The Pacific Ocean formed through Neoproterozoic rifting of Rodinia and despite a long
history of plate convergence, this ocean has never subsequently closed. The record of …

Age relations for assembly of Gondwana and Pangea indicate that the timing of collisional
orogenesis between amalgamating continental bodies was synchronous with subduction …

On multimillion-year time scales, Earth has experienced warm ice-free and cold glacial
climates, but it is unknown whether transitions between these background climate states …

Abstract The Tasmanides of eastern Australia record the break-up of Rodinia, followed by
the growth of orogenic belts along the eastern margin of Gondwana. Spatially, the …

The rare-earth elements (REE) are a group of seventeen speciality metals that have unique
and diverse chemical, magnetic, and luminescent properties that make them strategically …

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 …

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 …

The Lachlan Orogen, like many other orogenic belts, has undergone paradigm shifts from
geosynclinal to plate-tectonic theory of evolution over the past 40 years. Initial plate-tectonic …

New constraints on the tectonic evolution of the Neo-Tethys Ocean indicate that at∼ 90–70
Ma and at∼ 50–40 Ma, vast quantities of mafic and ultramafic rocks were emplaced at low …

We present a global synthesis of the geochemistry of intermediate to silicic intrusive and
volcanic rocks from 149 Phanerozoic to Archean ophiolites, and evaluate models for their …