[HTML][HTML] Orogen styles in the East African Orogen: A review of the Neoproterozoic to Cambrian tectonic evolution

H Fritz, M Abdelsalam, KA Ali, B Bingen… - Journal of African Earth …, 2013 - Elsevier
Abstract The East African Orogen, extending from southern Israel, Sinai and Jordan in the
north to Mozambique and Madagascar in the south, is the world́s largest Neoproterozoic to …

Geochronology of shear zones–A review

S Oriolo, K Wemmer, P Oyhantçabal, H Fossen… - Earth-Science …, 2018 - Elsevier
Shear zones play a major role in the deformation of the crust at a variety of scales, as
expressions of strain localization during orogeny and rifting, and also as reactivated …

Suturing Gondwana in the Cambrian: the orogenic events of the final amalgamation

RS Schmitt, RA Fragoso, AS Collins - Geology of southwest Gondwana, 2018 - Springer
Gondwana was consolidated in the late Cambrian after 180 myr of tectonic convergence
among Neoproterozoic paleocontinents and smaller fragments. We present a compilation of …

A geological synthesis of the Precambrian shield in Madagascar

RD Tucker, JY Roig, B Moine, C Delor… - Journal of African Earth …, 2014 - Elsevier
Available U–Pb geochronology of the Precambrian shield of Madagascar is summarized
and integrated into a synthesis of the region's geological history. The shield is described in …

Fluid-driven resetting of titanite following ultrahigh-temperature metamorphism in southern Madagascar

RM Holder, BR Hacker - Chemical Geology, 2019 - Elsevier
Abstract LA-ICP-MS U-Pb dates and EPMA trace-element maps of titanite were collected
from calc-silicate gneisses of the Ikalamavony (peak T: 750–800° C) and Anosyen (peak T …

Ultrahigh‐temperature osumilite gneisses in southern Madagascar record combined heat advection and high rates of radiogenic heat production in a long‐lived high …

RM Holder, BR Hacker, F Horton… - Journal of …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
We report the discovery of osumilite in ultrahigh‐temperature (UHT) metapelites of the
Anosyen domain, southern Madagascar. The gneisses equilibrated at~ 930° C/0.6 GPa …

Interpreting titanite U–Pb dates and Zr thermobarometry in high-grade rocks: empirical constraints on elemental diffusivities of Pb, Al, Fe, Zr, Nb, and Ce

RM Holder, BR Hacker, GGE Seward… - … to Mineralogy and …, 2019 - Springer
Length scales of compositional heterogeneity in titanite from 750 to 1000° C metamorphic
rocks from southern Madagascar were measured to provide empirical constraints on …

Post-collisional magmatism in the central East African Orogen: the Maevarano Suite of north Madagascar

KM Goodenough, RJ Thomas, B De Waele, RM Key… - Lithos, 2010 - Elsevier
Late tectonic, post-collisional granite suites are a feature of many parts of the Late
Neoproterozoic to Cambrian East African Orogen (EAO), where they are generally attributed …

A relic of the Mozambique Ocean in south-east Tanzania

DR Mole, SJ Barnes, RJM Taylor, PD Kinny… - Precambrian …, 2018 - Elsevier
Abstract The Neoproterozoic geology of East Africa records the events leading up to the
formation of Gondwana and subsequently Pangea, and hence understanding the …

Deformation and granite intrusion in the Sirohi area, SW Rajasthan—Constraints on Cryogenian to Pan-African crustal dynamics of NW India

H de Wall, MK Pandit, KK Sharma, S Schöbel… - Precambrian …, 2014 - Elsevier
This study provides further evidence for a Cryogenian (∼ 770–760 Ma) deformation event in
NW India, a region generally regarded tectonically stable during the Rodinia to Gondwana …