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Gondwana
About: Gondwana is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 6078 publications have been published within this topic receiving 263050 citations. The topic is also known as: Gondwanaland.
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TL;DR: In this article, the La Jolla Nd isotope data for the East African Orogen (EAO) was used to yield a useful summary of the history of the EAO.
457 citations
TL;DR: The oldest gold deposits in Asia reflect accretionary events along the margins of the Siberia, Kazakhstan, North China, Tarim-Karakum, South China, and Indochina Precambrian blocks while they were isolated within the Paleotethys and surrounding Panthalassa Oceans as discussed by the authors.
452 citations
TL;DR: In this article, the authors discuss the various models that have been proposed and highlight key areas of contention, including the relationships between the various Rodinia cratons to Laurentia, the notion of true polar wander (TPW), the lack of reliable paleomagnetic data and the enigmatic interpretations of the geologic data.
450 citations
TL;DR: In New Zealand, the Cambrian to Early Cretaceous basement can be described in terms of nine major volcano-sedimentary terranes, three composite regional batholiths, and three regional metamorphic-tectonic belts as discussed by the authors.
449 citations
TL;DR: Yangzi-Nanpanjiang and Gunanhai orogenic belts as mentioned in this paper are composed of three continental fragments: Yangzi, Huanan, and Dongnanya.
435 citations