A review of tectonic events in the East Antarctic Shield and their implications for Gondwana and earlier supercontinents

ICW Fitzsimons - Journal of African Earth Sciences, 2000 - Elsevier
Late Neoproterozoic to Cambrian tectonism in East Antarctica was widely assumed to have
been restricted to the Ross Orogen at the Pal˦ opacific margin of the Precambrian shield …

The timing and duration of the Delamerian Orogeny: correlation with the Ross Orogen and implications for Gondwana assembly

J Foden, MA Elburg… - The Journal of …, 2006 - journals.uchicago.edu
Abstract The Antarctic Ross and the Australian Delamerian orogenies are the consequence
of stress transfer to the outboard trailing edge of the newly assembled Gondwana …

Terminal suturing of Gondwana and the onset of the Ross–Delamerian Orogeny: the cause and effect of an Early Cambrian reconfiguration of plate motions

SD Boger, JML Miller - Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 2004 - Elsevier
A review of U–Pb age data from intrusive and volcanic rocks for Antarctica and Australia has
highlighted the remarkable synchronicity in the shift from passive margin or continental arc …

Provenance of Neoproterozoic and lower Paleozoic siliciclastic rocks of the central Ross orogen, Antarctica: Detrital record of rift-, passive-, and active-margin …

JW Goodge, IS Williams… - Geological Society of …, 2004 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
Siliciclastic rocks in the Transantarctic Mountains record the tectonic transformation from a
Neoproterozoic rift-margin setting to a passive-margin and ultimately to an active early …

Exotic crustal block accretion to the eastern Gondwanaland margin in the Late Cambrian–Tasmania, the Selwyn Block, and implications for the Cambrian–Silurian …

RA Cayley - Gondwana Research, 2011 - Elsevier
Reconstructions of the Cambrian–Silurian tectonic evolution of eastern Gondwanaland,
when the Australian Tasmanides and Antarctic Ross Orogen developed, rely on correlation …

Changing magmatic and tectonic styles along the paleo‐Pacific margin of Gondwana and the onset of early Paleozoic magmatism in Antarctica

J Encarnación, A Grunow - Tectonics, 1996 - Wiley Online Library
Basement rocks of the Transantarctic Mountains are believed to record a change in the
paleo‐Pacific margin of Gondwana from a passive to a tectonically active margin …

U–Pb evidence of∼ 1.7 Ga crustal tectonism during the Nimrod Orogeny in the Transantarctic Mountains, Antarctica: implications for Proterozoic plate reconstructions

JW Goodge, CM Fanning, VC Bennett - Precambrian Research, 2001 - Elsevier
The Pacific margin of East Antarctica records a long tectonic history of crustal growth and
breakup, culminating in the early Paleozoic Ross Orogeny associated with Gondwanaland …

Cambro-Ordovician magmatism in the Delamerian orogeny: Implications for tectonic development of the southern Gondwanan margin

J Foden, M Elburg, S Turner, C Clark, ML Blades… - Gondwana …, 2020 - Elsevier
Abstract The Delamerian Orogen formed at the final stages of assembly of the Gondwana
supercontinent. This system marks the initiation of subduction of the Pacific oceanic …

Mesoarchean and Paleoproterozoic history of the Nimrod Complex, central Transantarctic Mountains, Antarctica: Stratigraphic revisions and relation to the Mawson …

JW Goodge, CM Fanning - Precambrian Research, 2016 - Elsevier
High-grade metamorphic and igneous rocks originally mapped as the Nimrod Group
represent the only known crystalline basement of the East Antarctic shield exposed in the …

Temporal, isotopic and spatial relations of early Paleozoic Gondwana-margin arc magmatism, central Transantarctic Mountains, Antarctica

JW Goodge, CM Fanning, MD Norman… - Journal of …, 2012 - academic.oup.com
Abstract The Cambrian–Ordovician Ross Orogeny in Antarctica produced a voluminous
magmatic belt composed mainly of post-orogenic granitoids. This magmatic belt has strong …