Abstract The Proterozoic Grenville orogeny (~ 1300–980 Ma) reactivated the Archean-
hosted Kapuskasing suture in Laurentia which then propagated west and south initiating the …

Abstract The Pan-African and Brasiliano orogenies endowed West Gondwanaland with U–
Pb 700–500 Ma zircons, which, together with 1200–1000 Ma zircons from Rodinian …

The São Francisco Craton (SFC) and its marginal Araçuaí and Brasília orogens exhibit a
significant diversity in their lithospheric architecture. These orogens were shaped during the …

Despite the increasing application of apatite (U-Th-Sm)/He thermochronology in a range of
settings, the technique suffers from two major unresolved problems which preclude reliable …

Abstract Northern Malawi's Nyika Plateau is a 3,700 km2 large, highly elevated (∼ 2,500 m)
plateau located at the western margin of the Miocene‐Recent Malawi rift and the confluence …

The Congo basin (CB) occupies a large part of the Congo craton, which derived from the
amalgamation of different cratonic pieces. As intracratonic basin, it initiated, possibly as a …

Abstract The South American Platform encompasses the São Francisco Craton (SFC) and
the Araçuaí-Ribeira orogenic system (AROS) located in the eastern Brazil. These geologic …

The fragmentary Phanerozoic geological record of the anomalously elevated Zimbabwe
Craton makes reconstructing its history difficult using conventional field methods. Here we …

Arthur Fuller with his field equipment exploring the Cape-Karoo on his motorcycle in 1960.
Today young geo-scientists are less attracted by such basic fieldwork (and freedom), yet the …

The view that cratons are tectonically and geomorphologically inert continental fragments is
at odds with a growing body of evidence partly based on low-temperature thermochronology …