Re-evaluating the link between the Ellsworth Mountains and East Antarctica in the Neoproterozoic: Implications for the breakup of Rodinia and the existence of Pannotia

• Main Authors: Castillo, Paula, Poblete, Fernando, Fernández, Rodrigo, Bastías-Silva, Joaquín, Fanning, C. Mark
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Elsevier 2024
• Subjects: Cryogenian; Cambrian; Zircon U-Pb; O-Hf isotopes; Paleo-Pacific margin; Gondwana; Antarctic; East Antarctica; Ellsworth Mountains; Liberty Hills; Pacific; Shackleton; Shackleton Range; Transantarctic Mountains; Antarc*; Antarctica
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11850/661990; https://doi.org/10.3929/ethz-b-000661990

Our current understanding of the Ellsworth Mountains stratigraphy suggests the oldest sedimentary sequence (Heritage Group) was deposited in a Cambrian rift setting. This early Paleozoic age is then used as a key piercing point to help define Cambrian paleogeography for the southern paleo-Pacific ma...