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Supercontinent cycle
About: Supercontinent cycle is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 175 publications have been published within this topic receiving 24604 citations.
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University of Western Australia1, Curtin University2, Lund University3, University of Adelaide4, Geological Survey of Canada5, Carleton University6, University of Brasília7, University of Bergen8, University of New Mexico9, Macquarie University10, Stockholm University11, University of Copenhagen12, Russian Academy of Sciences13
TL;DR: A brief synthesis of the current state of knowledge on the formation and break-up of the early Neoproterozoic supercontinent Rodinia and the subsequent assembly of Gondwanaland is presented in this paper.
3,240 citations
TL;DR: Comparative geology suggests that the continents adjacent to northern, western, southern, and eastern Laurentia in the Late Proterozoic were Siberia, Australia-Antarctica, southern Africa, and Amazonia-Baltica, respectively.
Abstract: Comparative geology suggests that the continents adjacent to northern, western, southern, and eastern Laurentia in the Late Proterozoic were Siberia, Australia-Antarctica, southern Africa, and Amazonia-Baltica, respectively. Late Proterozoic fragmentation of the supercontinent centered on Laurentia would then have been followed by rapid fan-like collapse of the (present) southern continents and eventual consolidation of East and West Gondwanaland. In this scenario, a pole of rotation near the Weddell Sea would explain the observed dominance of wrench tectonics in (present) east-west trending Pan-African mobile belts and subduction-accretion tectonics in north-south trending belts. In the process of fragmentation, rifts originating in the interior of the Late Proterozoic supercontinent became the external margins of Paleozoic Gondwanaland; exterior margins of the Late Proterozoic supercontinent became landlocked within the interior of Gondwanaland.
1,724 citations
TL;DR: The existence of a supercontinent existing before Rodinia, referred to herein as Columbia, a name recently proposed by Rogers and Santosh [Gondwana Res. 5 (2002) 5] for a Paleo-Mesoproterozoic super-continent, was confirmed by available lithostratigraphic, tectonothermal, geochronological and paleomagnetic data as mentioned in this paper.
1,574 citations
TL;DR: A supercontinent, here named Columbia, may have contained nearly all of the earth's continental blocks at some time between 1.9 Ga and 1.5 Ga.
1,377 citations
TL;DR: The pre-Rodinia supercontinent was assembled along global-scale 2.1-1.8 Ga collisional orogens and contained almost all of Earth's continental blocks as mentioned in this paper.
1,282 citations
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| 2022 | 1 |
| 2021 | 11 |
| 2020 | 4 |
| 2019 | 15 |
| 2018 | 8 |
| 2017 | 8 |