Was Baltica right-way-up or upside-down in the Neoproterozoic?

Journal of the Geological Society

Volumn 163, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 753-759

  Cawood, Peter A ^a   Pisarevsky, Sergei A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BALTICA; PROTEROZOIC; RODINIA; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY;

EID: 33748653202     PISSN: 00167649     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1144/0016-76492005-126     Document Type: Article

References (82)

1. Åhall, K.-I. & Connelly, J. 1998. Intermittent 1.53-1.13 Ga magmatism in western Baltica; age constraints and correlations within a postulated supercontinent. Precambrian Research, 92(1), 1-20.
2. Aleinikoff, J.N., Zartman, R.E., Walter, M., Rankin, D.W., Lyttle, P.T. & Burton, W.C. 1995. U-Pb ages of metarhyolites of the Catoctin and Mount Rogers formations, central and southern Appalachians: evidence for two phases of Iapetan rifting. American Journal of Science, 295, 428-454.
3. Bingen, B., Demaiffe, D. & van Breemen, O. 1998. The 616 Ma old Egersund basaltic dike swarm, S.W. Norway and Late Neoproterozoic opening of the Iapetus Ocean. Journal of Geology, 106, 565-574.
4. Bingen, B., Griffin, W.L., Torsvik, T.H. & Saeed, A. 2005. Timing of Late Neoproterozoic glaciation on Baltica constrained by detrital zircon geochronology in the Hedmark Group, south-east Norway. Terra Nova, 17(3), 250-258.
5. Buchan, K.L., Mertanen, S., Park, R.G., Pesonen, L.J., Elming, S.-A., Abrahamsen, N. & Bylund, G. 2000. Comparing the drift of Laurentia and Baltica in the Proterozoic: the importance of key palaeomagnetic poles. Tectonophysics, 319(3), 167-198.
6. Cawood, P.A., McCausland, P.J.A. & Dunning, G.R. 2001. Opening Iapetus: constraints from the Laurentian margin in Newfoundland. Geological Society of America Bulletin, 113, 443-453.
7. Cawood, P.A., Nemchin, A.A., Smith, M. & Loewy, S. 2003. Source of the Dalradian Supergroup constrained by U/Pb dating of detrital zircon and implications for the East Laurentian margin. Journal of the Geological Society, London, 160, 231-246.
8. Cawood, P.A., Nemchin, A.A., Strachan, R.A., Kinny, P.D. & Loewy, S. 2004. Laurentian provenance and an intracratonic tectonic setting for the Moine Supergroup, Scotland, constrained by detrital zircons from the Loch Eil and Glen Urquhart successions. Journal of the Geological Society, London, 161, 861-874.
9. Cocks, L.R.M. & Torsvik, T.H. 2005. Baltica from the late Precambrian to mid-Palaeozoic times: the gain and loss of a terrane's identity. Earth-Science Reviews, 72(1-2), 39-66.
10. Compston, W., Sambridge, M.S., Reinfrank, R.F., Moczydlowska, M., Vidal, G. & Claesson, S. 1995. Numerical ages of volcanic rocks and the earliest faunal zone within the late Precambrian of east Poland. Journal of the Geological Society, London, 152, 599-611.
11. Dalziel, I.W.D. 1992. On the organization of American plates in the Neoproterozoic and the breakout of Laurentia. GSA Today, 2, 237-241.
12. Dalziel, I.W.D. 1994. Precambrian Scotland as a Laurentia-Gondwana link: origin and significance of cratonic promontories. Geology, 22, 589-592.
13. Dalziel, I.W.D. 1997. Neoproterozoic-Paleozoic geography and tectonics: review, hypothesis, environmental speculation. Geological Society of America Bulletin, 109, 16-42.
14. Dankers, P. & Lapointe, P. 1981. Paleomagnetism of Lower Cambrian volcanics and a cross-cutting Cambro-Ordovician diabase dyke from Buckingham (Quebec). Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences, 18, 1174-1186.
15. Deutsch, E.R. & Rao, K.V. 1977. New palaeomagnetic evidence fails to support rotation of western Newfoundland. Nature, 266, 314-318.
