Stratigraphic record of the early Mesozoic breakup of Pangea in the Laurasia-Gondwana rift system

PE Olsen - Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences, 1997 - annualreviews.org
▪ Abstract Rift basins of the Central Atlantic Margins (CAM) of North America and Morocco
preserve largely continental sequences of sedimentary strata and less important minor …

Structural, stratigraphic and sedimentological characterisation of a wide rift system: The Triassic rift system of the Central Atlantic Domain

S Leleu, AJ Hartley, C van Oosterhout, L Kennan… - Earth-Science …, 2016 - Elsevier
The extension-driven break-up of the Pangean Supercontinent in the present-day Central
and North Atlantic domains commenced during Permo-Triassic times. Permian rift processes …

Synchroneity of climatic change and extinctions in the Late Triassic

MJ Simms, AH Ruffell - Geology, 1989 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
Abstract Although the Late Triassic was a time of widespread aridity, evidence exists for a
significant increase in rainfall during the middle to late Carnian. Upper Triassic playa-lake …

Development of tectonic cyclothems in rift, pull-apart, and foreland basins: sedimentary response to episodic tectonism

TC Blair, WL Bilodeau - Geology, 1988 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
The thickest part of asymmetric rift, pull-apart, and foreland basin fills commonly consists of
large-scale (hundreds to thousands of metres thick), tectonically generated cyclothems of …

Climatic and biotic change in the late Triassic

MJ Simms, AH Ruffell - Journal of the Geological Society, 1990 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
Generally arid conditions that pervaded much of Europe and North America during the late
Triassic were interrupted by a wet monsoonal climatic phase during Middle and Late …

The Carnian pluvial event in Western Europe: new data from Iberia and correlation with the Western Neotethys and eastern North America–NW Africa regions

A Arche, J Lopez-Gomez - Earth-Science Reviews, 2014 - Elsevier
At the beginning of the Late Triassic, a period of increased precipitation occurred over large
tracts of Central Pangea, the “Carnian Pluvial Event”. It was a short-lived event (> 1 Ma) …

Palynological investigations in the Carnian of the Cave del Predil area (Julian Alps, NE Italy)

G Roghi - Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology, 2004 - Elsevier
The palynological analysis on a continuous shallow-marine succession of the western
Tethys realm allows a better characterization of the Carnian (late Triassic) paleofloristic and …

A review of Proterozoic to Early Paleozoic lithotectonic terranes in the northeastern Appalachian orogen of New Brunswick, Canada, and their tectonic evolution …

LR Fyffe, SC Johnson, CR van Staal - Atlantic Geology, 2011 - erudit.org
Geological relationships preserved in the New Brunswick segment of the Appalachian
orogen are key to deciphering the complex tectonic events that occurred during the closing …

4. Progress in understanding the structural geology, basin evolution, and tectonic history of the eastern North American Rift System

RW Schlische - The great rift valleys of Pangea in eastern North …, 2003 - degruyter.com
1. Acquisition of new data. Over the past two decades, regional and local geologic map**,
drilling and coring, and seismic-reflection profiling have increased vastly our structural and …

Invertebrate ichnology of the nonmarine Lepreau Formation (Triassic), southern New Brunswick, eastern Canada

RB MacNaughton, RK Pickerill - Journal of Paleontology, 1995 - cambridge.org
Alluvial fan and braided fluvial redbeds of the Triassic Lepreau Formation of southern New
Brunswick, eastern Canada, contain a moderately diverse and abundant invertebrate …