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What's in a name? The Columbia (Paleopangaea/Nuna) supercontinent
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In this paper, the authors used Pangaea as a model and argued that any supercontinent should include 75% of the preserved continental crust relevant to the time of maximum packing.About:
This article is published in Gondwana Research.The article was published on 2012-05-01. It has received 350 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Supercontinent.read more
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The supercontinent cycle: A retrospective essay
TL;DR: In this article, the authors trace the development of ideas concerning long-term episodic orogeny and continental crust formation, such as those embodied in the chelogenic cycle, through the first realization that such episodicity was the manifestation of the cyclic assembly and breakup of supercontinents, to the surge in interest in supercontinent reconstructions.
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The dilemma of the Jiaodong gold deposits: Are they unique?
Richard J. Goldfarb,M. Santosh +1 more
TL;DR: The Jiaodong gold deposits as discussed by the authors are the largest gold deposits in the world, with an overall endowment estimated as >3,000 t Au. The vein and disseminated ores are hosted by NE-to-NNE-trending brittle normal faults that parallel the margins of ca. 165-150 ma, deeply emplaced, lower crustal melt granites.
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Earth History and Palaeogeography
TL;DR: Using full-colour palaeogeographical maps from the Cambrian to the present, this interdisciplinary volume explains how plate motions and surface volcanism are linked to processes in the Earth's mantle, and to climate change and the evolution of Earth's biota.
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Tectonic framework and evolution of the Tarim Block in NW China
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors provided a comprehensive synthesis on the regional geology and analytical data of the Tarim Block and its main evolution stages and its sedimentary-magmatic-metamorphic concurrence to the main tectonic events.
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Large igneous provinces and silicic large igneous provinces: Progress in our understanding over the last 25 years
Scott E. Bryan,Luca Ferrari +1 more
TL;DR: Large Igneous Provinces are exceptional intraplate igneous events throughout Earth's history as mentioned in this paper, where millions to tens of millions of cubic kilometers of magma are produced.
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Assembly, configuration, and break-up history of Rodinia: A synthesis
Zheng-Xiang Li,Zheng-Xiang Li,Svetlana Bogdanova,Alan S. Collins,A. Davidson,B. De Waele,Richard E. Ernst,Ian C.W. Fitzsimons,Reinhardt A. Fuck,Dmitry P. Gladkochub,Joachim Jacobs,Karl E. Karlstrom,S. Lu,L. M. Natapov,Victoria Pease,Sergei Pisarevsky,Kristine Thrane,Valery A. Vernikovsky +17 more
TL;DR: A brief synthesis of the current state of knowledge on the formation and break-up of the early Neoproterozoic supercontinent Rodinia and the subsequent assembly of Gondwanaland is presented in this paper.
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Did the breakout of laurentia turn gondwanaland inside-out?
TL;DR: Comparative geology suggests that the continents adjacent to northern, western, southern, and eastern Laurentia in the Late Proterozoic were Siberia, Australia-Antarctica, southern Africa, and Amazonia-Baltica, respectively.
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United Plates of America, The Birth of a Craton: Early Proterozoic Assembly and Growth of Laurentia
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Review of global 2.1-1.8 Ga orogens: implications for a pre-Rodinia supercontinent
TL;DR: The existence of a supercontinent existing before Rodinia, referred to herein as Columbia, a name recently proposed by Rogers and Santosh [Gondwana Res. 5 (2002) 5] for a Paleo-Mesoproterozoic super-continent, was confirmed by available lithostratigraphic, tectonothermal, geochronological and paleomagnetic data as mentioned in this paper.
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The early Precambrian odyssey of the North China Craton: A synoptic overview
TL;DR: The crustal growth and stabilization of the North China Craton (NCC) relate to three major geological events in the Precambrian: (1) a major phase of continental growth at ca. 2.9-2.7 Ga, (2) the amalgamation of micro-blocks and cratonization at 2.5-3.5 Ga, and (3) Paleoproterozoic rifting-subduction-accretion-collision tectonics and subsequent high-grade granulite facies metamorphism-granitoid mag