16. Evans, D.A.D. 2003. A fundamental Precambrian-Phanerozoic shift in Earth's glacial style? Tectonophysics, 375(1-4), 353-385.
17. Fedonkin, M.A. 1981. Belomorskaya biota Venda. Nauka, Moscow.
18. Gorokhov, I.M., Siedlecka, A., Roberts, D., Melnikov, N.N. & Turchenko, T.L. 2001. Rb-Sr dating of diagenetic illite in Neoproterozoic shales, Varanger Peninsula, northern Norway. Geological Magazine, 138, 541-562.
19. Gower, C.F., Rivers, T. & Ryan, A.B. 1990. Mid-Proterozoic Laurentia-Baltica: an overview of its geological evolution and a summary of the contributions made by this volume. In: Gower, C.F., Rivers, T. & Ryan, A.B (eds) Mid-Proterozoic Laurentia-Baltica. Geological Association of Canada, Toronto, Ont., 1-22.
20. Grazhdankin, D. 2004. Late Neoproterozoic sedimentation in the Timan foreland. In: Gee, D.G. & Pease, V.L. (eds) The Neoproterozoic Timanide Orogen of Eastern Baltica. Geological Society, London, Memoirs, 30, 37-46.
21. Greiling, R.O., Jensen, S. & Smith, A.G. 1999. Vendian-Cambrian subsidence of the passive margin of western Baltica - application of new stratigraphic data from the Scandinavian Caledonian margin. Norsk Geologisk Tidsskrift, 79, 133-144.
22. 39Ar dating of plagioclase in dolerite dykes, eastern Varanger Peninsula, North Norway. Norges Geologiske Undersøkelse, 440, 27-36.
23. Harland, W.B. 1997. The Geology of Svalbard. Geological Society London, Memoirs, 17.
24. Hartz, E. & Torsvik, T.H. 2002. Baltica upside down: a new plate tectonic model for Rodinia and the Iapetus Ocean. Geology, 30, 255-258.
25. Higgins, M.D. & van Breemen, O. 1998. The age of the Sept Iles layered mafic intrusion, Canada: implications for the Late Neoproterozoic/Cambrian history of southeastern Canada. Journal of Geology, 106, 421-431.
26. Hodych, J.P., Cox, R.A. & Košler, J. 2004. An equatorial Laurentia at 550 Ma confirmed by Grenvillian inherited zircons dated by LAM ICP-MS in the Skinner Cove volcanics of western Newfoundland: implications for inertial interchange true polar wander. Precambrian Research, 129, 93-113.
27. Hoffman, P.F. 1991. Did the breakout of Laurentia turn Gondwanaland inside-out? Science, 252, 1409-1412.
28. Iglesia Llanos, M.P., Tait, J.A., Popov, V. & Ablamasova, A. 2005. Palaeomagnetic data from Ediacaran (Vendian) sediments of the Arkhangelsk region, NW Russia: an alternative apparent polar wander path of Baltica for the Late Proterozoic-Early Palaeozoic. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 240, 732-747.
29. Kamo, S.L. & Gower, C.F. 1994. U-Pb baddeleyite dating clarifies age of characteristic paleomagnetic remanence of Long Range dykes, southeastern Labrador. Atlantic Geology, 30, 259-262.
30. Karlstrom, K.E., Ahall, K.I., Harlan, S.S., Williams, M.L., McLelland, J. & Geissman, J.W. 2001. Long-lived (1.8-1.0 Ga) convergent orogen in southern Laurentia, its extensions to Australia and Baltica, and implications for refining Rodinia. Precambrian Research, 111(1-4), 5-30.
31. Khain, V.E. 1985. Geology of the USSR, First Part: Old Cratons and Paleozoic Fold Belts. Borntraeger, Berlin.
32. Kostyuchenko, S.L., Morozov, A.F. & Stephenson, R.A. et al. 2004. The evolution of the southern margin of the East European Craton based on seismic and potential field data. Tectonophysics, 381(1-4), 101-118.
