Antarctica—before and after Gondwana

SD Boger - Gondwana Research, 2011 - Elsevier
The origin of the Antarctic continent can be traced to a relatively small late Archaean cratonic
nucleus centred on the Terre Adélie regions of East Antarctica and the Gawler Craton region …

Proterozoic tectonics of eastern South China: From ca. 1.45 Ga rifting in the interior of Columbia to a long-lived convergent orogen at the periphery of Rodinia

Y Wang, Y Zhang, PA Cawood, C Wang, C Gan - Earth-Science Reviews, 2024 - Elsevier
The Proterozoic geological records in eastern South China preserve a history linked to the
Columbia and Rodinia supercontinent cycles and provide key constraints in understanding …

The making and unmaking of a supercontinent: Rodinia revisited

JG Meert, TH Torsvik - Tectonophysics, 2003 - Elsevier
During the Neoproterozoic, a supercontinent commonly referred to as Rodinia, supposedly
formed at ca. 1100 Ma and broke apart at around 800–700 Ma. However, continental fits (eg …

[图书][B] Continents and supercontinents

JJW Rogers, M Santosh - 2004 - books.google.com
To this day, there is a great amount of controversy about where, when and how the so-called
supercontinents--Pangea, Godwana, Rodinia, and Columbia--were made and broken …

An integrated microtextural and chemical approach to zircon geochronology: refining the Archaean history of the Napier Complex, east Antarctica

NM Kelly, SL Harley - Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology, 2005 - Springer
Integrated textural and chemical characterisation of zircon is used to refine the U–Pb
geochronology of the Archaean, ultra-high temperature Napier Complex, east Antarctica …

East Antarctic rifting triggers uplift of the Gamburtsev Mountains

F Ferraccioli, CA Finn, TA Jordan, RE Bell… - Nature, 2011 - nature.com
Abstract The Gamburtsev Subglacial Mountains are the least understood tectonic feature on
Earth, because they are completely hidden beneath the East Antarctic Ice Sheet. Their high …

Terminal suturing of Gondwana and the onset of the Ross–Delamerian Orogeny: the cause and effect of an Early Cambrian reconfiguration of plate motions

SD Boger, JML Miller - Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 2004 - Elsevier
A review of U–Pb age data from intrusive and volcanic rocks for Antarctica and Australia has
highlighted the remarkable synchronicity in the shift from passive margin or continental arc …

S‐velocity model and inferred Moho topography beneath the Antarctic Plate from Rayleigh waves

M An, DA Wiens, Y Zhao, M Feng… - Journal of …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract Since 2007/2008, seismographs were deployed in many new locations across
much of Antarctica. Using the records from 122 broadband seismic stations, over 10,000 …

Paleomagnetism and geochronology of the Malani Igneous Suite, Northwest India: Implications for the configuration of Rodinia and the assembly of Gondwana

LC Gregory, JG Meert, B Bingen, MK Pandit… - Precambrian …, 2009 - Elsevier
New paleomagnetic and geochronologic data from the Malani Igneous Suite (MIS) in
Rajasthan, northwest India, improve the paleogeographic reconstruction of the Indian …

Antarctica and supercontinent evolution: historical perspectives, recent advances and unresolved issues

SL Harley, ICW Fitzsimons, Y Zhao - Geological Society, London …, 2013 - lyellcollection.org
The Antarctic rock record spans some 3.5 billion years of history, and has made important
contributions to our understanding of how Earth's continents assemble and disperse through …