Evolution of the Rheic Ocean

TL;DR: The timing of and tectonic controls on Ordovician magmatism and deformation within accreted terranes are key elements in reconstructing the generation of the Caledonian-Appalachian orogen as discussed by the authors.

TL;DR: The lowermost carbonate beds of the Cerro San Pedro (San Pedro de la Cueva, Sonora State, Mexico) previously assigned to the Mississippian, belong in fact to the lower Ordovician as discussed by the authors.

TL;DR: In this paper, a re-evaluation of the mass wasting sites, considering their plate-tectonic distribution and the global sea level curve, has been proposed, which suggests that most of this mass wasting was triggered by earthquakes related to plate tectonic processes, which caused destabilisation of continental margins resulting in megabreccias and debris flows.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors used the results from the Odenwald-Spessart basement to show that amphibolites formed in different tectonic settings and were subsequently incorporated into a subduction zone prior to Variscan continental collision.

TL;DR: In this article, a plate tectonic model for the Paleozoic and Mesozoic (Ordovician to Cretaceous) integrating dynamic plate boundaries, plate buoyancy, ocean spreading rates and major Tectonic and magmatic events was developed.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined the history of plate motions between the American and Pacific plates in the late Cenozoic and found that the two plates were fixed with respect to one another until 5 m.y.

TL;DR: Sediment subduction occurs where sediment remains attached to the subducting oceanic plate and underthrusts the seaward position of the upper plate's resistive buttress (backstop) of consolidated sediment and rock as discussed by the authors.