Greater Avalonia—latest Ediacaran–Ordovician “peribaltic” terrane bounded by continental margin prisms (“Ganderia,” Harlech Dome, Meguma): review, tectonic …

E Landing, JD Keppie, DF Keppie, G Geyer… - Earth-Science …, 2022 - Elsevier
Abstract Distinctive uppermost Ediacaran–Ordovician rocks (Avalonian overstep sequence)
were key in definition of Avalonia, which comprises large areas of the NE Appalachians and …

Arctic lithosphere—A review

V Pease, S Drachev, R Stephenson, X Zhang - Tectonophysics, 2014 - Elsevier
This article reviews the characteristics of Arctic lithosphere and the principal tectonic events
which have shaped it. The current state-of-knowledge associated with the crust, crustal …

[HTML][HTML] Linking collisional and accretionary orogens during Rodinia assembly and breakup: Implications for models of supercontinent cycles

PA Cawood, RA Strachan, SA Pisarevsky… - Earth and Planetary …, 2016 - Elsevier
Periodic assembly and dispersal of continental fragments has been a characteristic of the
solid Earth for much of its history. Geodynamic drivers of this cyclic activity are inferred to be …

Detrital zircon U–Pb geochronology, Hf-isotopes and geochemistry—new clues for the Precambrian crustal evolution of Cathaysia Block, South China

J Yao, L Shu, M Santosh - Gondwana Research, 2011 - Elsevier
This paper reports some new results from U–Pb geochronological, Hf isotopic and REE
geochemical studies of detrital zircons in the Ordovician sandstones from South Jiangxi …

Neoproterozoic tectonic evolution of the Precambrian Aksu blueschist terrane, northwestern Tarim, China: insights from LA-ICP-MS zircon U–Pb ages and …

W Zhu, B Zheng, L Shu, D Ma, H Wu, Y Li… - Precambrian …, 2011 - Elsevier
The Precambrian Aksu blueschist terrane (ABT) located in the northwestern Tarim Craton
was formerly regarded as a Mesoproterozoic or an early Neoproterozoic complex. Yet, its …

Gondwanan basement terranes of the Variscan–Appalachian orogen: Baltican, Saharan and West African hafnium isotopic fingerprints in Avalonia, Iberia and the …

BJ Henderson, WJ Collins, JB Murphy… - Tectonophysics, 2016 - Elsevier
Abstract Iberia, Avalonia and the “Armorican” terranes form key constituents of the Variscan–
Appalachian orogen, but their Neoproterozoic origins along the northern Gondwanan …

Granitic magmatism, basement ages, and provenance indicators in the Malay Peninsula: insights from detrital zircon U–Pb and Hf-isotope data

I Sevastjanova, B Clements, R Hall, EA Belousova… - Gondwana …, 2011 - Elsevier
The Malay Peninsula lies on two continental blocks, Sibumasu and East Malaya, which are
intruded by granitoids in two provinces: the Main Range and Eastern. Previous models …

Detrital zircon U–Pb geochronology and Hf isotope data from Central Tianshan suggesting a link with the Tarim Block: implications on Proterozoic supercontinent …

X Ma, L Shu, M Santosh, J Li - Precambrian Research, 2012 - Elsevier
The Central Tianshan, which is proposed to be part of the Tarim Block during Precambrian
time, holds a pivotal role in the evolution of the Central Asian Orogenic Belt. In this study we …

Balkatach hypothesis: A new model for the evolution of the Pacific, Tethyan, and Paleo-Asian oceanic domains

AV Zuza, A Yin - Geosphere, 2017 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
The Phanerozoic history of the Paleo-Asian, Tethyan, and Pacific oceanic domains is
important for unraveling the tectonic evolution of the Eurasian and Laurentian continents …

Tectonic evolution of the Siberian paleocontinent from the Neoproterozoic to the Late Mesozoic: paleomagnetic record and reconstructions

DV Metelkin, VA Vernikovsky, AY Kazansky - Russian Geology and …, 2012 - Elsevier
In this paper we present the results of a generalization of paleomagnetic data for the territory
of the Siberian craton and its folded framing that were obtained during the last fifteen years …