The supercontinent cycle: A retrospective essay

2013/02/04 by R. Damian Nance, J. Brendan Murphy, M. Santosh · 5 citations
Earth and Planetary Sciences · #Astrobiology #Breakup #Cenozoic #Continental drift #Craton #Earth science #Geological and Geochemical Analysis #Geology #High-pressure geophysics and materials #Orogeny #Paleontology #Phanerozoic #Plate tectonics #Rodinia #Supercontinent #Tectonics #earthquake and tectonic studies

paper · doi:10.1016/j.gr.2012.12.026

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Cited by

• How the closure of paleo-Tethys and Tethys oceans controlled the early breakup of Pangaea
• How subduction broke up Pangaea with implications for the supercontinent cycle
• Geological and tectonic evolution of the Transantarctic Mountains, from ancient craton to recent enigma
• Pannotia [wikipedia]
• Rodinia [wikipedia]