Tethyan, Mediterranean, and Pacific analogues for the Neoproterozoic-Paleozoic birth and development of peri-Gondwanan terranes and their transfer to Laurentia and Laurussia

Tectonophysics

Volumn 365, Issue 1-4, 2003, Pages 195-219

  Keppie, J Duncan ^a   Nance, R Damian ^b   Murphy, J Brendan ^c   Dostal, J ^d  

^a UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL AUTÓNOMA DE MÉXICO   (Mexico)

^b OHIO UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c ST FRANCIS XAVIER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^d SAINT MARY S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Analogues; Neoproterozoic Paleozoic birth; Peri Gondwanan terranes

Indexed keywords

GONDWANA; LAURENTIA; PALEOZOIC; PLATE TECTONICS; PROTEROZOIC; TECTONIC EVOLUTION; TECTONIC RECONSTRUCTION;

EID: 0038708430     PISSN: 00401951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0040-1951(03)00037-4     Document Type: Article

References (152)

1. Ayuso R.A. Barr S.M. Longstaffe F.J. Pb and O isotopic constraints on the source of granitic rocks from Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia, Canada American Journal of Science 296 1996 789-817
2. Ballard M.M. van der Voo R. Urrutia-Fucugauchi J. Paleomagnetic results from Grenvillian-aged rocks from Oaxaca, Mexico: evidence for a displaced terrane Precambrian Research 42 1989 343-352
3. Beck M.E.Jr. Case for northward transport of Baja and coastal southern California: paleomagnetic data, analysis, and alternatives Geology 19 1991 506-509
4. Bond C.G. Nickerson P.A. Kominz M.A. Breakup of a supercontinent between 625 Ma and 555 Ma: new evidence and implications for continental histories Earth and Planetary Science Letters 70 1984 325-345
5. Boucot, A.J., Blodgett, R.B., Stewart, J.H., 1997. European Province Late Silurian brachiopods from the Ciudad Victoria area, Tamaulipas, northeastern Mexico. In: Klapper, G., Murphy, M.A.,Talent, J.A. (Eds.), Paleozoic Sequence Stratigraphy, Biostratigraphy,and Biogeography: Studies in Honor of J. Grenville ("Jess") Johnson. Geological Society of America, Boulder, CO, Special Paper, vol. 321, pp. 273-293.
6. Brenchley P.J.M. Romano T.P. Young G.C. Storch P. Hirnantian glaciomarine diamictites-evidence for the spread of glaciation and its effect on Upper Ordovician faunas Barnes C.R. Williams S.H. Advances in Ordovician Geology 1991 325-336 Geological Survey of Canada Ottawa, Ontario
7. Cawood P.A. Dunning G.R. Lux D. van Gool J.A.M. Timing of peak metamorphism and deformation along the Appalachian margin of Laurentia in Newfoundland Geology 22 1994 399-402
8. Cawood P.A. McCausland P.J.A. Dunning G.R. Opening Iapetus: constraints from the Laurentian margin in Newfoundland Geological Society of America Bulletin 113 2001 443-453
9. Chandler F.W. Loveridge D. Currie K.L. The age of the Springdale Group, western Newfoundland, and correlative rocks-evidence for a Llandovery overlap sequence in the Canadian Appalachians Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 78 1987 41-49
10. Chantraine J. Auvray B. Brun J.P. Chauvel J.J. Rabu D. The Cadomian Orogeny in the Armorican Massif Keppi J.D. Pre-Mesozoic Geology in France and Related Areas 1994 75-128 Springer Berlin
11. Chantraine, J., Egal, E., Thiéblemont, D., Le Goff, E., Guerrot, C., Ballèvre, M., Guennoc, P., 2001. The Cadomian active margin (North Armorican Massif, France): a segment of the North Atlantic Panafrican belt., Tectonophysics 331, 1-18