33. Larionov, A.N., Andreichev, V.A. & Gee, D.G. 2004. The Vendian alkaline igneous suite of northern Timan: ion microprobe U-Pb zircon ages of gabbros and syenite. In: Gee, D.G. & Pease, V.L. (eds) The Neoproterozoic Timanide Orogen of Eastern Baltica. Geological Society, London, Memoirs, 30, 69-74.
34. Lewandowski, M. & Abrahamsen, N. 2003. Paleomagnetic results from the Cambrian and Ordovician sediments of Bornholm (Denmark) and Southern Sweden and paleogeographical implications for Baltica. Journal of Geophysical Research, 108, 2516(B11), doi:10.1029/2002JB002281.
35. Lobkovsky, L.I., Cloetingh, S. & Nikishin, A.M. et al. 1996. Extensional basins of the former Soviet Union - structure, basin formation mechanisms and subsidence history. Tectonophysics, 266(1-4), 251-285.
36. Loewy, S., Connelly, J.N., Dalziel, I.W.D. & Gower, C.F. 2003. East Laurentia in Rodinia: constraints from whole-rock Pb and U/Pb geochronology. Tectonophysics, 375, 169-197.
37. Martin, M.W., Grazhdankin, D.V., Bowring, S.A., Evans, D.A.D., Fedonkin, M.A. & Kirschvink, J.L. 2000. Age of Neoproterozoic bilatarian body and trace fossils, White Sea, Russia: implications for metazoan evolution. Science, 288, 841-845.
38. Maslov, A.V. & Isherskaya, M.V. 2002. Riphean sedimentary sequences of the eastern and northeastern margins of the Eastern European craton. Russian Journal of Earth Sciences, 4, 271-276.
39. Maslov, A.V., Erdtmann, B.D., Ivanov, K.S., Ivanov, S.N. & Krupenin, M.T. 1997. The main tectonic events, depositional history, and the palaeogeography of the southern Urals during the Riphean-early Palaeozoic. Tectonophysics, 276(1-4), 313-335.
40. McCausland, P.J.A. & Hodych, J.P. 1998. Palaeomagnetism of the 550 Ma Skinner Cove volcanics of western Newfoundland and opening of the Iapetus Ocean. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 163, 15-29.
41. McElhinny, M.W. & McFadden, P.L. 2000. Paleomagnetism, Continents and Oceans. Academic Press, San Diego, CA.
42. Meert, J.G. & Torsvik, T.H. 2003. The making and unmaking of a supercontinent: Rodinia revisited. Tectonophysics, 375, 261-288.
43. Meert, J.G. & Van der Voo, R. 2001. Comment on 'New palaeomagnetic result from Vendian red sediments in Cisbaikalia and the problem of the relationship of Siberia and Laurentia in the Vendian' by S. A. Pisarevsky, R. A. Komissarova and A. N. Khramov. Geophysical Journal International, 146, 867-870.
44. Meert, J.G., Van der Voo, R. & Payne, T.W. 1994. Paleomagnetism of the Catoctin volcanic province: a new Vendian - Cambrian apparent polar wander path for North America. Journal of Geophysical Research, 99, 4625-4641.
45. Meert, J.G., Torsvik, T.H., Eide, E.A. & Dahlgren, S. 1998. Tectonic significance of the Fen province, S. Norway: constraints from geochronology and paleomagnetism. Journal of Geology, 106, 553-564.
46. Murthy, G., Gower, C.F., Turbett, M. & Pätzold, R. 1992. Paleomagnetism of Eocambrian Long Range dykes and Double Mer Formation from Labrador, Canada. Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences, 29, 1224-1234.
47. Nawrocki, J., Boguckij, A. & Katinas, V. 2004. New late Vendian palaeogeography of Baltica and TESZ. Geological Quarterly, 48, 309-316.
48. Nikishin, A.M., Ziegler, P.A. & Stephenson, R.A. et al. 1996. Late Precambrian to Triassic history of the East European Craton: dynamics of sedimentary basin evolution. Tectonophysics, 268(1-4), 23-63.
49. Nosova, A.A., Veretennikov, N.V. & Levsky, L.K. 2005. Nature of the mantle source and specific features of crustal contamination of Neoproterozoic flood basalts of the Volhynia Province (Nd-Sr isotopic and ICP-MS geochemical data). Transactions (Doklady) of the Russian Academy of Sciences, 401A, 492-433.
