Proterozoic-Cambrian history of Dronning Maud Land in the context of Gondwana assembly

• Main Authors: Bauer, W., Thomas, Robert James, Jacobs, J.
• Other Authors: Yoshida, M., Windley, B.F., Dasgupta, S.
• Format: Book Part
• Language: unknown
• Published: Geological Society of London 2003
• Subjects: Earth Sciences; Antarctic; Dronning Maud Land; East Antarctica; Pacific; Shackleton; Shackleton Range; Antarc*; Antarctica
• Online Access: http://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/3763/; http://sp.lyellcollection.org/content/vol206/issue1/

Dronning Maud Land contains a fragment of an Archaean craton covered by sedimentary and magmatic rocks of Mesoproterozoic age, surrounded by a Late Mesoproterozoic metamorphic belt. Tectonothermal events at the end of the Mesoproterozoic and in Late Neoproterozoic-Cambrian times (Pan-African) have b...