12. Chéry, J., 2001. Core complex mechanics: from the Gulf of Corinth to the Snake Range. Geology 29, 439-442.
13. Cocks L.R.M. The Early Paleozoic of Europe Geological Society of London Journal 157 2000 1-10
14. Cocks L.R.M. Fortey R.A. Lower Paleozoic facies and faunas around Gondwana Audley-Charles M.G. Hallam A. Gondwana and Tethysbook Geological Society, London, Special Publication vol. 37 1988 183-200
15. Colman-Sadd S.P. Dunning G.R. Dec T. Dunnage-Gander relationships and Ordovician orogeny in central Newfoundland: a sediment provenance and U/Pb study American Journal of Science 292 1992 317-355
16. Cowan D.S. Brandon M.T. Garver J.I. Geologic tests of hypotheses for large coastwise displacements-a critique illustrated by the Baja British Columbia controversy American Journal of Science 297 1997 117-173
17. Cramer F.H. Diez M. del C.R. Early Paleozoic palynomorph provinces and paleoclimate Society of Economic Paleontologists and Mineralogists Special Publication 21 1974 177-188
18. Crouch J.K. Suppe J. Late Cenozoic tectonic evolution of the Los Angeles basin and inner borderland: a model for core complex-like crustal extension Geological Society of America Bulletin 105 1993 1415-1434
19. Currie K.L. Piaseki M.A.J. Kinematic model for southwestern Newfoundland based upon Silurian sinistral shearing Geology 17 1989 938-941
20. 39Ar mineral ages of the Penmynydd Schists Geological Society of London Journal 144 1987 843-850
21. Dalziel I.W.D. Pacific margins of Laurentia and East Antarctica-Australia as a conjugate rift pair: evidence and implications for an Eocambria supercontinent Geology 19 1991 598-601
22. Dalziel I.W.D. On the organization of American plates in the Neoproterozoic and the breakout of Laurentia GSA Today 2 11 1992 238-241
23. Dalziel I. Overview: Neoproterozoic-Paleozoic geography and tectonics: review, hypotheses and environmental speculations Geological Society of America Bulletin 109 1997 16-42
24. Debiche M.G. Engebretson D.C. The motion of allochthonous terrane across the North Pacific Basin Geological Society of America Special Paper 207 1987 (49 pp., Boulder, Colorado
25. Dennis A.J. Wright J.E. The Carolina terrane in northwestern South Carolina, USA: Late Precambrian-Cambrian deformation and metamorphism in a peri-Gondwana oceanic arc Tectonics 16 1997 460-473
26. Dewey J.F. Evolution of the Appalachian/Caledonian Orogen Nature 222 1969 124-129
27. Dickinson W.R. Lawton T.F. Carboniferous to Cretaceous assembly and fragmentation of Mexico Geological Society of America Bulletin 113 2001 1142-1160
28. Dickinson W.R. Snyder W.S. Geometry of subducted slabs related to San Andreas transform Journal of Geology 87 1979 609-627
29. D'Lemos R.D. Brown M. Sm-Nd isotopic characteristics of late Cadomian granite magmatism in northern France and the Channel Islands Geological Magazine 130 1993 797-804
30. D'Lemos R. Samson S.D. Nagy E. Miller B. Tectonothermal evolution of the Cadomian arc, northwest Europe-constraints from U-Pb zircon analyses and comparisons to Avalonia Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs 33 6 2001 A-206
31. Doig R. Nance R.D. Murphy J.B. Casseday R.P. Evidence for Silurian sinistral accretion of Avalon composite terrane in Canada Geological Society of London Journal 147 1990 927-930
32. Doré, F., 1994. The Variscan orogeny in the Armorican Massif:Cambrian of the Armorican Massif. In: Keppie, J.D. (Ed.), Pre-Mesozoic Geology of France and Related Areas. Springer, Heidelberg, Germany, pp. 136-141.
33. Dostal J. Keppie J.D. Cousens B.L. Murphy J.B. 550-580 Ma magmatism in Cape Breton Island (Nova Scotia, Canada): the product of NW-dipping subduction during the final stage of assembly of Gondwana Precambrian Research 76 1996 96-113
34. Egal E. Guerrot C. Le Goff D. Thieblemont D. Chantraine J. The Cadomian orogeny revisited in northern France Nance R.D. Thompson M.D. Avalonian and Related Peri-Gondwanan Terranes of the Circum-North Atlantic Geological Society of America, Boulder, CO, Special Paper vol. 304 1996 281-318
35. Eguíluz, L., Gil Ibarguchi, J.I., Àbalos, B., Apraiz, A., 2000. Superposed Hercynian and Cadomian orogenic cycles in the Ossa-Morena zone and related areas of the Iberian Massif. Geological Society of America Bulletin 112, 1398-1413.
36. Fernandez-Suárez, J., Gutiérrez-Alonso, G., Jenner, G.A., Turbrett, M.N., 2000. New ideas on the Proterozoic-Early Paleozoic evolution of NW Iberia: insights from U-Pb detritial zirconages. Precambrian Research 102, 185-206.
37. Franke W. Haak V. Oncken O. Tanner D. Orogenic Processes: Quantification and Modeling in the Variscan Belt Geological Society, London, Special Publication vol. 179 2000 102 pp.
