Abstract The Iapetus Ocean opened during the fission of the supercontinent Rodinia, from
the breakup of three of its core continental constituents: Laurentia, Baltica and Amazonia …

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 During the Early to Middle Palaeozoic, prior to formation of Pangaea, the Canadian
and adjacent New England Appalachians evolved as an accretionary orogen. Episodic …

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 Rheic Ocean was one of the most important oceans of the Paleozoic Era. It lay between
Laurentia and Gondwana from the Early Ordovician and closed to produce the vast Ouachita …

ABSTRACT The Canadian Appalachians are a segment of the long and narrow
Appalachian–Caledonian mountain belt, one of the Earth's classic orogens. The Canadian …

Abstract The Trans-Hudson Orogen (THO) of North America is one of the earliest orogens in
Earth's history that evolved through a complete Wilson Cycle. It represents c. 150 Ma of …

U-Pb ages for 1655 individual detrital zircon grains in 18 samples of eolian and associated
marine and fluvial sandstones of the Glen Canyon and San Rafael Groups from the …

The tectonics, dynamics, and biogeographic landscape of the early Paleozoic were
dominated by the opening and expansion of one large ocean—the Rheic—and the …

TIMS and SHRIMP U–Pb zircon geochronology of selected parts of the Puncoviscana
Formation suggest its deposition took place mainly during the Early Cambrian, coeval with …