The Lower Palaeozoic palaeogeographical evolution of the northeastern and eastern peri-Gondwanan margin from Turkey to New Zealand

Geological Society Special Publication

Volumn 325, Issue , 2009, Pages 3-21

  Torsvik, Trond H ^a,b,c   Cocks, L Robin M ^d  

^a GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF NORWAY   (Norway)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

^c UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

^d DEPARTMENT OF LIFE SCIENCES   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAMBRIAN; CRATON; FAUNA; GONDWANA; ISLAND ARC; ORDOVICIAN; PALEOGEOGRAPHY; PALEOMAGNETISM; PALEOZOIC; SILURIAN; TECTONIC SETTING; TECTONIC STRUCTURE; TETHYS;

AUSTRALIA; MALAYSIA; NEW ZEALAND; TURKEY;

EID: 74949124744     PISSN: 03058719     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1144/SP325.2     Document Type: Article

References (78)

1. Al-Hajri, S. & Paris, F. 1998. Age and palaeoenvironment of the Sharawra Member (Silurian of north-western Saudi Arabia). Geobios, 31, 3-12.
2. Allen, P. A. 2007. The Huqf Supergroup of Oman: basin development and context for Neoproterozoic glaciation. Earth-Science Reviews, 84, 139-185.
3. Angiolini, L. & Stephenson, M. H. 2008. Early Permian brachiopods and palynomorphs from the Dorud Group, Alborz Mountains, north Iran: new evidence for their palaeobiogeographical affinities. Fossils and Strata, 54, 117-132
4. Bassett, M. G., Dastanpour, M. & Popov, L. E. 1999. New data on Ordovician fauna and stratigraphy of the Kerman and Tabas regions, east-central Iran. Acta Universitatis Carolinae-Geologica, 43, 483-486.
5. Blieck, A. & Janvier, P. 1999. Silurian-Devonian vertebrate-dominated communities, with particular reference to agnathans. In: Boucot, A. J. & Lawson, J. D. (eds) Palaeocommunities: A Case Study from the Silurian and Lower Devonian. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 79-105.
6. Brock, G. A. & Yazdi, M. 2000. Palaeobiogeographic affinities of Late Devonian brachiopods from Iran. Records of the Western Australian Museum Supplement, 58, 321-334.
7. Cocks, L. R. M. 2000. The Early Palaeozoic geography of Europe. Journal of the Geological Society, London, 157, 1-10.
8. Cocks, L. R. M. & Cooper, R. A. 2004. Late Ordovician (Hirnantian) shelly fossils from New Zealand and their significance. New Zealand Journal of Geology and Geophysics, 47, 71-80.
9. Cocks, L. R. M. & Fortey, R. A. 1988. Lower Palaeozoic facies and faunas around Gondwana. In: Andley-Charles, M. G. & Hallam, A. (eds) Gondwana and Tethys. Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 37, 183-200.
10. Cocks, L. R. M. & Rong, J. 1989. Classification and review of the brachiopod superfamily Plectambonitacea. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) Geology, 45, 77-163.
11. Cocks, L. R. M. & Torsvik, T. H. 2002. Earth geography from 500 to 400 million years ago: a faunal and palaeomagnetic review. Journal of the Geological Society, London, 159, 631-644.
12. 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, 39-66.
13. Cocks, L. R. M. & Torsvik, T. H. 2007. Siberia, the wandering northern terrane, and its changing geography through the Palaeozoic. Earth-Science Reviews, 82, 29-74.
14. Cocks, L. R. M. & Zhan, R. 1998. Caradoc brachiopods from the Shan States, Burma (Myanmar). Bulletin of the Natural History Museum (Geology), 54, 109-130.
15. Cocks, L. R. M., Fortey, R. A. & Lee, C. P. 2005. A review of Lower and Middle Palaeozoic biostratigraphy in west Peninsular Malaysia and southern Thailand in its context within the Sibumasu Terrane. Journal of Asian Earth Sciences, 24, 703-717.