38. Freidl G. Finger F. McNaughton N.J. Fletcher I.R. Deducing the ancestry of terranes: SHRIMP evidence for South America-derived Gondwana fragments in central Europe Geology 28 2000 1035-1038
39. Gebauer, D., 1994. Ein Modell der Entwicklungsgeschichte des ostbayerischen Grundgebirges auf der Basis plattentektonischer Vorstellungen und radiometrischer Datierungen 1994. Erläuterungen z
40. Gebauer, D.,Williams, I.S., Compston,W., Grünenfelder, M., 1989. The development of the Central European continental crust since the Early Archaean based on conventional and ion-microprobemicroprobe dating of detrital zircons up to 3.84 b.y. old. Tectonophysics 157, 81-96.
41. Gehrels G.E. Dickinson W.R. Ross G.M. Stewart J.H. Howells D.G. Detrital zircon reference for Cambrian to Triassic miogeoclinal strata of western North America Geology 23 1995 831-834
42. Gillis R.J. Gehrels G.E. Flores de Dios A. Ruiz J. Paleogeographic implications of detrital zircon ages from the Oaxaca terrane of southern Mexico Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs 33 6 2001 A-428
43. Goring M.L. Kay S.M. Zeitler P.K. Ramos V.A. Rubiolo D. Fernandex M.I. Panza J.L. Neogene Patagonian plateau lavas: continental magmas associated with ridge collision at the Chile Triple Junction Tectonics 16 1997 1-17
44. Greenough J.D. Krogh T.E. Kamo S.L. Owen J.V. Ruffman A. Precise U-Pb dating of Meguma basement xenoliths: new evidence for Avalonia underthrusting Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences 36 1999 15-22
45. Gutiérrez-Alonso G. LAM U-Pb dating of detrital zircons from the Armorican quartzite Geological Association of Canada Abstracts 26 2001 56
46. Gutiérrez-Alonso, G., Fernández-Suárez, J., Jeffries, T.E., Jenner, G.A., Cox, R.A., 2001. Towards a deconstruction of the western European Cadomian-Avalonian belt: detrital zircons telltheir tale. IGCP Project No. 453 Abstracts and programme, 65-66.
47. Hatcher R.D.Jr. Tectonic synthesis of the U.S. Appalachians Hatcher R.D. Thomas W. Viele G. The Appalachian-Ouachita Orogen in the United States Geological Society of America, Boulder, CO, Special Paper vol. F-2 1989 511-535
48. Heatherington A.L. Mueller P.A. Spencer J. Isachsen C.E. Terrane accretion in southeastern North America: constraints of geochronologic data from Paleozoic and Proterozoic granitoids Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs 25 1993 A-322
49. Heatherington A.L. Mueller P.A. Nutman A.P., 1996. Neoproterozoic magmatism in the Suwannee terrane: implications for terrane correlation. In: Nance R.D. Thompson M.D. Avalonian and Related Peri-Gondwanan Terranes of the Circum-North Atlantic Geological Society of America, Boulder, CO, Special Paper vol. 304, pp. 257-268
50. Hegner E. Kröner A., 2000 Review of Nd isotopic data and xenocrystic and detrital zircon ages from the pre-Variscan basement in the eastern Bohemian Massif: speculations on palinspastic reconstructions Franke W. Haak V. Oncken O. Tanner D. Orogenic Processes: Quantification and Modeling in the Variscan Belt Geological Society, London, Special Publication vol. 179 pp 113-129
51. Hibbard J.P. Docking Carolina: Mid-Paleozoic accretion in the southern Appalachians Geology 28 2000 127-130
52. Hibbard J. Samson S. 1995 Orogenesis exotic to the Iapetan cycle in the southern Appalachians Hibbard J. van Staal C. Cawood P.book Current Perspectives in the Appalachian-Caledonian Orogen. Geological Association of Canada Ottawa, Ontario, Special Paper vol. 41, pp. 191-205
53. Hibbard J.P. Stoddard E.F. Stoddard E.F. Secor D.T. Dennis A.J. 2002 The Carolina Zone: overview of Neoproterozoic to Early Paleozoic peri-Gondwanan terranes along the eastern flank of the southern Appalachians Earth Science Reviews 57, 299-339
54. Hodych J.P. Buchan K.L. Paleomagnetism of the Early Silurian Cape Marys sills of the Avalon Peninsula of Newfoundland Eos, Transactions of American Geophysical Union 75 1994 16
55. Hoffman P.F. Did the breakout of Laurentia turn Gondwanaland inside out? Science 252 1991 1409-1412
56. Jackson H.R. Chian D. Salisbury M. Shimeld J. 2000 Preliminary crustal structure from the Scotian margin to the Maritimes Basin from wide angle seismic reflection/refraction profiles Abstracts Volume 25, 73
57. Johnston S.T. The Great Alaskan Terrane Wreck: reconciliation of paleomagnetic and geological data in the northern Cordillera Earth and Planetary Science Letters 193 2002 259-272
58. Karlstrom, K.E., Williams, M.L., McLelland, J., Geissman, J.W., Ahäll, K.-I., Refining Rodinia: geologic evidence for the Australia-western U.S. connection in the Proterozoic GSA Today 9 1999 1-7
59. Kay M. North American geosynclines Geological Society of America Memoir 48 1951 (143 pp.
60. Keppie J.D. Plate tectonic interpretation of Paleozoic world maps (with emphasis on circum-Atlantic orogens and southern Nova Scotia) Nova Scotia Department of Mines Paper 77-3 1977 (45 pp.)
