The architecture and mechanics of an orogen can be understood in terms of a system of
collages that are characterized by a complex assemblage of multiple components, but the …

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 making of Pangea is the result of large-scale amalgamation of continents and micro-
continents, which started at the end of the Neoproterozoic with the formation of Gondwana …

The Arabian Plate originated∼ 25Ma ago by rifting of NE Africa to form the Gulf of Aden and
Red Sea. It is one of the smaller and younger of the Earth's lithospheric plates. The upper …

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 …

The Pacific Ocean formed through Neoproterozoic rifting of Rodinia and despite a long
history of plate convergence, this ocean has never subsequently closed. The record of …

The Rheic Ocean was one of the most important oceans of the Paleozoic Era. It lay between
Laurentia and Gondwana from the Early Ordovician and closed to produce the vast Ouachita …

Gondwana, though extant for approximately one-half billion years, is now present as
fragments across much of the globe. Following an assembly during the latest Protero zoic …

Ion-microprobe U–Pb analyses of 589 detrital zircon grains from 14 sandstones of the Alborz
mountains, Zagros mountains, and central Iranian plateau provide an initial framework for …

Palaeomagnetic apparent polar wander (APW) paths from the world's cratons at 1300–700
Ma can constrain the palaeogeographic possibilities for a long-lived and all-inclusive …