16. Cooper, R. A. 1989. Early Palaeozoic terranes of New Zealand. Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand, 19, 73-112.
17. Crawford, A. J. & Berry, R. F. 1992. Tectonic implications of Late Proterozoic-Early Palaeozoic igneous rock associations in western Tasmania. Tectonophysics, 214, 37-56.
18. Dean, W. T. & Monod, O. 1997. Cambrian development of the Gondwanaland margin in southeastern Turkey. Turkish Association of Petroleum Geologists Special Publication, 3, 67-74.
19. Dean, W. T., Monod, O., Rickards, R. B., Osman, D. & Bultynck, P. 2000. Lower Palaeozoic stratigraphy and palaeontology, Karadere-Zirze area, Pontus Mountains, northern Turkey. Geological Magazine, 137, 555-582.
20. El-Khayal, A. A. & Romano, M. 1985. A revision of the upper part of the Saq Formation and Hanadir Shale (lower Ordovician) of Saudi Arabia. Geological Magazine, 125, 161-174.
21. Fang, W., Van Der Voo, R. & Liang, Q. 1990. Ordovician paleomagnetism of Eastern Yunnan, China. Geophysical Research Letters, 17, 953-956.
22. Fortey, R. A. 1994. Late Cambrian trilobites from the Sultunate of Oman. Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie, Abhandlungen, 194, 25-53.
23. Fortey, R. A. 1997. Late Ordovician trilobites from southern Thailand. Palaeontology, 40, 397-449.
24. Fortey, R. A. & Cocks, L. R. M. 1986. Marginal faunal belts and their structural implications, with examples from the Lower Palaeozoic. Journal of the Geological Society, London, 143, 151-160.
25. Fortey, R. A. & Cocks, L. R. M. 2003. Faunal evidence bearing on global Ordovician-Silurian continental reconstructions. Earth-Science Reviews, 61, 245-307.
26. Fortey, R. A. & Morris, S. F. 1982. The Ordovician trilobite Neseuretus from Saudi Arabia, and the palaeogeography of the Neseuretus fauna related to Gondwanaland in the earlier Ordovician. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) Geology, 36, 63-75.
27. Gaetani, M. 1997. The Karakorum Block in Central Asia, from Ordovician to Cretaceous. Sedimentary Geology, 109, 339-359.
28. Ghobabipour, M., Williams, M., Vannier, J., Meidla, T. & Popov, L. E. 2006. Ordovician ostracods from east central Iran. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica, 51, 551-560.
29. Gray, D. R. & Foster, D. A. 2005. Australia: Tasman orogenic belt. In: Selley, R. C., Cocks,L. R. M. & Plimer, I. R. (eds) Encyclopedia of Geology, Vol. 1. Elsevier, Amsterdam, 237-251.
30. Hartz, E. H. & Torsvik, T. H. 2002. Baltica upside down: a new plate tectonic model for Rodinia and the Iapetus Ocean. Geology, 30, 255-258.
31. Huang, K., Opdyke, N. D. & Zhu, R. 2000. Further palaeomagnetic results from Silurian of the Yangtze Block and their implications. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 175, 191-202.
32. Hughes, N. C., Peng, S. & Luo, H. 2002. Kunmingaspis (Trilobita) putatively from the Yunling Collage, and the Cambrian history of the eastern Himalayan syntaxial region. Journal of Paleontology, 76, 709-717.
33. Jago, J. B., Sun, J. & Zang, W.-L. 2002. Correlation within early Palaeozoic basins of eastern South Australia. South Australia Minerals and Energy Resources Report Book, 2002/033, 1-22.
34. Li, Z. X. & Powell, C. M. 2001. An outline of the palaeogeographic evolution of the Australasian region since the beginning of the Neoproterozoic. Earth-Science Reviews, 53, 237-277.
35. Liu, D. 1976. Ordovician brachiopods from the Mount Jolmo Lungma region. In: A report of scientific expedition in the Mount Jolmo Lungma Region 1966-1968. Palaeontology, Fascicule 2. Science Press, Beijing, 139-158.