61. Keppie, J.D., 1982. Tectonic Map of Nova Scotia, Scales 1:500,000 and 1:2,000,000.
62. Keppie J.D. The Appalachian collage Gee D.G. Sturt B.A.book The Caledonide Orogen: Scandinavia and Related Areas 1985 1217-1226 J. Wyllie and Sons New York
63. Keppie J.D. Northern Appalachian terranes and their accretionary history Geological Society of America Special Paper 230 1989 159-192
64. Keppie J.D. Synthesis of Paleozoic deformational events and terrane accretion in the Canadian Appalachians Geologische Rundschau 82 1993 381-431
65. Keppie J.D. Pre-Mesozoic Geology in France and Related Areas 1994 Springer New York 514 pp.
66. Keppie J.D. Dostal J. Evaluation of the Baja controversy using paleomagnetic and faunal data, plume magmatism, and piercing points Tectonophysics 339 3-4 2001 427-442
67. Keppie J.D. Krogh T.E. Detrital zircon ages from Late Precambrian conglomerate, Avalon Composite Terrane, Antigonish Highlands, Nova Scotia Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs 22 1990 27-28
68. Keppie J.D. Krogh T.E. 440 Ma igneous activity in the Meguma terrane, Nova Scotia, Canada: part of the Appalachian overstep sequence? American Journal of Science 300 2000 528-538
69. Keppie J.D. Murphy J.B. Anatomy of a telescoped pull-apart basin: an example from the Cambro-Ordovician of the Antigonish Highlands Maritime Sediments and Atlantic Geology 24 1988 123-138
70. Keppie J.D. Ortega-Gutierrez F. Provenance of Mexican terranes: isotopic constraints International Geology Review 37 1995 813-824
71. Keppie J.D. Ortega-Gutérrez F. Middle American Precambrian basement: a missing part of the reconstructed 1 Ga orogen Ramos V.S. Keppie J.D. Laurentia-Gondwana Connections before Pangea Geological Society of America, Boulder, CO, Special Paper vol. 336 1999 199-210
72. Keppie J.D. Ramos V.A. Odyssey of terranes in the Iapetus and Rheic oceans during the Paleozoic Ramos V.A. Keppie J.D. Laurentia-Gondwana Connections before Pangea Geological Society of America, Boulder, CO, Special Paper vol. 336 1999 267-276
73. Keppie J.D. Dostal J. Murphy J.B. Nance R.D. Terrane transfer between eastern Laurentia and western Gondwana in the Early Paleozoic: constraints on global reconstructions Nance R.D. Thompson M.D. Avalonian and Related Peri-Gondwanan Terranes of the Circum-North Atlantic Geological Society of America, Boulder, CO, Special Paper vol. 304 1996 369-380
74. Keppie J.D. Davis D.W. Krogh T.E. U-Pb geochronological constraints on Precambrian stratified units in the Avalon composite terrane of Nova Scotia, Canada: tectonic implications Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences 35 1998 222-236
75. Keppie J.D. Dostal J. Dallmeyer R.D. Doig R. Superposed Neoproterozoic and Silurian magmatic arcs in central Cape Breton Island, Canada: geochemical and geochronological constraints Geological Magazine 137 2000 137-153
76. Keppie J.D. Dostal J. Ortega-Gutierrez F. Lopez R. A Grenvillian arc on the margin of Amazonia: evidence from the southern Oaxacan Complex, southern Mexico Precambrian Research 112 3-4 2001 165-181
77. Keppie, J.D., Dostal, J., Cameron, K.L., Solari, L.A., Ortega-Gutiérrez, F., Lopez, R., 2003. Geochronology and geochemistry of Grenvillian igneous suites in the northern Oaxacan Complex, southern México: tectonic implications. Precambrian Research122, 365-389.
