[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 …

[HTML][HTML] Origins of the supercontinent cycle

RD Nance, JB Murphy - Geoscience Frontiers, 2013 - Elsevier
The supercontinent cycle, by which Earth history is seen as having been punctuated by the
episodic assembly and breakup of supercontinents, has influenced the rock record more …

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 …

Is the rate of supercontinent assembly changing with time?

K Condie, SA Pisarevsky, J Korenaga, S Gardoll - Precambrian Research, 2015 - Elsevier
To address the question of secular changes in the speed of the supercontinent cycle, we use
two major databases for the last 2.5 Gyr: the timing and locations of collisional and …

Preliminary report on the paleomagnetism of 1.88 Ga dykes from the Bastar and Dharwar cratons, Peninsular India

JG Meert, MK Pandit, VR Pradhan, G Kamenov - Gondwana Research, 2011 - Elsevier
We report the results of a preliminary paleomagnetic study on well-dated 1.9 Ga dykes from
the Bastar craton, India. This suite of NW–SE trending dykes was linked to similarly-aged …

Neoarchean-Mesoproterozoic mafic dyke swarms of the Indian Shield mapped using Google Earth™ images and ArcGIS™, and links with large igneous provinces

AK Samal, RK Srivastava, RE Ernst… - Dyke swarms of the World …, 2019 - Springer
We present dyke swarm maps generated using Google Earth™ images, ArcGIS™, field data,
and available geochronological ages of Neoarchean-Mesoproterozoic (ranging in age …

The magmatic architecture of continental flood basalts I: Observations from the Deccan Traps

T Mittal, MA Richards, IM Fendley - Journal of Geophysical …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Flood basalts are some of the largest magmatic events in Earth history, with intrusion and
eruption of millions of km3 of basaltic magma over a short time period (∼ 1–5 Ma). A typical …

Newly identified 1.89 Ga mafic dyke swarm in the Archean Yilgarn Craton, Western Australia suggests a connection with India

JC Stark, XC Wang, SW Denyszyn, ZX Li… - Precambrian …, 2019 - Elsevier
Abstract The Archean Yilgarn Craton in Western Australia is intruded by numerous mafic
dykes of varying orientations, which are poorly exposed but discernible in aeromagnetic …

A 2207 Ma radiating mafic dyke swarm from eastern Dharwar craton, Southern India: drift history through Paleoproterozoic

E Nagaraju, V Parashuramulu, NR Babu… - Precambrian …, 2018 - Elsevier
We report new TE-TIMS precise Pb-Pb baddeleyite ages together with consistent
paleomagnetic results on two Paleoproterozoic mafic dyke swarms, intruding Archean …