Bryan C. Storey

TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigated the reasons why supercontinents disintegrate and disperse to form smaller continental plates, and found that possible causes range from abnormally hot mantle upwellings, or plumes, to changes in plate-boundary driving forces.

TL;DR: The field occurrence, age, classification and geochemistry of the Mesozoic volcanic rocks of Patagonia and West Antarctica are reviewed, using published and new information in this paper, where a diachronism is recognized between the Early-Middle Jurassic volcanism of eastern Patagonian (Marifil and Chon Aike formations) and the Middle Jurassic-earliest Cretaceous volcanisms of the Andean Cordillera (El Quemado, Ibanez and Tobifera formations).

TL;DR: The Pan-African orogeny (730-550 Ma) in Saharan Africa provides some insight into the contrasting behaviour of cratons and mobile belts as discussed by the authors, which is the locus of A-type granitoids, volcanism, tectonic reactivation and basin development during Phanerozoic.

TL;DR: A-type granitoids and mafic intrusive rocks of continental flood-basalt affinity were derived ultimately from lithospheric mantle sources as mentioned in this paper, indicating that mantle plume activity may have begun in mid-Cretaceous time, triggering melting of the lithosphere and controlling the locus of rifting.

TL;DR: In this paper, Ross and Amundsen provinces were subdivided into two superterranes in New Zealand, the Ross province is characterized by Cambrian metagraywackes and I-type orthogneiss dated at 505±5 Ma by U-Pb SHRIMP (Sensitive High Resolution Ion Microprobe).