Kinematic evolution of the Araçuaí-West Congo orogen in Brazil and Africa: Nutcracker tectonics during the Neoproterozoic assembly of Gondwana

Precambrian Research

Volumn 149, Issue 1-2, 2006, Pages 43-64

  Alkmim, Fernando F ^a   Marshak, Stephen ^b   Pedrosa Soares, Antônio Carlos ^c   Peres, Guilherme Gravina ^a   Cruz, Simone Cerqueira Pereira ^a   Whittington, Alan ^d  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF OURO PRETO   (Brazil)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^c FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF MINAS GERAIS   (Brazil)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

Author keywords

Ara ua orogen; Brasiliano Pan African orogenies; Collisional tectonics; Confined orogen; Neoproterozoic; West Congo belt; West Gondwana

Indexed keywords

CONTINENTAL DRIFT; KINEMATICS; MAGMA; MESOZOIC; OROGENIC BELT; TECTONIC EVOLUTION;

AFRICA; ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (SOUTH); BRAZIL; SOUTH AMERICA;

EID: 33746913946     PISSN: 03019268     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.precamres.2006.06.007     Document Type: Article

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