Deconstructing South China and consequences for reconstructing Nuna and Rodinia

PA Cawood, W Wang, T Zhao, Y Xu, JA Mulder… - Earth-Science …, 2020 - Elsevier
Contrasting models for internal and external locations of South China within the Nuna and
Rodinia supercontinents can be resolved when the current lithotectonic associations of …

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 …

Assembly, configuration, and break-up history of Rodinia: a synthesis

ZX Li, SV Bogdanova, AS Collins, A Davidson… - Precambrian …, 2008 - Elsevier
This paper presents a brief synthesis of the current state of knowledge on the formation and
break-up of the early-Neoproterozoic supercontinent Rodinia, and the subsequent assembly …

Neoproterozoic, Paleozoic, and Mesozoic granitoid magmatism in the Qinling Orogen, China: Constraints on orogenic process

X Wang, T Wang, C Zhang - Journal of Asian Earth Sciences, 2013 - Elsevier
The Qinling Orogen is one of the main orogenic belts in Asia and is characterized by multi-
stage orogenic processes and the development of voluminous magmatic intrusions. The …

A synopsis of events related to the assembly of eastern Gondwana

JG Meert - Tectonophysics, 2003 - Elsevier
The assembly of the eastern part of Gondwana (eastern Africa, Arabian–Nubian shield
(ANS), Seychelles, India, Madagascar, Sri Lanka, East Antarctica and Australia) resulted …

Tectonic setting of the South China Block in the early Paleozoic: Resolving intracontinental and ocean closure models from detrital zircon U‐Pb geochronology

Y Wang, F Zhang, W Fan, G Zhang, S Chen… - …, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
Zircon U‐Pb geochronological data on over 900 zircon grains for Cambrian to Silurian
sandstone samples from the South China Block constrain the pre‐Devonian tectonic setting …

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 …

Components and episodic growth of Precambrian crust in the Cathaysia Block, South China: evidence from U–Pb ages and Hf isotopes of zircons in Neoproterozoic …

JH Yu, SY O'Reilly, L Wang, WL Griffin, MF Zhou… - Precambrian …, 2010 - Elsevier
Detailed LAM-ICPMS U–Pb dating and LAM-MC-ICPMS Lu–Hf isotope analysis were
carried out on zircons from nine samples of basement metamorphic rocks in the southern …

Precambrian tectonic evolution of the Tarim Block, NW China: new geochronological insights from the Quruqtagh domain

LS Shu, XL Deng, WB Zhu, DS Ma, WJ Xiao - Journal of Asian Earth …, 2011 - Elsevier
The Tarim Block is an important tectonic unit to understand the Proterozoic tectonic
framework of the Central Asian Orogenic Belt and the supercontinent Rodinia. The granitic …

[图书][B] Continents and supercontinents

JJW Rogers, M Santosh - 2004 - books.google.com
To this day, there is a great amount of controversy about where, when and how the so-called
supercontinents--Pangea, Godwana, Rodinia, and Columbia--were made and broken …