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 …

Linking accretionary orogenesis with supercontinent assembly

PA Cawood, C Buchan - Earth-Science Reviews, 2007‏ - Elsevier
Age relations for assembly of Gondwana and Pangea indicate that the timing of collisional
orogenesis between amalgamating continental bodies was synchronous with subduction …

Porphyry deposits: Characteristics and origin of hypogene features

E Seedorff, JH Dilles, JM Proffett, MT Einaudi… - 2005‏ - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
Porphyry deposits arguably represent the most economically important class of nonferrous
metallic mineral resources. These magmatic-hydrothermal deposits are characterized by …

[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 …

A new look at the geology of the Zambian Copperbelt

D Selley, D Broughton, R Scott, M Hitzman, S Bull… - 2005‏ - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
Abstract The Zambian Copperbelt accounts for approximately 46 percent of the production
and reserves of the Cen tral African Copperbelt, the largest and highest grade sediment …

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 …

Proterozoic geochronology and tectonic evolution of southern Africa

RE Hanson - 2003‏ - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
The Precambrian foundation of southern Africa consists of Archaean cratonic nuclei
surrounded by belts formed during three separate Proterozoic orogenic episodes. Crust that …

Provenance of Kalahari Sand: Paleoweathering and recycling in a linked fluvial-aeolian system

E Garzanti, G Pastore, A Stone, S Vainer… - Earth-Science …, 2022‏ - Elsevier
We here review what is known about the dunefields and fluvial systems of the Kalahari
Basin in terms of geological setting and Quaternary dynamics and set out what has been …

Neoproterozoic crustal growth: the solid Earth system during a critical episode of Earth history

RJ Stern - Gondwana research, 2008‏ - Elsevier
The behavior of the solid Earth system is often overlooked when the causes of major
Neoproteozoic (1000–542 Ma) climate and biosphere events are discussed although∼ 20 …

Late Neoproterozoic and Early Cambrian palaeogeography: models and problems

SA Pisarevsky, JB Murphy, PA Cawood, AS Collins - 2008‏ - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
We present two alternative sets of global palaeogeographical reconstructions for the time
interval 615–530 Ma using competing high and low-latitude palaeomagnetic data subsets …