Abstract West and East Ganderia in the northern Appalachians and Caledonides,
respectively, represent a Gondwanan superterrane situated along the Tornquist margin of …

Abstract The Iapetus Ocean was the first ancient ocean to be identified following the
development of plate tectonics; its history has been fundamental in relating orogenesis and …

ABSTRACT The Appalachians are a Paleozoic orogen that formed in a complete Wilson
cycle along the eastern Laurentian margin following the breakup of supercontinent Rodinia …

The Killingworth dome of south-central Connecticut occurs at the southern end of the
Bronson Hill belt. It is composed of tonalitic and trondhjemitic orthogneisses (Killingworth …

Major late Paleozoic faults, many with documented strike‐slip motion, have dissected the
Ordovician‐Devonian Appalachian orogen in the Maritime Provinces of Atlantic Canada …

The concept of cyclic closure and opening of oceans along the same crustal scar was
introduced by JT Wilson (1966) based on the example of the Atlantic Ocean and its …

The supercontinent of Pangea formed through the diachronous collision of Laurussia and
Gondwana during the late Paleozoic. While magmatism associated with its formation is well …

Abstract Structural and 40Ar/39Ar geochronological investigations of the Rehamna Massif
(Meseta, Moroccan Variscan belt) provide new constraints on the tectonic evolution of the …

ABSTRACT The Appalachian Mountains were formed through multiple phases of Paleozoic
orogenesis associated with terrane accretion. The timing, tempo, and significance of each …

The Laramide foreland belt comprises a broad region of thick-skinned, contractional
deformation characterized by an anastomosing network of basement-cored arches and …