[HTML][HTML] A dynamic 2000—540 Ma Earth history: From cratonic amalgamation to the age of supercontinent cycle

ZX Li, Y Liu, R Ernst - Earth-Science Reviews, 2023 - Elsevier
Establishing how tectonic plates have moved since deep time is essential for understanding
how Earth's geodynamic system has evolved and operates, thus answering longstanding …

The supercontinent cycle

RN Mitchell, N Zhang, J Salminen, Y Liu… - Nature Reviews Earth & …, 2021 - nature.com
Supercontinents signify self-organization in plate tectonics. Over the past~ 2 billion years,
three major supercontinents have been identified, with increasing age: Pangaea, Rodinia …

Paleomagnetic constraints on the duration of the Australia-Laurentia connection in the core of the Nuna supercontinent

U Kirscher, RN Mitchell, Y Liu, AR Nordsvan… - …, 2021 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
Abstract The Australia-Laurentia connection in the Paleoproterozoic to Mesoproterozoic
supercontinent Nuna is thought to have initiated by ca. 1.6 Ga when both continents were …

[HTML][HTML] A geochronological review of magmatism along the external margin of Columbia and in the Grenville-age orogens forming the core of Rodinia

Å Johansson, B Bingen, H Huhma, T Waight… - Precambrian …, 2022 - Elsevier
A total of 4344 magmatic U-Pb ages in the range 2300 to 800 Ma have been compiled from
the Great Proterozoic Accretionary Orogen along the margin of the Columbia/Nuna …

Seismological evidence for the earliest global subduction network at 2 Ga ago

B Wan, X Yang, X Tian, H Yuan, U Kirscher… - Science …, 2020 - science.org
The earliest evidence for subduction, which could have been localized, does not signify
when plate tectonics became a global phenomenon. To test the antiquity of global …

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 …

A template for an improved rock-based subdivision of the pre-Cryogenian timescale

GA Shields, RA Strachan, SM Porter… - Journal of the …, 2022 - lyellcollection.org
The geological timescale before 720 Ma uses rounded absolute ages rather than specific
events recorded in rocks to subdivide time. This has led increasingly to mismatches between …

The Mesoproterozoic Baoban complex, South China: A missing fragment of western Laurentian lithosphere

YJ Xu, PA Cawood, HC Zhang, JW Zi, JB Zhou… - …, 2020 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
New age data for the Baoban Complex, South China establishes that it lay outboard of
western Laurentia in the early Mesoproterozoic but was not part of the Cathaysia Block, with …

Multiple P–T–d–t paths reveal the evolution of the final Nuna assembly in northeast Australia

S Volante, A Pourteau, WJ Collins… - Journal of …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
The final assembly of the Mesoproterozoic supercontinent Nuna was marked by the collision
of Laurentia and Australia at 1.60 Ga, which is recorded in the Georgetown Inlier of NE …

1.79–1.75 Ga mafic magmatism of the Siberian craton and late Paleoproterozoic paleogeography

DP Gladkochub, TV Donskaya, SA Pisarevsky… - Precambrian …, 2022 - Elsevier
The paper presents new geological, geochronological, geochemical, and Nd isotopic data
on the late Paleoproterozoic dolerites of the Siberian craton. U-Pb baddeleyite ages of the …