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 …

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 …

[HTML][HTML] Gondwana's interlinked peripheral orogens

PA Cawood, EL Martin, JB Murphy… - Earth and Planetary …, 2021 - Elsevier
Abstract After its Ediacaran-Early Cambrian assembly, Gondwana was flanked by a system
of peripheral orogens, Terra Australis, Avalonian-Cadomian and newly defined North Indo …

Combined U–Pb and Hf isotope LA-(MC-) ICP-MS analyses of detrital zircons: comparison with SHRIMP and new constraints for the provenance and age of an …

A Gerdes, A Zeh - Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 2006 - Elsevier
Uranium–lead ages obtained by LA-ICP-MS analyses of zircon cores from a high-grade
Armorican metasediment from the Mid-German Crystalline Rise, Central Germany, yield …

The East European Craton (Baltica) before and during the assembly of Rodinia

SV Bogdanova, B Bingen, R Gorbatschev… - Precambrian …, 2008 - Elsevier
Prior to participating in Rodinia, the East European Craton (Baltica) had undergone a
complex process of development. Many of the structures, which were important during the …

Gondwanaland from 650–500 Ma assembly through 320 Ma merger in Pangea to 185–100 Ma breakup: supercontinental tectonics via stratigraphy and radiometric …

JJ Veevers - Earth-Science Reviews, 2004 - Elsevier
Gondwanaland lasted from the 650–500 Ma (late Neoproterozoic-Cambrian) amalgamation
of African and South American terranes to Antarctica–Australia–India through 320 Ma (mid …

A review of Wilson Cycle plate margins: A role for mantle plumes in continental break-up along sutures?

SJH Buiter, TH Torsvik - Gondwana Research, 2014 - Elsevier
Abstract The Wilson Cycle theory that oceans close and reopen along the former suture is a
fundamental concept in plate tectonics. It was named after J. Tuzo Wilson who recognised …

The palaeomagnetically viable, long-lived and all-inclusive Rodinia supercontinent reconstruction

DAD Evans - Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 2009 - lyellcollection.org
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 …

Origin of the Rheic Ocean: Rifting along a Neoproterozoic suture?

JB Murphy, G Gutierrez-Alonso, RD Nance… - …, 2006 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
Abstract The Rheic Ocean is widely believed to have formed in the Late Cambrian–Early
Ordovician as a result of the drift of peri-Gondwanan terranes, such as Avalonia and …

The pre-orogenic detrital zircon record of the Peri-Gondwanan crust

T Stephan, UWE Kroner, RL Romer - Geological Magazine, 2019 - cambridge.org
We present a statistical approach to data mining and quantitatively evaluating detrital age
spectra for sedimentary provenance analyses and palaeogeographic reconstructions …