Grenville-age basement provinces in East Antarctica: evidence for three separate collisional orogens

ICW Fitzsimons - Geology, 2000 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
Three Grenville-age provinces can be distinguished in East Antarctica with U-Pb zircon data.
The Maud, Rayner, and Wilkes provinces each have a distinctive age signature for late …

Continuation of the Laurentian Grenville province across the Ross Sea margin of East Antarctica

JW Goodge, CM Fanning, DM Brecke… - The Journal of …, 2010 - journals.uchicago.edu
Zircon U-Pb ages from glacial clasts in Quaternary tills of the central Transantarctic
Mountains indicate the presence of Grenville-age crust along the Ross Sea margin of East …

Proterozoic crustal evolution of central East Antarctica: Age and isotopic evidence from glacial igneous clasts, and links with Australia and Laurentia

JW Goodge, CM Fanning, CM Fisher, JD Vervoort - Precambrian Research, 2017 - Elsevier
Rock clasts entrained in glacial deposits sourced from the continental interior of Antarctica
provide an innovative means to determine the age and composition of ice-covered crust …

Antarctica and supercontinent evolution: historical perspectives, recent advances and unresolved issues

SL Harley, ICW Fitzsimons, Y Zhao - Geological Society, London …, 2013 - lyellcollection.org
The Antarctic rock record spans some 3.5 billion years of history, and has made important
contributions to our understanding of how Earth's continents assemble and disperse through …

The Rayner Complex of East Antarctica: complex isotopic systematics within a Proterozoic mobile belt

LP Black, SL Harley, SS Sun… - Journal of Metamorphic …, 1987 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract New isotopic (Rb–Sr, U–Pb zircon and Sm–Nd) and petrological data are
presented for part of an extensive Proterozoic mobile belt (locally known as the Rayner …

West Antarctica in Gondwanaland: crustal blocks, reconstruction and breakup processes

BC Storey, IWD Dalziel, SW Garrett, AM Grunow… - Tectonophysics, 1988 - Elsevier
Abstract A combined BAS-USARP West Antarctic Tectonic Project has provided new
constraints on the crustal structure and geological evolution of West Antarctica and its …

Constraints on the stratigraphic age of metasedimentary rocks from the Larsemann Hills, East Antarctica: possible implications for Neoproterozoic tectonics

Y Zhao, X Liu, B Song, Z Zhang, J Li, Y Yao… - Precambrian …, 1995 - Elsevier
In this study we investigate crystallization ages of detrital zircon from paragneiss from the
Larsemann Hills, East Antarctica, using the single zircon Pb Pb thermal evaporation …

U–Pb evidence of∼ 1.7 Ga crustal tectonism during the Nimrod Orogeny in the Transantarctic Mountains, Antarctica: implications for Proterozoic plate reconstructions

JW Goodge, CM Fanning, VC Bennett - Precambrian Research, 2001 - Elsevier
The Pacific margin of East Antarctica records a long tectonic history of crustal growth and
breakup, culminating in the early Paleozoic Ross Orogeny associated with Gondwanaland …

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 …

Archaean-Cambrian crustal development of East Antarctica: metamorphic characteristics and tectonic implications

SL Harley - Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 2003 - lyellcollection.org
Abstract The East Antarctic Shield consists of a variety of Archaean and Proterozoic-
Cambrian high-grade terranes that have distinct crustal histories and were amalgamated at …