Recent progress in plate tectonic reconstructions has seen models move beyond the
classical idea of continental drift by attempting to reconstruct the full evolving configuration of …

The Rheic Ocean, which separated Laurussia from Gondwana following the closure of
Iapetus, is arguably the most important ocean of the Palaeozoic. Its suture extends from …

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 …

Abstract Distinctive uppermost Ediacaran–Ordovician rocks (Avalonian overstep sequence)
were key in definition of Avalonia, which comprises large areas of the NE Appalachians and …

Abstract Within the Appalachian–Variscan orogen of North America and southern Europe lie
a collection of terranes that were distributed along the northern margin of West Gondwana in …

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

We provide estimates for the width, timing, and rates of opening and closing of the Iapetus
and Rheic oceans, the evolution of which profoundly influenced Paleozoic global …

The New York promontory serves as the divide between the northern and southern
segments of the Appalachian orogen. Antiquated subdivisions, distinct for each segment …

The Neoproterozoic tectonomagmatic evolution of West Avalonia comprises four major
events. Tectonism started with the formation of a Tonian passive margin on a Baltica-derived …

Seven new detrital-zircon U-Pb age analyses along with a compilation of previously
published data from Mississippian–Permian sandstones in the Appalachian foreland (total …