Comparative geological evolution of the Borborema Province and São Francisco Craton (eastern Brazil): Decratonization and crustal reworking during West …

SP Neves - Precambrian Research, 2021 - Elsevier
80% of the continental crust was produced during the 4.0–2.0 Ga time span, but the
preserved area of Archean/early Paleoproterozoic cratons is smaller than 40%. Part of this …

[HTML][HTML] Adamastor–an ocean that never existed?

J Konopásek, C Cavalcante, H Fossen… - Earth-Science …, 2020 - Elsevier
Existing models of tectonic evolution of the Neoproterozoic orogenic system rimming the
shores of the South Atlantic Ocean (the Araçuaí–Ribeira–Congo and Dom Feliciano–Kaoko …

Multi-proxy evidence for subduction of the Neoproterozoic Adamastor Ocean and Wilson cycle tectonics in the South Atlantic Brasiliano Orogenic System of Western …

FA Caxito, LA Hartmann, M Heilbron… - Precambrian …, 2022 - Elsevier
Abstract Field, petrographic, geophysical, geochronological, elemental and isotopic data
support the identification of distinct components of a Wilson cycle (rift-drift-subduction …

New geochronologic and paleomagnetic results from early Neoproterozoic mafic sills and late Mesoproterozoic to early Neoproterozoic successions in the eastern …

H Zhao, S Zhang, J Ding, L Chang, Q Ren, H Li… - …, 2020 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
The interval from the late Mesoproterozoic to early Neoproterozoic is generally considered
as a critical time for the amalgamation of Rodinia. The location of the North China Craton …

The role of V-shaped oceans and ribbon continents in the Brasiliano/PanAfrican assembly of western Gondwana

FA Caxito, FF Alkmim - Scientific Reports, 2023 - nature.com
Western Gondwana amalgamated by collision of continental blocks that did not form prior
conjugated margins (extroversion), and by typical Wilson cycles, when continental blocks …

Decratonization by rifting enables orogenic reworking and transcurrent dispersal of old terranes in NE Brazil

CE Ganade, RF Weinberg, FA Caxito, LBL Lopes… - Scientific Reports, 2021 - nature.com
Dispersion and deformation of cratonic fragments within orogens require weakening of the
craton margins in a process of decratonization. The orogenic Borborema Province, in NE …

Reconstructing Tonian seawater 87Sr/86Sr using calcite microspar

Y Zhou, PAEP von Strandmann, M Zhu, H Ling… - …, 2020 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
Abstract The Tonian Period followed a long interval of relative stasis and led into the climatic
extremes and biological radiations of multicellular life during the Cryogenian and Ediacaran …

[HTML][HTML] A review of the intraplate mafic magmatic record of the greater Congo craton

C Djeutchou, M de Kock, RE Ernst, FGO Ossa… - Earth-Science …, 2024 - Elsevier
During the last few decades, the interest in studying intraplate mafic events has increased
dramatically, mostly towards the events of Large Igneous Province (LIP) scale. These events …

Time constraints on Early Tonian Rifting and Cryogenian Arc terrane-continent convergence along the northern margin of the West African craton: Insights from …

EH Bouougri, AA Lahna, CCG Tassinari, MAS Basei… - Gondwana …, 2020 - Elsevier
Abstract The Neoproterozoic Anti-Atlas belt (Morocco) is a key segment in tracing the history
of the northern margin of the West African craton (WAC) from Rodinia breakup to Gondwana …

A magmatic barcode for the São Francisco Craton: Contextual in-situ SHRIMP UPb baddeleyite and zircon dating of the Lavras, Pará de Minas and Formiga dyke …

F de Andrade Caxito, S Hagemann, TG Dias, V Barrote… - Lithos, 2020 - Elsevier
Eoarchean to Rhyacian crust is preserved in the São Francisco Craton of eastern Brazil. To
position this crustal segment in paleocontinental reconstructions, precise, accurate and …