Phanerozoic paleotemperatures: The earth's changing climate during the last 540 million years

CR Scotese, H Song, BJW Mills, DG van der Meer - Earth-Science Reviews, 2021 - Elsevier
This study provides a comprehensive and quantitative estimate of how global temperatures
have changed during the last 540 million years. It combines paleotemperature …

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 …

Tectonic architecture and multiple orogeny of the Qinling Orogenic Belt, Central China

Y Dong, M Santosh - Gondwana Research, 2016 - Elsevier
Abstract The Qinling Orogenic Belt (QOB) is located between the North China and South
China Blocks, and has been considered to have formed by the collision between these …

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 …

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 …

A Neoproterozoic snowball earth

PF Hoffman, AJ Kaufman, GP Halverson, DP Schrag - science, 1998 - science.org
Negative carbon isotope anomalies in carbonate rocks bracketing Neoproterozoic glacial
deposits in Namibia, combined with estimates of thermal subsidence history, suggest that …

Arc assembly and continental collision in the Neoproterozoic African Orogen: implications for the consolidation of Gondwanaland

RJ Stern - Annual Review Of Earth And Planetary Sciences …, 1994 - adsabs.harvard.edu
Some of the most important, rapid, and enigmatic changes in our Earth's environment and
biota occurred during the Neoproterozoic Era (1000–540 million years ago; Ma). Paramount …

Paleogeographic maps of the Japanese Islands: Plate tectonic synthesis from 750 Ma to the present

S Maruyama, Y Isozaki, G Kimura, M Terabayashi - Island arc, 1997 - Wiley Online Library
A series of paleogeographic maps of the Japanese Islands, from their birth at ca 750–700
Ma to the present, is newly compiled from the viewpoint of plate tectonics. This series …

A Paleo-Mesoproterozoic supercontinent: assembly, growth and breakup

G Zhao, M Sun, SA Wilde, S Li - Earth-Science Reviews, 2004 - Elsevier
Geological and paleomagnetic data support the hypothesis that a Paleo-Mesoproterozoic
supercontinent, referred to as Columbia, existed before the formation of Rodinia. This pre …

The geologic time scale

FM Gradstein, JG Ogg, MD Schmitz, GM Ogg - Boston, USA, 2012 - books.google.com
Construction and assembly of the Geologic Time Scale involves:(a) constructing a relative
(chronostratigraphic) standard scale for key periods in the Earth's rock record;(b) identifying …