Evolution of the Rheic ocean

RD Nance, G Gutiérrez-Alonso, JD Keppie… - Gondwana …, 2010 - Elsevier
The Rheic Ocean, which separated Laurussia from Gondwana following the closure of
Iapetus, is arguably the most important ocean of the Palaeozoic. Its suture extends from …

Gondwanaland from 650–500 Ma assembly through 320 Ma merger in Pangea to 185–100 Ma breakup: supercontinental tectonics via stratigraphy and radiometric …

JJ Veevers - Earth-Science Reviews, 2004 - Elsevier
Gondwanaland lasted from the 650–500 Ma (late Neoproterozoic-Cambrian) amalgamation
of African and South American terranes to Antarctica–Australia–India through 320 Ma (mid …

The Cadomian Orogeny and the opening of the Rheic Ocean: the diacrony of geotectonic processes constrained by LA-ICP-MS U–Pb zircon dating (Ossa-Morena and …

U Linnemann, F Pereira, TE Jeffries, K Drost, A Gerdes - Tectonophysics, 2008 - Elsevier
Cadomian orogenic processes and their continuum to the opening of the Rheic Ocean were
modeled by making use of new LA-ICP-MS U–Pb ages from detrital zircons of sedimentary …

Gondwana-derived microcontinents—the constituents of the Variscan and Alpine collisional orogens

JF von Raumer, GM Stampfli, F Bussy - Tectonophysics, 2003 - Elsevier
The European Variscan and Alpine mountain chains are collisional orogens, and are built
up of pre-Variscan “building blocks” which, in most cases, originated at the Gondwana …

Greater Avalonia—latest Ediacaran–Ordovician “peribaltic” terrane bounded by continental margin prisms (“Ganderia,” Harlech Dome, Meguma): review, tectonic …

E Landing, JD Keppie, DF Keppie, G Geyer… - Earth-Science …, 2022 - Elsevier
Abstract Distinctive uppermost Ediacaran–Ordovician rocks (Avalonian overstep sequence)
were key in definition of Avalonia, which comprises large areas of the NE Appalachians and …

Origin of the Rheic Ocean: Rifting along a Neoproterozoic suture?

JB Murphy, G Gutierrez-Alonso, RD Nance… - …, 2006 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
Abstract The Rheic Ocean is widely believed to have formed in the Late Cambrian–Early
Ordovician as a result of the drift of peri-Gondwanan terranes, such as Avalonia and …

West African provenance for Saxo-Thuringia (Bohemian Massif): did Armorica ever leave pre-Pangean Gondwana?–U/Pb-SHRIMP zircon evidence and the Nd …

U Linnemann, NJ McNaughton, RL Romer… - International Journal of …, 2004 - Springer
Neoproterozoic rocks in the Saxo-Thuringian part of Armorica formed in an active margin
setting and were overprinted during Cadomian orogenic processes at the northern margin of …

Neoproterozoic-early Palaeozoic tectonostratigraphy and palaeogeography of the peri-Gondwanan terranes: Amazonian v. West African connections

RD Nance, JB Murphy, RA Strachan… - Geological Society …, 2008 - lyellcollection.org
Abstract Within the Appalachian–Variscan orogen of North America and southern Europe lie
a collection of terranes that were distributed along the northern margin of West Gondwana in …

Neoproterozoic—Early Paleozoic evolution of peri-Gondwanan terranes: implications for Laurentia-Gondwana connections

JB Murphy, SA Pisarevsky, RD Nance… - International Journal of …, 2004 - Springer
Neoproterozoic tectonics is dominated by the amalgamation of the supercontinent Rodinia
at ca. 1.0 Ga, its breakup at ca. 0.75 Ga, and the collision between East and West …

A Cordilleran model for the evolution of Avalonia

RD Nance, JB Murphy, JD Keppie - Tectonophysics, 2002 - Elsevier
Striking similarities between the late Mesoproterozoic–Early Paleozoic record of Avalonia
and the Late Paleozoic–Cenozoic history of western North America suggest that the North …