Microcontinent subduction and S-type volcanism prior to India–Asia collision [PDF]
Scientific Reports, 2021 Continental crust has long been considered too buoyant to be subducted beneath another continent, although geophysical evidence in collision zones predict continental crust subduction.
Zongyao Yang +7 more
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Changes in orogenic style and surface environment recorded in Paleoproterozoic foreland successions [PDF]
Nature Communications, 2023 The Earth’s interior and surficial systems underwent dramatic changes during the Paleoproterozoic, but the interaction between them remains poorly understood. Rocks deposited in orogenic foreland basins retain a record of the near surface to deep crustal
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Temporal and structural evolution of the Early Palæogene rocks of the Seychelles microcontinent [PDF]
Scientific Reports, 2017 The Early Palæogene Silhouette/North Island volcano-plutonic complex was emplaced during the rifting of the Seychelles microcontinent from western India. The complex is thought to have been emplaced during magnetochron C28n.
J. Gregory Shellnutt +5 more
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The crystalline basement of Estonia: rock complexes of the Palaeoproterozoic Orosirian and Statherian and Mesoproterozoic Calymmian periods, and regional correlations [PDF]
Estonian Journal of Earth Sciences, 2009 New data on the Fennoscandian Shield and the Baltic area suggest a need for reinterpretation of the stratigraphy of Estonian Precambrian rock complexes.
Kirs, Juho +7 more
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The folds and faults kinematic association in Zagros [PDF]
Scientific Reports, 2022 The Zagros orogenic belt, one of the most prominent and famous collisional belts in the central part of the Alpine-Himalayan orogenic chain, is located between the southern margin of the Central Iranian microcontinent and the northern margin of the ...
Mohammad Ali Ghanbarian +1 more
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The parautochthonous Gondwanan origin of the Cuyania (greater Precordillera) terrane of Argentina: A re-evaluation of evidence used to support an allachthonous Laurentian origin [PDF]
Geologica Acta, 2007 A substantial, diverse body of evidence has been interpreted as suggesting that the Cuyania terrane of northwestern Argentina, which includes the Argentine Precordillera, rifted from the Ouachita embayment of Laurentia in the Early Cambrian, drifted ...
S. Finney
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Sedimentary provenance supports a mid-paleozoic tectonic connection between the Junggar and Altai terranes in central Asia [PDF]
Scientific ReportsThe provenance of Precambrian detritus in the Junggar and Altai terranes provides crucial constraints on the peri-Siberian accretionary tectonic evolution in the middle Paleozoic.
Di Li +8 more
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Combined use of the GGSFT data base and on board marine collected data to model the Moho beneath the Powell Basin, Antarctica [PDF]
Geologica Acta, 2007 The Powell Basin is a small oceanic basin located at the NE end of the Antarctic Peninsula developed during the Early Miocene and mostly surrounded by the continental crusts of the South Orkney Microcontinent, South Scotia Ridge and Antarctic Peninsula ...
R. CHÁVEZ SEGURA +5 more
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Remote Sensing, 2022 The Nyainrong microcontinent carries key information about the ongoing evolution of the central Tibetan Plateau. The 2021 Mw 5.7 Nagqu earthquake is the largest instrumentally recorded event inside this microcontinent, which provides an ideal opportunity
Xiaoge Liu +5 more
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Geosciences, 2022 The Pre-Caledonian margin of Baltica has been outlined as a tapering wedge with increasing magmatism towards the ocean–continent transition. It is, however, well known that margins are complex, with different and diachronous evolution along and across ...
Torgeir B. Andersen +3 more
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