78. Kriz J. Paris F. Ludlovian, Pridolian and Lockhovian in La Meignanne (Massif Armoricaine): biostratigraphy and correlations based on bivalvia and chitinozoa Geobios 15 3 1982 391-421
79. Krogh T.E. Keppie J.D. Age of detrital zircon and titanite in the Meguma Group, southern Nova Scotia, Canada: clues for the orgin of the Meguma Terrane Tectonophysics 177 1990 307-323
80. Krogh T.E. Kamo S.L. Sharpton B. Marin L. Hildebrand A.R. U-Pb ages of single shocked zircons linking distal K/T ejecta to the Chicxulub crater Nature 366 1993 731-734
81. Kröner, A., Stípská, P., Schulmann, K., Jaeckel, P., 2000. Chronological constraints on the pre-Variscan evolution of the northeastern margin of the Bohemian Massif, Czech Republic. In: Franke, W., Haak, V., Oncken, O., Tanner, D. (Eds.), OrogenicProcesses: Quantification and Modeling in the Variscan Belt. Geological Society, London, Special Publication, vol. 179, pp. 175-197.
82. Kröner, A., Jaeckel, P., Hegner, E., Opletal, M., 2001. Single zirconages and whole-rock Nd isotopic systematics of early Paleozoic granitoid gneisses from the Czech and Polish Sudetes (Jizerskéhory, Krkonose Mountains and Orlice-Scezník Complex). InternationalJournal of Earth Sciences (Geologische Rundschau) 90, 304-324.
83. Landing E. Avalon: insular continent by the latest Precambrian Nance R.D. Thompson M.D. Avalonian and Related Peri-Gondwanan Terranes of the Circum-North Atlantic Geological Society of America, Boulder, CO, Special Paper vol. 304 1996 29-63
84. Linnemann, U., Gehmlich, M., Tichomirowa, M., Buschmann, B., Nasdala, L., Jonas, P., Lützner, H., Bombach, K., 2000. From Cadomian subduction to Early Paleozoic rifting: the evolutionof Saxo-Thuringia at the margin of Gondwana in the light of single zircon geochronology and basin development (Central European Variscides, Germany. In: Franke, W., Haak, V., Oncken,O., Tanner, D. (Eds.), Orogenic Processes: Quantification and Modeling in the Variscan Belt. Geological Society, London, Special Publication, vol. 179, pp. 131-153.
85. Mac Niocaill C. van der Pluijm B.A. Van der Voo R. Ordovician paleogeography and the evolution of the Iapetus ocean Geology 25 1997 159-162
86. McNamara A.K. Mac Niocaill C. van der Pluijm B.A. Van der Voo R. West African proximity of Avalon in the latest Precambrian Geological Society of America Bulletin 113 2001 1161-1170
87. Miller J.D. Kent D.V. Paleomagnetism of the Siluro-Devonian Andreas redbeds: evidence of a Devonian supercontinent? Geology 16 1988 195-198
88. 39Ar ages from the Blair River Complex, northern Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia, Canada Geological Society of America Bulletin 108 1996 127-140
89. Molina-Garza, R.S., Van der Voo, R., Urrutia-Fucugauchi, J., 1992. Paleomagnetism of the Chiapas massif, southern México: evidence for rotation of the Maya block and implications for theopening of the Gulf of México. Geological Society of AmericaBulletin 104, 1156-1168.
90. Mueller P.A. Kozuch M. Heatherington A.L. Wooden J.L. Offield T.W. Koeppen R.P. Klein T.L. Nutman A.P. Evidence for Mesozporterozoic basement in the Carolina Terrane and speculations on its origin Nance R.D. Thompson M.D. Avalonian and Related Peri-Gondwanan Terranes of the Circum-North Atlantic Geological Society of America, Boulder, CO, Special Paper vol. 304 1996 207-218
91. Murphy J.B. MacDonald D.A. Geochemistry of late Proterozoic arc-related volcaniclastic turbidite sequences, Antigonish Highlands, Nova Scotia Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences 30 1993 2273-2282
92. Murphy J.B. Nance R.D. Model for the evolution of the Avalonian-Cadomian belt Geology 17 1989 735-738
93. Murphy J.B. Keppie J.D. Dostal J. Waldron J.W.F. Cude M.P. Geochemical and isotopic characteristics of Early Silurian clastic sequences in Antigonish Highlands, Nova Scotia, Canada: constraints on the accretion of Avalonia in the Appalachian-Caledonide Orogen Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences 33 1996 379-388
94. Murphy J.B. Keppie J.D. Dostal J. Nance R.D. Neoproterozoic-early Paleozoic evolution of Avalonia Ramos V.A. Keppie J.D. Laurentia-Gondwana Connections before Pangea Geological Society of America, Boulder, CO, Special Paper vol. 336 1999 253-266
95. Murphy J.B. Strachan R.A. Nance R.D. Parker K.D. Fowler M.B. Proto-Avalonia: a 1.2-1.0 Ga tectonothermal event and constraints for the evolution of Rodinia Geology 29 2000 1071-1075