50. Nystuen, J.P. & Siedlecka, A. 1988. The 'Sparagmites' of Norway, In: Winchester, J.A. (ed.) Later Proterozoic Stratigraphy of the Northern Atlantic Regions. Blackie, Glasgow, 237-252.
51. Park, R.G. 1992. Plate kinematic history of Baltica during the Middle to Late Proterozoic: a model. Geology, 20, 725-728.
52. Pisarevsky, S.A., Komissarova, R.A. & Khramov, A.N. 2000. New palaeomagnetic result from Vendian red sediments in Cisbaikalia and the problem of the relationship of Siberia and Laurentia in the Vendian. Geophysical Journal International, 140, 598-610.
53. Pisarevsky, S.A., Komissarova, R.A. & Khramov, A.N. 2001. Reply to comment J. G. Meert and R. Van der Voo on 'New palaeomagnetic result from Vendian red sediments in Cisbaikalia and the problem of the relationship of Siberia and Laurentia in the Vendian'. Geophysical Journal International, 146, 871-873.
54. Pisarevsky, S.A., Wingate, M.T.D., Powell, C.M., Johnson, S. & Evans, D.A.D. 2003. Models of Rodinia assembly and fragmentation. In: Yoshida, M., Windley, B.F. & Dasgupta, S. (eds) Proterozoic East Gondwana: Supercontinent Assembly and Breakup. Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 206, 35-55.
55. Poorter, R.P.E. 1972. Palaeomagnetism of the Rogaland Precambrian (southwestern Norway), Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors, 5, 167-176.
56. Popov, V., Iosifidi A., Khramov, A., Tait, J. & Bachtadse, V. 2002. Paleomagnetism of Upper Vendian sediments from the Winter Coast, White Sea region, Russia: implications for the paleogeography of Baltica during Neoproterozoic times. Journal of Geophysical Research, 107(B11, 2315), doi: 10.1029/2001JB001607.
57. Popov, V., Khramov, A. & Bachtadse, V. 2005. Palaeomagnetism, magnetic stratigraphy, and petromagnetism of the Upper Vendian sedimentary rocks in the sections of the Zolotitsa River and in the Verkhotina Hole, Winter Coast of the White Sea, Russia. Russian Journal of Earth Sciences, 7(2), 1-29.
58. Poprawa, P., Sliaupa, S., Stephenson, R. & Lazauskiene, J. 1999. Late Vendian-Early Palaeozoic tectonic evolution of the Baltic Basin: regional tectonic implications from subsidence analysis. Tectonophysics, 314(1-3), 219-239.
59. Pringle, R. 1973. Rb-Sr age determinations on shales associated with the Varanger Ice Age. Geological Magazine, 109, 465-472.
60. Roberts, D. & Siedlecka, A. 2002. Timanian orogenic deformation along the northeastern margin of Baltica, Northwest Russia and Northeast Norway, and Avalonian-Cadomian connections. Tectonophysics, 352(1-2), 169-184.
61. Scarrow, J.H., Pease, V., Fleutelot, C. & Dushin, V. 2001. The late Neoproterozoic Enganepe ophiolite, Polar Urals, Russia: an extension of the Cadomian arc? Precambrian Research, 110(1-4), 255-275.
62. Shipunov, S.V. 1988. Stratigraphic consistency criterion in paleomagnetic studies. Izvestia, Earth Physics, 24, 421-425.
63. Shipunov, S.V. & Chumakov, N.M. 1991. Paleomagnetism of Upper Proterozoic deposits of the Kola Peninsula. Geotectonics, 25, 401-410.
64. Siedlecka, A., Roberts, D., Nystuen, J.P. & Olovyanishnikov, V.G. 2004. Northeastern and northwestern margins of Baltica in Neoproterozoic time: evidence from the Timanian and Caledonian Orogens. In: Gee, D.G. & Pease, V.L. (eds) The Neoproterozoic Timanide Orogen of Eastern Baltica. Geological Society, London, Memoirs, 30, 169-190.
