Amalgamating eastern Gondwana: the evolution of the Circum-Indian Orogens

AS Collins, SA Pisarevsky - Earth-Science Reviews, 2005 - Elsevier
The Neoproterozoic global reorganisation that saw the demise of Rodinia and the
amalgamation of Gondwana took place during an incredibly dynamic period of Earth …

A review of the Mesoproterozoic to early Palaeozoic magmatic and tectonothermal history of south–central Africa: implications for Rodinia and Gondwana

SP Johnson, T Rivers, B De Waele - Journal of the Geological …, 2005 - lyellcollection.org
This paper provides a review of the tectonic evolution of central–southern Africa from
Mesoproterozoic to earliest Palaeozoic times, using available geological information and a …

Configuration of Columbia, a Mesoproterozoic supercontinent

JJW Rogers, M Santosh - Gondwana Research, 2002 - Elsevier
A supercontinent, here named Columbia, may have contained nearly all of the earth's
continental blocks at some time between 1.9 Ga and 1.5 Ga. At that time, eastern India …

Tectonic setting of the South China Block in the early Paleozoic: Resolving intracontinental and ocean closure models from detrital zircon U‐Pb geochronology

Y Wang, F Zhang, W Fan, G Zhang, S Chen… - …, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
Zircon U‐Pb geochronological data on over 900 zircon grains for Cambrian to Silurian
sandstone samples from the South China Block constrain the pre‐Devonian tectonic setting …

[HTML][HTML] The lithospheric architecture of Africa: Seismic tomography, mantle petrology, and tectonic evolution

GC Begg, WL Griffin, LM Natapov… - …, 2009 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
We present a new analysis of the lithospheric architecture of Africa, and its evolution from ca.
3.6 Ga to the present. Upper-lithosphere domains, generated or reworked in different time …

[CARTE][B] Continents and supercontinents

JJW Rogers, M Santosh - 2004 - books.google.com
To this day, there is a great amount of controversy about where, when and how the so-called
supercontinents--Pangea, Godwana, Rodinia, and Columbia--were made and broken …

Models of Rodinia assembly and fragmentation

SA Pisarevsky, MTD Wingate, CMA Powell, S Johnson… - 2003 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
Amongst existing palaeogeographic models of the Rodinia supercontinent, or portions
thereof, arguments have focused upon geological relations or palaeomagnetic results, but …

[HTML][HTML] Contemporaneous assembly of Western Gondwana and final Rodinia break-up: implications for the supercontinent cycle

S Oriolo, P Oyhantçabal, K Wemmer… - Geoscience Frontiers, 2017 - Elsevier
Geological, geochronological and isotopic data are integrated in order to present a revised
model for the Neoproterozoic evolution of Western Gondwana. Although the classical …

The Kalahari Craton during the assembly and dispersal of Rodinia

J Jacobs, S Pisarevsky, RJ Thomas, T Becker - Precambrian Research, 2008 - Elsevier
In this paper, we review the dimensions, geometry and architecture of the components of the
Kalahari Craton and the various positions this important crustal block could have occupied …

Palaeoproterozoic to Neoproterozoic growth and evolution of the eastern Congo Craton: its role in the Rodinia puzzle

B De Waele, SP Johnson, SA Pisarevsky - Precambrian Research, 2008 - Elsevier
The Central African Cratons comprise various Archaean and Palaeoproterozoic blocks,
flanked or truncated by orogenic belts ranging in age from Palaeoproterozoic (Rusizian …