96. Murphy J.B. Nance R.D. Keppie J.D. West African proximity of Avalon in the latest Precambrian by McNamara, A.K., Mac Niocaill, C., van der Pluijm, B.A., Van der Voo, R., 2001: discussion Geological Society of America Bulletin 114 2002 1049-1050
97. 39 Ar mineral age constraints for the tectonothermal evolution of the Green Head Group and Brookville Gneiss, southern New Brunswick, Canada: implications for the configuration of the Avalon composite terrane Geological Journal 29 1994 293-322
98. Nance R.D. Murphy J.B. Kinematic history of the Bass River Complex, Nova Scotia: Cadomian tectonostratigraphic relations in the Avalon terrane of the Canadian Appalachians D'Lemos R.S. Strachan R.A. Topley C.G. The Cadomian Orogeny Geological Society of London Special Publication vol. 51 1990 395-406
99. Nance R.D. Murphy J.B. Contrasting basement isotopic signatures and the palinspastic restoration of peripheral orogens: example from the Neoproterozoic Avalonian-Cadomian belt Geology 22 1994 617-620
100. Nance R.D. Murphy J.B. Basement isotopic signatures and Neoproterozoic paleogeography of Avalonian-Cadomian and related terranes in the circum-North Atlantic Nance R.D. Thompson M.D. Avalonian and Related Peri-Gondwanan Terranes of the Circum-North Atlantic Geological Society of America, Boulder, CO, Special Paper vol. 304 1996 333-346
101. Nance R.D. Thompson M.D. Avalonian and Related Peri-Gondwanan Terranes of the Circum-North Atlantic Geological Society of America, Boulder, CO, Special Paper vol. 304 1996
102. Nance R.D. Murphy J.B. Strachan R.A. D'Lemos R.S. Taylor G.K. Late Proterozoic tectonostratigraphic evolution of the Avalonian and Cadomian terranes Precambrian Research 53 1991 41-78
103. Nance R.D. Murphy J.B. Keppie J.D. A Cordilleran model for the evolution of Avalonia Tectonophysics 352 2002 11-31
104. Neuman R.B. Geology and paleobiology of islands in the Ordovician Iapetus Ocean: review and implications Geological Society of America Bulletin 94 1984 1188-1201
105. Nicholson C. Sorlien C.C. Atwater T. Crowell J.C. Luyendyk B.P. Microplate capture, rotation of the western transverse ranges, and initiation of the San Andreas transform as a low-angle fault system Geology 22 1994 491-495
106. Opdyke N.D. Jones D.S. McFadden B.J. Smith D.L. Mueller P.A. Shuster R.D. Florida as an exotic terrane: paleomagnetic and geochronologic investigation of lower Paleozoic rocks from the subsurface of Florida Geology 15 1987 900-903
107. Ortega-Gutiérrez F. Keppie J.D. Proterozoic Australia-Western United States (AUSWUS) fit between Laurentia and Australia: comment Geology 28 2000 863
108. Ortega-Gutiérrez F. Elias-Herrera M. Reyes-Salas M. López R. Late Ordovician-early Silurian continental collision orogeny in southern Mexico and its bearing on Gondwana-Laurentia connections Geology 27 1999 719-722
109. Ortega-Obregon, C., 2002. Geologia, geoquímica y Geocronología del granito Etla, en el Estado de Oaxaca. Licenciatura en Ingeniería Geologica Tesis. Universidad Nacional Automona de México. 108 pp.
110. Pickering K. Basset M.G. Siveter D.J. Late Ordovician-Early Silurian destruction of the Iapetus Ocean: Newfoundland, British Isles and Scandinavia-A discussion Transactions of Royal Society of Edinburgh 79 1988 361-382
111. Plafker G. Berg H.C. Overview of the geology and tectonic evolution of Alaska Plafker G. Berg H.C. The Geology of North America vol. G-1 1994 989-1021 Geological Society of America Boulder, CO
112. Potts S. Van der Pluijm B. Van der Voo R. Discordant Silurian paleolatitudes for central Newfoundland: new paleomagnetic evidence from the Springdale Group Earth and Planetary Science Letters 120 1993 1-12
113. Prigmore J.K. Butler A.J. Woodcock N.H. Rifting during separation of Eastern Avalonia from Gondwana: evidence from subsidence analysis Geology 25 1997 203-206
114. Protti M. Güendal F. McNally K. Correlation between the age of the subducting Cocos Plate and the geometry of the Wadati-Benioff zone under Nicaragua and Costa Rica Mann P. Geologic and Tectonic Development of the Caribbean Plate Boundary in Southern Central America Geological Society of America, Boulder, CO, Special Paper vol. 295 1995 309-326
115. Quesada C. Precambrian terranes in the Iberian Variscan foldbelt Strachan R.A. Taylor G.K. Avalonian and Cadomian Geology of the North Atlantic 1990 109-133 Blackie London
116. Quesada, C., 1997. Evolución geodinámica de la zona Ossa-Morenadurante el ciclo Cadomiense. In: Livro de Homenagem ao Prof. Francisco Goncalves: Estudio sobre a Geologia de zonade Ossa-Morena (Macico Ibérico). IGME, Madrid, Spain, pp. 205-230.
