Timing of Grenville-age vs. Pan-African medium- to high grade metamorphism in western Dronning Maud Land (East Antarctica) and significance for correlations in Rodinia and Gondwana

• Main Authors: Jacobs, Jeffrey Bruce, Fanning, Christopher, Bauer, Wolfgang
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: Elsevier 2015
• Subjects: Keywords: geochronology; Gondwana; Grenvillian orogeny; paleomagnetism; Proterozoic; reworking; Rodinia; article; comparative study; island biogeography; sample; Antarctica Grenville; Kalahari; Mesoproterozoic; Orogeny; U-Pb SHRIMP; Zircon; Antarctic; Coats Land; Dronning Maud Land; East Antarctica; Grunehogna; Heimefrontfjella; Shackleton; Shackleton Range; Antarc*; Antarctica
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/1885/86036

Heimefrontfjella in western Dronning Maud Land, East Antarctica, is part of the c. 1.1 Ga Namaqua-Natal-Maud Belt. It is situated at an important location, both for Rodinia reconstructions and at the western orogenic front of the Late Neoproterozoic/Early Palaeozoic East African/Antarctic Orogen. Si...