[HTML][HTML] A dynamic 2000—540 Ma Earth history: From cratonic amalgamation to the age of supercontinent cycle

ZX Li, Y Liu, R Ernst - Earth-Science Reviews, 2023 - Elsevier
Establishing how tectonic plates have moved since deep time is essential for understanding
how Earth's geodynamic system has evolved and operates, thus answering longstanding …

A review of the Precambrian tectonic evolution of the Aravalli Craton, northwestern India: Structural, metamorphic and geochronological perspectives from the …

S Ghosh, J D'Souza, BR Goud, N Prabhakar - Earth-Science Reviews, 2022 - Elsevier
Abstract The Aravalli Craton, representing the Precambrian nucleus of northwestern India,
consists of the Archean Banded Gneissic Complex (BGC; 3.3–2.5 Ga) overlain by …

Large igneous provinces (LIPs), giant dyke swarms, and mantle plumes: significance for breakup events within Canada and adjacent regions from 2.5 Ga to the …

R Ernst, W Bleeker - Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences, 2010 - cdnsciencepub.com
Large igneous provinces (LIPs) are high volume, short duration pulses of intraplate
magmatism consisting mainly of flood basalts and their associated plumbing system, but …

Paleomagnetic and geochronological studies of the mafic dyke swarms of Bundelkhand craton, central India: Implications for the tectonic evolution and …

VR Pradhan, JG Meert, MK Pandit, G Kamenov… - Precambrian …, 2012 - Elsevier
The paleogeographic position of India within the Paleoproterozoic Columbia and
Mesoproterozoic Rodinia supercontinents is shrouded in uncertainty due to the paucity of …

Emplacement ages of Paleoproterozoic mafic dyke swarms in eastern Dharwar craton, India: Implications for paleoreconstructions and support for a∼ 30° change in …

U Söderlund, W Bleeker, K Demirer, RK Srivastava… - Precambrian …, 2019 - Elsevier
Large igneous provinces (LIPs) and especially their dyke swarms are pivotal to
reconstruction of ancient supercontinents. The Dharwar craton of southern Peninsular India …

[HTML][HTML] Strange attractors, spiritual interlopers and lonely wanderers: the search for pre-Pangean supercontinents

JG Meert - Geoscience Frontiers, 2014 - Elsevier
The observation is made that there are very strong similarities between the supercontinents
Columbia, Rodinia and Pangea. If plate tectonics was operating over the past 2.5 billion …

Precambrian mafic dyke swarms in the Singhbhum craton (eastern India) and their links with dyke swarms of the eastern Dharwar craton (southern India)

RK Srivastava, U Söderlund, RE Ernst, SK Mondal… - Precambrian …, 2019 - Elsevier
Based on trend, cross-cutting relationships and U-Pb dating, Precambrian mafic dykes in the
Singhbhum craton, earlier collectively identified as 'Newer Dolerite Swarm', have been …

Paleoproterozoic mafic dyke swarms from the Dharwar craton; paleomagnetic poles for India from 2.37 to 1.88 Ga and rethinking the Columbia supercontinent

ME Belica, EJ Piispa, JG Meert, LJ Pesonen… - Precambrian …, 2014 - Elsevier
Here we report new paleomagnetic and geochronologic results from the Dharwar craton
(south India) from 2.37 to 1.88 Ga. The presence of a∼ 85,000 km 2 radiating dyke swarm …

Palaeomagnetic, geochronological and geochemical study of Mesoproterozoic Lakhna Dykes in the Bastar Craton, India: Implications for the Mesoproterozoic …

SA Pisarevsky, TK Biswal, XC Wang, B De Waele… - Lithos, 2013 - Elsevier
Palaeomagnetic analysis of the Lakhna Dykes (Bastar Craton, India) yields a palaeopole at
36.6° N, 132.8° E, dp= 12.4°, dm= 15.9°, and the UPb zircon age obtained from one of the …

A Ca. 2.25 Ga mafic dyke swarm discovered in the Bastar craton, Central India: Implications for a widespread plume-generated large Igneous Province (LIP) in the …

RK Srivastava, U Söderlund, RE Ernst… - Precambrian …, 2021 - Elsevier
A precise U–Pb baddeleyite age (2251±4 Ma) has been obtained for an ENE-trending dyke
exposed near the Chhura region of the Bastar craton, and additional dykes of similar trend …