117. Rabu, D., Chantraine, J., Chauvel, J.J., Denis, E., Balé, P., Bardy, Ph., 1990. The Brioverian (Upper Proterozoic) and the Cadomianorogeny in the Armorican Massif. In: D'Lemos, R.S.,Strachan, R.A., Topley, C.G. (Eds.), The Cadomian Orogeny. Geological Society of London Special Publication, vol. 51, pp. 81-94.
118. Raeside R.P. Barr S.M. Geology and tectonic development of the Bras d'Or suspect terrane, Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences 27 1990 1371-1381
119. Ramos V.A. Keppie J.D. Laurentia-Gondwana Connections before Pangea Geological Society of America, Boulder, CO, Special Paper vol. 336 1999 276 pp.
120. Robardet M. Bonjour J.L. Paris F. Morzadec P. Racheboeuf P.R. The Variscan orogeny in the Armorica Massif: Ordovician, Silurian, and Devonian of the medio-north-Armorican domain Keppie J.D. Pre-Mesozoic Geology of France and Related Areas 1994 142-151 Springer Heidelberg, Germany
121. Robison R. Pantoja-Alor J. Tremadocian trilobites from Nochixtlan region, Oaxaca, Mexico Journal of Paleontology 42 1968 767-800
122. Ruiz, J., Tosdal, R.M., Restrepo, P.A., Marillo-Muneton, G.,1999. Pb isotope evidence for Colombia - southern México connections in the Proterozoic. In: Ramos, V.A., Keppie,J.D. (Eds.), Laurentia-Gondwana Connections before Pangea. Geological Society of America, Boulder, CO, Special Paper, vol. 336, pp. 183-198.
123. Samson S.D. D'Lemos R.S. U-Pb geochemistry and Sm-Nd isotopic composition of Proterozoic gneisses, Channel Islands, UK Journal of the Geological Society of London 155 1998 609-618
124. Samson S.D. Hibbard J.P. Wortman G.L. Nd isotopic evidence for juvenile crust in the Carolina terrane, southern Appalachians Contributions Mineralogy and Petrology 121 1995 171-184
125. Samson S.D. Secor D.T. Stern R. Provenance and paleogeography of Neoproterozoic circum-Atlantic arc-terranes: constraints from U-Pb ages of detrital zircons Geological Society of America Abstracts and Programs 31 7 1999 A-429
126. Samson S.D. Secor D.T. Hamilton M.A. Wandering Carolina: tracking exotic terranes with detrital zircons Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs 33 6 2001 A-263
127. Soper N.J. Strachan R.A. Holdsworth R.E. Gayer R.A. Greiling R.O. Sinistral transpression and the Silurian closure of Iapetus Geological Society of London Journal 149 1992 871-880
128. Sour-Tovar F. Quiroz-Barroso S.A. Navarro-Santillan D. Carboniferous invertebrates from Oaxaca, southern Mexico: mid-continent paleogeographic extension Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs 28 7 1996 A365
129. Stampfli G.M. Borel G.D. A plate tectonic model for the Paleozoic and Mesozoic constrained by dynamic plate boundaries and restored synthetic ocean isochrons Earth and Planetary Science Letters 196 2002 17-33
130. Stampfli G.M. Borel G. Cavazza W. Mosar J. Ziegler P.A. The paleotectonic atlas of the Peritethyan domain European Geophysical Society 2001 (CD ROM)
131. Steiner M.B. Walker J.D. Late Silurian plutons in Yucatan Journal of Geophysical Research 101 1996 17727-17735
132. Stewart, J.H., Blodgett, R.B., Boucot, A.J., Carter, J.L., Ló pez, R., 1999. Exotic Paleozoic strata of Gondwanan provenance near Ciudad Victoria, Tamaulipas, México. In: Ramos, V.A., Keppie, J.D. (Eds.), Laurentia-Gondwana Connections before Pangea. Geological Society of America, Boulder, CO, Special Paper, vol. 336, pp. 227-252.
