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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, a special issue of Precambrian Research brings together articles on aspects of the East African Orogen's tectonic history to provide a better understanding of this ancient mountain belt and its relationships to the evolution of crust, climate, and life at the end of Pre-ambrian time.
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TL;DR: Wang et al. as discussed by the authors brought up the concept of composite metallogenic system to summarize the regional metallogeny driven by superimposed orogeny, which caused the overlapping of diverse genetic types of deposit formed in different tectonic periods in the same tectono-metallogenic belt.
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01 Jan 1995
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors review the paleogeographic and plate tectonic setting of the supercontinent of Pangea during the Early Permian (mid-Sakmarian) and the Late Permians (Kazanian).
Abstract: In this chapter we review the paleogeographic and plate tectonic setting of the supercontinent of Pangea during the Early Permian (mid-Sakmarian) and the Late Permian (Kazanian). The paleogeographic reconstructions presented in Figs. 6 through 13 are based on the paleogeographIc maps assembled by the PALEOMAP Project (International Lithosphere Program) (Scotese and Golonka 1995) and have been revised to include information provided by authors of this Volume, as well as the recent paleogeographic syntheses published in the Decade of North American Geology and by Langford (1992), Yemane and Kelts (1990), Visser (1993), and other authors for the Gondwana continents.
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TL;DR: Evidence from the DNA sequences of four mitochondrial genes that challenges the conventional hypothesis and supports a salamander-caecilian relationship is presented and suggests a more recent (Mesozoic) origin for salamanders and caecilians directly linked to the initial breakup of the supercontinent Pangaea.
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TL;DR: In this article, the authors discuss the question of whether the late Mesoproterozoic and early Neoproteerozoic rocks of eastern, central and southern Africa, Madagascar, southern India, Sri Lanka and South America have played any role in the formation and dispersal of the supercontinent Rodinia, believed to have existed between about 1000 and 750 Ma ago.
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