Extending full-plate tectonic models into deep time: Linking the Neoproterozoic and the Phanerozoic

AS Merdith, SE Williams, AS Collins, MG Tetley… - Earth-Science …, 2021 - Elsevier
Recent progress in plate tectonic reconstructions has seen models move beyond the
classical idea of continental drift by attempting to reconstruct the full evolving configuration of …

Central China orogenic belt and amalgamation of East Asian continents

Y Dong, S Sun, M Santosh, J Zhao, J Sun, D He… - Gondwana …, 2021 - Elsevier
Abstract The Central China Orogenic Belt (CCOB) comprises, from the east to the west, the
Tongbai-Dabie, Qinling, Qilian and Kunlun Orogens, and preserves abundant and important …

Geological reconstructions of the East Asian blocks: From the breakup of Rodinia to the assembly of Pangea

G Zhao, Y Wang, B Huang, Y Dong, S Li, G Zhang… - Earth-Science …, 2018 - Elsevier
Pangea is the youngest supercontinent in Earth's history and its main body formed by
assembly of Gondwana and Laurasia about 300–250 Ma ago. As supported by voluminous …

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 …

Oceanic oxygenation events in the anoxic Ediacaran ocean

SK Sahoo, NJ Planavsky, G Jiang, B Kendall… - …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
The ocean‐atmosphere system is typically envisioned to have gone through a unidirectional
oxygenation with significant oxygen increases in the earliest (ca. 635 Ma), middle (ca. 580 …

Decoding Earth's rhythms: Modulation of supercontinent cycles by longer superocean episodes

ZX Li, RN Mitchell, CJ Spencer, R Ernst… - Precambrian …, 2019 - Elsevier
The supercontinent cycle of episodic assembly and breakup of almost all continents on
Earth is commonly considered the longest period variation to affect mantle convection …

Massive formation of early diagenetic dolomite in the Ediacaran ocean: Constraints on the “dolomite problem”

B Chang, C Li, D Liu, I Foster, A Tripati… - Proceedings of the …, 2020 - National Acad Sciences
Paleozoic and Precambrian sedimentary successions frequently contain massive
dolomicrite [CaMg (CO3) 2] units despite kinetic inhibitions to nucleation and precipitation of …

Fragmentation of South China from greater India during the Rodinia-Gondwana transition

W Wang, PA Cawood, MK Pandit, X **a… - …, 2021 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
Abstract Late Tonian to Cambrian sedimentary sequences in northwestern India and South
China provide vital evidence for modeling their paleogeographic linkage, including their …

Global Meso-Neoproterozoic plate reconstruction and formation mechanism for Precambrian basins: Constraints from three cratons in China

S Li, X Li, G Wang, Y Liu, Z Wang, T Wang, X Cao… - Earth-Science …, 2019 - Elsevier
Abstract The Meso-Neoproterozoic period, sometimes referred to as the 'boring billion'or
'Earth's middle age', spans the interval between the formation of the Columbia and Rodina …

Stratigraphic position of the Ediacaran Miaohe biota and its constrains on the age of the upper Doushantuo δ13C anomaly in the Yangtze Gorges area, South China

Z An, G Jiang, J Tong, L Tian, Q Ye, H Song… - Precambrian …, 2015 - Elsevier
The siliceous shale unit that hosts the Ediacaran Miaohe biota in the Yangtze Gorges area,
commonly referred to as the Miaohe Member, has an age of 551±0.7 Ma. This unit is thought …