133. Stock J.M. Hodges K.V. Pre-Pliocene extension around the Gulf of California and the transfer of Baja California to the Pacific plate Tectonics 8 1989 99-115
134. Strachan R.A. D'Lemos R.S. Dallmeyer R.D. Late Precambrian evolution of an active plate margin: North Armorican Massif, France Nance R.D. Thompson M.D. Avalonian and Related Peri-Gondwanan Terranes of the Circum-North Atlantic Geological Society of America, Boulder, CO, Special Paper vol. 304 1996 319-332
135. Tait J. Schätz M. Bachtadse V. Soffel H. Paleomagnetism and Paleozoic paleogeography of Gondwana and European terranes Franke W. Haak V. Oncken O. Tanner D. Orogenic Processes: Quantification and Modeling in the Variscan Belt Geological Society, London, Special Publication vol. 179 2000 21-34
136. Theokritoff G. Early Cambrian provincialism and biogeographic boundaries in the North Atlantic region Lethaia 12 1979 281-295
137. Thorkelson D.J. Taylor R.P. Cordilleran slab windows Geology 17 1989 833-836
138. Thorogood E.J. Provenance of the pre-Devonian sediments of England and Wales: Sm-Nd isotopic evidence Journal Geological Society of London 147 1990 591-594
139. Tichomirowa M. Berger H.J. Koch E.A. Belyatski B.V. Göttze J. Kempe U. Nasdala L. Schaltegger U. Zircon ages of high grade gneisses in the Eastern Ergebirge (Central European Variscides)-constraints on origin of the rocks and Precambrian to Ordovician magmatic events in the Variscan foldbelt Lithos 56 2001 303-332
140. Trench A. Torsvik T.H. The closure of the Iapetus Ocean and Tornquist Sea: new paleomagnetic constraints Journal Geological Society of London 149 1992 867-870
141. Van der Voo R. Paleomagnetism of the Atlantic, Tethys and Iapetus Oceans 1993 Cambridge Univ. Press Cambridge 411 pp.
142. Van Staal C.R. Sullivan R.W. Whalen J.B. Provenance and tectonic history of the Gander Zone in the Caledonian/Appalachian Orogen: implications for the origin and assembly of Avalon Nance R.D. Thompson M.D. Avalonian and Related peri-Gondwanan Terranes of the Circum-North Atlantic Geological Society of America, Boulder, CO, Special Paper vol. 304 1996 347-368
143. Van Staal C.R. Dewey J.F. Mac Niocaill C. McKerrow W.S. The Cambria-Silurian tectonic evolution of the northern Appalachians and British Caledonides: history of a complex, west and southwest Pacific-type segment of Iapetus Blundell D.J Scott A.C. Lyell: The Past is the Key to the Present Geological Society Special Publication vol. 143 1998 199-242
144. Vick H.K. Channell J.E.T. Opdyke N.D. Ordovician docking of the North Carolina Slate Belt: paleomagnetic data Tectonics 6 1987 573-583
145. Weber B. Köhler H. Sm/Nd, Rb/Sr, and U-Pb geochronology of a Grenville terrane in southern Mexico: origin and geologic history of the Guichicovi complex Precambrian Research 96 1999 245-262
146. Weil A.B. Ban der Voo R. van der Pluijm B. Oroclinal bending and evidence against the Pangea megashear: the Cantabrian-Asturias arc (northern Spain) Geology 29 2001 901-904
147. Wendt J.I. Kröner A. Fiala J. Todt W. Evidence from zircon dating for existence of approximately 2.1 Ga old crystalline basement in southern Bohemia, Czech Republic Geologische Rundschau 82 1993 42-50
148. Whittington H.B. Hughes C.P. Geography and faunal provinces in the Tremadoc epoch Society of Economic Paleontologists and Mineralogists Special Publication 21 1974 203-218
149. Williams H. The Appalachians in northeast Newfoundland-a two-sided symmetrical system American Journal of Science 262 1964 1137-1158
150. Williams H. The Appalachian Orogen in Canada Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences 16 1979 792-807
151. Williams S.H. Harper D.A.T. Neuman R.B. Boyce W.D. Mac Niocaill C. Lower Paleozoic fossils from Newfoundland and their importance in understanding the history of the Iapetus Ocean Hibbard J. van Staal C. Cawood P. Current Perspectives in the Appalachian-Caledonian Orogen vol. 41 1995 115-126 Geological Association Canada Special Paper Ottawa, Ontario
152. Wortman G.L. Samson S.D. Hibbard J.P. Precise U-Pb zircon constraints on the earliest magmatic history of the Carolina terrane Journal of Geology 108 2000 321-338