65. Smethurst, M.A., Khramov, A.N. & Torsvik, T.H. 1998. The Neoproterozoic and Palaeozoic palaeomagnetic data for the Siberian Platform: from Rodinia to Pangea. Earth-Science Reviews, 43, 1-24.
66. Stearn, J.E.F. & Piper, J.D.A. 1984. Palaeomagnetism of the Sveconorwegian mobile belt of the Fennoscandian Shield. Precambrian Research, 23(3-4), 201-246.
67. Storetvedt, K.M. 1966. Remanent magnetization of some dolerite intrusions in the Egersund area, southern Norway, 26, 1-17.
68. 39Ar dating of the Long Range dikes, Newfoundland. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 22, 256-266.
69. Svenningsen, O.M. 1994. Tectonic significance of the meta-evaporitic magnesite and scapolite deposits in the Seve Nappes, Sarek Mts., Swedish Caledonides. Tectonophysics, 231(1-3), 33-44.
70. Symons, D.T.A. & Chiasson, A.D. 1991. Paleomagnetism of the Callander Complex and the Cambrian apparent polar wander path for North America. Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences, 28, 355-363.
71. Tanczyk, E.I., Lapointe, P., Morris, W.A. & Schmidt, P.W. 1987. A paleomagnetic study of the layered mafic intrusion at Sept-Iles, Quebec. Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences, 24, 1431-1438.
72. Tohver, E., van der Pluijm, B.A., van der Voo, R., Rizzotto, G. & Scandolara, J.E. 2002. Paleogeography of the Amazon craton at 1.2 Ga early Grenvillian collision with the Llano segment of Laurentia. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 199, 185-200.
73. Tohver, E., van der Pluijm, B.A., Mezger, K., Essene, E.J., Scandolara, J.E. & Rizzotto, G. 2004. Significance of the Nova Brasilândia metasedimentary belt in western Brazil: redefining the Mesoproterozoic boundary of the Amazon craton. Tectonics, 23, doi:10.1029/2003TC001563.
74. Torsvik, T.H. & Rehnström, E.F. 2001. Cambrian palaeomagnetic data from Baltica: implications for true polar wander and Cambrian palaeogeography. Journal of the Geological Society, London, 158, 321-329.
75. Torsvik, T.H., Lohmann, K.C. & Sturt, B.A. 1995. Vendian glaciations and their relation to the dispersal of Rodinia: paleomagnetic constraints. Geology, 23, 727-730.
76. Torsvik, T.H., Smethurst, M.A. & Meert, J.G. et al. 1996. Continental breakup and collision in the Neoproterozoic and Paleozoic - a tale of Baltica and Laurentia. Earth-Science Reviews, 40, 229-258.
77. Van Alstine, D.R. & Gillett, S.L. 1979. Paleomagnetism of Upper Precambrian sedimentary rocks from the Desert Range, Nevada. Journal of Geophysical Research, 84, 4490-4500.
78. Van der Voo, R. 1990. The reliability of paleomagnetic data. Tectonophysics, 184(1), 1-9.
79. Weil, A.B., Van der Voo, R., Mac Niocaill, C. & Meert, J.G. 1998. The Proterozoic supercontinent Rodinia: paleomagnetically derived reconstructions for 1100 to 800 Ma. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 154, 13-24.
80. Willner, A.P., Ermolaeva, T. & Stroink, L. et al. 2001. Contrasting provenance signals in Riphean and Vendian sandstones in the SW Urals (Russia): constraints for a change from passive to active continental margin conditions in the Neoproterozoic. Precambrian Research, 110(1-4), 215-239.
81. Winchester, J.A. 1988. Later Proterozoic environments and tectonic evolution in the northern Atlantic lands. In: Winchester, J.A. (ed.) Later Proterozoic Stratigraphy of the Northern Atlantic Regions. Blackie, Glasgow, 253-270.
82. Wingate, M.T.D., Pisarevsky, S.A. & Evans, D.A.D. 2002. Rodinia connections between Australia and Laurentia: no SWEAT, no AUSWUS? Terra Nova, 14, 121-128.