A Cordilleran model for the evolution of Avalonia

2002/07/01 by R. Damian Nance, R.Damian Nance, J. Brendan Murphy +3 · 7 citations
Earth and Planetary Sciences · #Accretion (finance) #Astrophysics #Baltica #Craton #Diachronous #Earth science #Geological and Geochemical Analysis #Geology #Gondwana #High-pressure geophysics and materials #Laurentia #Magmatism #Ordovician #Paleontology #Paleontology and Stratigraphy of Fossils #Paleozoic #Passive margin #Physics #Rift #Rodinia #Subduction #Supercontinent #Tectonics

paper · doi:10.1016/s0040-1951(02)00187-7

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• Sinistral transpression and the Silurian closure of Iapetus
• U-Pb geochronological constraints on Precambrian stratified units in the Avalon Composite Terrane of Nova Scotia, Canada: tectonic implications
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• A paleogeographical review of the peri-Gondwanan realm of the Appalachian orogen1This article is one of a series of papers published in this CJES Special Issue: In honour of Ward Neale on the theme of Appalachian and Grenvillian geology.
• Greater Avalonia—latest Ediacaran–Ordovician “peribaltic” terrane bounded by continental margin prisms (“Ganderia,” Harlech Dome, Meguma): Review, tectonic implications, and paleogeography
• Origin of the Rheic Ocean: Rifting along a Neoproterozoic suture?
• Evolution of the Rheic Ocean
• The Cadomian Orogeny and the opening of the Rheic Ocean: The diacrony of geotectonic processes constrained by LA-ICP-MS U–Pb zircon dating (Ossa-Morena and Saxo-Thuringian Zones, Iberian and Bohemian Massifs)
• Avalonia [wikipedia]