Contemporaneous assembly of Western Gondwana and final Rodinia break-up: Implications for the supercontinent cycle

• Published in: Geoscience Frontiers
• Main Authors: Oriolo, Sebastián, Oyhantçabal, Pedro, Wemmer, Klaus, Siegesmund, Siegfried
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Elsevier Science
• Subjects: Brasiliano&Ndash;Pan-African Orogeny; Collisional Tectonics; Introversion-Extroversion; Metacratonization; Neoproterozoic; Pannotia; https://purl.org/becyt/ford/1.5; https://purl.org/becyt/ford/1; Antarctic; Terra Australis; Antarc*
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/11336/65452

Geological, geochronological and isotopic data are integrated in order to present a revised model for the Neoproterozoic evolution of Western Gondwana. Although the classical geodynamic scenario assumed for the period 800–700 Ma is related to Rodinia break-up and the consequent opening of major ocea...