Plate tectonics and the Archean Earth

M Brown, T Johnson, NJ Gardiner - Annual Review of Earth and …, 2020 - annualreviews.org
If we accept that a critical condition for plate tectonics is the creation and maintenance of a
global network of narrow boundaries separating multiple plates, then to argue for plate …

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 …

The coupled geochemistry of Au and As in pyrite from hydrothermal ore deposits

AP Deditius, M Reich, SE Kesler, S Utsunomiya… - … et Cosmochimica Acta, 2014 - Elsevier
The ubiquity of Au-bearing arsenian pyrite in hydrothermal ore deposits suggests that the
coupled geochemical behaviour of Au and As in this sulfide occurs under a wide range of …

Antarctica—before and after Gondwana

SD Boger - Gondwana Research, 2011 - Elsevier
The origin of the Antarctic continent can be traced to a relatively small late Archaean cratonic
nucleus centred on the Terre Adélie regions of East Antarctica and the Gawler Craton region …

Tectono-stratigraphic framework of Neoproterozoic to Cambrian strata, west-central US: Protracted rifting, glaciation, and evolution of the North American Cordilleran …

WA Yonkee, CD Dehler, PK Link, EA Balgord… - Earth-Science …, 2014 - Elsevier
Stratigraphic, geochronologic, and geochemical patterns of Neoproterozoic to Cambrian
sedimentary and volcanic rocks in Utah, Nevada, and SE Idaho record a dynamically …

The 1800–1100 Ma tectonic evolution of Australia

PG Betts, D Giles - Precambrian Research, 2006 - Elsevier
This paper presents a plate tectonic model for the evolution of the Australian continent
between ca. 1800 and 1100Ma. Between ca. 1800 and 1600Ma episodic orogenesis …

Assembling Australia: Proterozoic building of a continent

PA Cawood, RJ Korsch - Precambrian Research, 2008 - Elsevier
The western two-thirds of Australia is underlain by Precambrian rocks that are divisible into
three Archean to Paleoproterozoic cratons, the West Australian, North Australian and South …

The Tasmanides: Phanerozoic tectonic evolution of eastern Australia

G Rosenbaum - Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences, 2018 - annualreviews.org
The Tasmanides occupy the eastern third of Australia and provide an extensive record of the
evolution of the eastern Gondwanan convergent plate boundary from the Cambrian to the …

Tectonic framework and evolution of the Gawler Craton, Southern Australia

M Hand, A Reid, L Jagodzinski - Economic Geology, 2007 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
The Gawler craton is the major crustal province in the southern Australian Proterozoic and is
pivotal in models seeking to describe the evolution of Proterozoic Australia. The craton is …

Refining accretionary orogen models for the Tasmanides of eastern Australia

RA Glen - Australian Journal of Earth Sciences, 2013 - Taylor & Francis
The well-known southwest-to-northeast younging of stratigraphy over a present-day cross
strike distance of> 1500 km in the southern Tasmanides of eastern Australia has been used …