Paleomagnetism of the Amazonian Craton and its role in paleocontinents

MS D'Agrella-Filho, F Bispo-Santos… - Brazilian Journal of …, 2016 - SciELO Brasil
In the last decade, the participation of the Amazonian Craton on Precambrian
supercontinents has been clarified thanks to a wealth of new paleomagnetic data. Paleo to …

Unraveling crustal growth and reworking processes in complex zircons from orogenic lower-crust: The Proterozoic Putumayo Orogen of Amazonia

M Ibanez-Mejia, A Pullen, J Arenstein, GE Gehrels… - Precambrian …, 2015 - Elsevier
High-grade basement massifs exposed in the northern Andes and the buried basement of
the adjacent Putumayo foreland basin contain a record of Amazonia's involvement in the …

New evidence for the Baltican cratonic affinity and Tonian to Ediacaran tectonic evolution of West Avalonia in the Avalon Peninsula, Newfoundland, Canada

LP Beranek, AD Hutter, S Pearcey, C James… - Precambrian …, 2023 - Elsevier
Provenance studies of quartzite clasts and enclosing sandstone units in the Avalon
Peninsula, Newfoundland, Canada, were conducted to test the Baltican or Gondwanan …

Paleo-Mesoproterozoic arc-accretion along the southwestern margin of the Amazonian craton: The Juruena accretionary orogen and possible implications for …

JE Scandolara, RT Correa, RA Fuck, VS Souza… - Journal of South …, 2017 - Elsevier
The southwestern portion of the Amazonian craton, between the Ventuari-Tapajós province
and the Andean chain, has been ascribed to a succession of orogenic events from 1.81 to …

From breakup of Nuna to assembly of Rodinia: A link between the Chinese Central Tianshan Block and Fennoscandia

Z Huang, C Yuan, X Long, Y Zhang, L Du - Tectonics, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
The transition from breakup of Nuna (or Columbia, 2.0–1.6 Ga) to assembly of Rodinia (1.0–
0.9 Ga) is investigated by means of U‐Pb and Lu‐Hf data of detrital zircons from three …

Cryogenian glaciostatic and eustatic fluctuations and massive Marinoan-related deposition of Fe and Mn in the Urucum District, Brazil

BT Freitas, ID Rudnitzki, L Morais… - …, 2021 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
Global Neoproterozoic glaciations are related to extreme environmental changes and the
reprise of iron formation in the rock record. However, the lack of narrow age constraints on …

The Laramide orogeny: Current understanding of the structural style, timing, and spatial distribution of the classic foreland thick-skinned tectonic system

AB Weil, A Yonkee - 2023 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
The Laramide foreland belt comprises a broad region of thick-skinned, contractional
deformation characterized by an anastomosing network of basement-cored arches and …

U-Pb detrital zircon analysis of sedimentary rocks of the southeastern New England Avalon terrane in the US Appalachians: Evidence for a separate crustal block

YD Kuiper, DP Murray, S Ellison, JL Crowley - 2022 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
The Avalon terrane of southeastern New England is a composite terrane in which various
crustal blocks may have different origins and/or tectonic histories. The northern part (west …

Zircon U–Pb ages of rocks from the Rio Apa Cratonic Terrane (Mato Grosso do Sul, Brazil): New insights for its connection with the Amazonian Craton in pre …

FM Faleiros, M Pavan, MJ Remédio, JB Rodrigues… - Gondwana …, 2016 - Elsevier
This paper presents 14 zircon U–Pb determinations (SHRIMP and LA-MC-ICP-MS) for key
geological units from the Rio Apa Cratonic Terrane (RACT), which is considered the …

Detrital zircon U-Pb provenance analysis of Precambrian and Paleozoic strata from southwestern Brazil: Assessment of potential Grenvillian sediment input and …

FR Harris, DP Moecher, E Tohver - Gondwana Research, 2023 - Elsevier
Southwest Amazonia is proposed to have collided with southeast Laurentia during the
Grenville orogeny. In Laurentia, the collision produced a continental-scale late …