Brook street and Murihiku terranes of New Zealand in the context of a mobile South Pacific Gondwana margin

New paleomagnetic data have become available in the past 5 yr that require modifications in previously published paleogeographic reconstructions for the Silurian and Devonian. In this paper, the new paleopoles are compared to published paleogeographic models based on paleoclimatologic and biogeographic data. The data from the three fields of paleomagnetism, paleoclimatology, and biogeography are generally in excellent agreement, and an internally consistent paleogeographic evolutionary picture of the interactions between North America, Gondwana, and intervening displaced terranes is emerging. During the interval of the Ordovician, Silurian, and Devonian, North America stayed in equatorial paleoposition, while rotating counter-clockwise. The northwest African part...

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10.1130/spe253-p139

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Baochun Huang Zhenyu Yang Yo‐ichiro Otofuji Rixiang Zhu

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Earth and Planetary Science Letters (2000)

Silvana Evangelina Geuna Rubén Somoza Haroldo Vizán Eduardo G. Figari Carlos A. Rinaldi

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Brook street and Murihiku terranes of New Zealand in the context of a mobile South Pacific Gondwana margin

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Nuclear Physics B - Proceedings Supplements (2009)

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Paleomagnetic constraints on the Mesozoic drift of the Lhasa terrane (Tibet) from Gondwana to Eurasia

Geology (2016)

Zhenyu Li Lin Ding Peter C. Lippert Peiping Song Yahui Yue

Abstract The Mesozoic plate tectonic history of Gondwana-derived crustal blocks of the Tibetan Plateau is hotly debated, but so far, paleomagnetic constraints quantifying their paleolatitude drift history remain sparse. Here, we compile existing data published mainly in Chinese literature and provide a new, high-quality, well-dated paleomagnetic pole from the ca. 180 Ma Sangri Group volcanic rocks of the Lhasa terrane that yields a paleolatitude of 3.7°S ± 3.4°. This new pole confirms a trend in the data that suggests that Lhasa drifted away from Gondwana in Late Triassic time, instead of Permian time as widely perceived. A total northward drift of ∼4500 km between ca. 220 and ca. 130 Ma yields an average south-north plate motion rate of 5 cm/yr. Our results are consistent with either an Indian or an Australian provenance of Lhasa.

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Assembly of Pampia to the SW Gondwana margin: A case of strike-slip docking?

Gondwana Research (2011)

Cecilia M. Spagnuolo Augusto E. Rapalini Ricardo A. Astini

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