The assembly of Gondwana 800-550 Ma

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作者
Meert, JG [1 ]
VanderVoo, R [1 ]
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[1] UNIV MICHIGAN, DEPT GEOL SCI, ANN ARBOR, MI 48109 USA
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10.1016/S0264-3707(96)00046-4
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P3 [地球物理学]; P59 [地球化学];
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0708 ; 070902 ;
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The formation of the supercontinent Gondwana heralded the beginning of the Phanerozoic following a complex series of collisional events after the break-up of earlier supercontinental assemblages. Paleomagnetic data are used to help distinguish between these events and it appears that there are three critical periods of mountain building during Gondwana assembly. The first major orogenic event took place between 800 and 650 Ma and has been termed the East Africa Orogeny. This tectonic episode formed the Mozambique Belt and likely resulted from the collision of India, Madagascar and Sri Lanka with East Africa. The second and third orogenic periods during Gondwana assembly partially overlap in time. The Brasiliano orogeny (600-530 Ma) resulted in the amalgamation of the South American nuclei and Africa. The Kuunga Orogeny was proposed, in part, because of the recent collection of geochronologic data indicating a 550 Ma granulite forming event in East Gondwana and the observation that the apparent polar wander path for Gondwana does not form a spatially and temporally coherent pattern until roughly the same time. The Kuunga orogeny may have resulted from the collision between Australia and Antarctica with the rest of Gondwana. (C) 1997 Elsevier Science Ltd.
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