Baltica upside down: A new plate tectonic model for Rodinia and
ABSTRACT We propose that Baltica was geographically inverted throughout the Neoproterozoic and therefore suggest reassessment of the classic Wilson Cycle paleoreconstruction depicting an Atlantic-type early Paleozoic (Iapetus) ocean between western Norway and East Greenland. Our new reconstruction d...
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ftciteseerx:oai:CiteSeerX.psu:10.1.1.1040.2678 2023-05-15T16:03:43+02:00 Baltica upside down: A new plate tectonic model for Rodinia and Ebbe H Hartz Trond H Torsvik The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives 2002 application/pdf http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.1040.2678 http://www.earthdynamics.org/torsvik/torsvik-papers/2002/2002-Hartz-Torsvik-Geology.pdf en eng http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.1040.2678 http://www.earthdynamics.org/torsvik/torsvik-papers/2002/2002-Hartz-Torsvik-Geology.pdf Metadata may be used without restrictions as long as the oai identifier remains attached to it. http://www.earthdynamics.org/torsvik/torsvik-papers/2002/2002-Hartz-Torsvik-Geology.pdf text 2002 ftciteseerx 2020-03-08T01:23:15Z ABSTRACT We propose that Baltica was geographically inverted throughout the Neoproterozoic and therefore suggest reassessment of the classic Wilson Cycle paleoreconstruction depicting an Atlantic-type early Paleozoic (Iapetus) ocean between western Norway and East Greenland. Our new reconstruction dismisses the need for 180؇ rotation of Baltica after breakup of Iapetus and presents more plausible geologic correlations between Baltica, Laurentia, and Gondwana than those accompanying previous fits. In our reconstruction, the breakup that led to the formation of the Iapetus Ocean was initiated at a junction between a rift (Laurentia-Gondwana), a right-lateral fault (Laurentia-Baltica), and a trench (inverted Baltica-Gondwana), thereby linking the late Precambrian Iapetus opening to the Timanian and Avalonian orogenies between Gondwana and an inverted Baltica. Text East Greenland Greenland Unknown Greenland Norway |
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ABSTRACT We propose that Baltica was geographically inverted throughout the Neoproterozoic and therefore suggest reassessment of the classic Wilson Cycle paleoreconstruction depicting an Atlantic-type early Paleozoic (Iapetus) ocean between western Norway and East Greenland. Our new reconstruction dismisses the need for 180؇ rotation of Baltica after breakup of Iapetus and presents more plausible geologic correlations between Baltica, Laurentia, and Gondwana than those accompanying previous fits. In our reconstruction, the breakup that led to the formation of the Iapetus Ocean was initiated at a junction between a rift (Laurentia-Gondwana), a right-lateral fault (Laurentia-Baltica), and a trench (inverted Baltica-Gondwana), thereby linking the late Precambrian Iapetus opening to the Timanian and Avalonian orogenies between Gondwana and an inverted Baltica. |
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Baltica upside down: A new plate tectonic model for Rodinia and |
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Baltica upside down: A new plate tectonic model for Rodinia and |
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