward a big-data approach to global paleogeography

L Wu, S Pisarevsky, ZX Li, JB Murphy, Y Liu - Tectonophysics, 2024 - Elsevier
Reliable reconstruction of global paleogeography through deep geologic time provides a
key surface boundary condition for investigating many first-order Earth system and …

Paleogeographic reconstructions using QGIS: Introducing Terra Antiqua plugin and its application to 30 and 50 Ma maps

J Aminov, G Dupont-Nivet, D Ruiz, B Gailleton - Earth-Science Reviews, 2023 - Elsevier
Paleogeographic maps play a central integrating role across all the disciplines of the Earth
System Sciences. They increasingly serve as boundary conditions for climate, earth, and life …

Embracing uncertainty to resolve polar wander: A case study of Cenozoic North America

LC Gallo, M Domeier, F Sapienza… - Geophysical …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Our understanding of Earth's paleogeography relies heavily on paleomagnetic apparent
polar wander paths (APWPs), which represent the time‐dependent position of Earth's spin …