Caught between two continents: first identification of the Ediacaran Central Iapetus Magmatic Province in Western Svalbard with palaeogeographic implications during final Rodinia breakup

• Published in: Precambrian Research
• Main Authors: Gumsley, Ashley, Manby, Geoffrey, Domańska-Siuda, Justyna, Nejbert, Krzysztof, Michalski, Krzysztof
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: 2020
• Subjects: Svalbard; Seiland; Oscar II; Oscar II Land; Sept-Îles; Spitsbergen
• Online Access: https://zenodo.org/record/3665661; https://doi.org/10.1016/j.precamres.2020.105622

The final fragmentation of Rodinia occurred during the Ediacaran period as the continental blocks of Baltica, Laurentia as well as Amazonia and West Africa rifted and drifted apart. It was along this progressively rifted margin that the Iapetus Ocean opened and subsequently closed, creating the Cale...