36. Meert, J. G. 2003. A synopsis of events related to the assembly of eastern Gondwanaland. Tectonophysics, 362, 1-40.
37. Metcalfe, I. 2002a. Tectonic history of the SE Asian-Australian region. Advances in Geoecology, 34, 29-48.
38. Metcalfe, I. 2002b. Permian tectonic framework and palaeogeography of SE Asia. Journal of Asian Earth Sciences, 20, 551-566.
39. Millson, J. A., Mercadier, C. G. L., Livera, S. E. & Peters, J. M. 1996. The Lower Palaeozoic of Oman and its context in the evolution of a Gondwanan continental margin. Journal of the Geological Society, London, 153, 213-230.
40. Monod, O., Kozlu, H., Ghienne, J.-F., Dean, W. T., Günay, Y., Le Hérissé, A. & Paris, F. 2003. Late Ordovician glaciation in southern Turkey. Terra Nova, 15, 249-257.
41. Münker, C. & Cooper, R. A. 1999. The Cambrian arc complex of the Takaka Terrane: an integrated stratigraphical, paleontological and geochemical approach. New Zealand Journal of Geology and Geophysics, 42, 415-445.
42. Myrow, P. M., Snell, K. E., Hughes, N. C., Paulsen, T. S., Heim, N. A. & Parcha, S. K. 2006a. Cambrian depositional history of the Zanskar Valley region of the Indian Himalaya: tectonic implications. Journal of Sedimentary Research, 76, 364-381.
43. Myrow, P. M., Thompson, K. R., Hughes, N. C., Paulsen, T. S., Sell, B. K. & Parcha, S. K. 2006b. Cambrian stratigraphy and depositional history of the northern Indian Himalaya, Spiti Valley, north-central India. Geological Society of America Bulletin, 118, 491-510.
44. Okay, A. L., Satir, M. & Siebel, W. 2006. Pre-Alpide Palaeozoic and Mesozoic orogenic events in the Eastern Mediterranean region. In: Gee, D. G. & Stephenson, R. A. (eds) European Lithosphere Dynamics. Geological Society, London, Memoirs, 32, 389-405.
45. Opdyke, N. D., Huang, K., Xu, G., Zhang, W. Y. & Kent, D. V. 1987. Paleomagnetic results from the Silurian of the Yangtze platform. Tectonophysics, 139, 123-132.
46. Parcha, S. K. 1996. Cambrian sequences in the Tethyan zone of Spiti Himalaya and its boundary problems. Newsletters in Stratigraphy, 34, 3-11.
47. Percival, I. G. 1991. Late Ordovician articulate brachiopods from central New South Wales. Association of Australasian Palaeontologists Memoirs, 12, 107-177.
48. Pickett, J. W., Burrow, C. J., Holloway,D.J.et al. 2000. Silurian palaeobiogeography of Australia. Association of Australasian Palaeontologists Memoirs, 23, 127-165.
49. Popov, L. E. & Cocks, L. R. M. 2006. Late Ordovician brachiopods from the Dulankara Formation of the Chu-Ili Range, Kazakhstan: their systematics, palaeoecology and palaeobiogeography. Palaeontology, 49, 247-283.
50. Quintavalle, M., Tongiorgi, M. & Gaetani, M. 2000. Lower to Middle Ordovician acritarchs and chitinozoans from northern Karakorum Mountains, Pakistan. Revista Italiana di Paleontologia e Stratigrafia, 106, 3-18.
51. Ramezani, J. & Tucker, R. D.2003.TheSaghandregion, central Iran: U-Pb geochronology, petrogenesis and implications for Gondwana tectonics. American Journal of Science, 303, 622-665.
52. Robardet, M. 2003. The Armorica 'microplate': fact or fiction? Critical review of the concept and contradictory palaeobiogeographical data. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 195, 125-148.
53. Rong, J., Boucot, A. J., Su, Y. & Strusz, D. L. 1995. Biogeographical analysis of late Silurian brachiopod faunas, chiefly from Asia and Australia. Lethaia, 28, 39-60.
54. Rong, J., Chen, X., Su, Y. et al. 2003. Silurian palaeogeography of China. New York State Museum Bulletin, 493, 243-298.
55. Ruban, D. A., AL-Husseini, M. I. & Iwasaki, Y. 2007. Review of Middle East Palaeozoic plate tectonics. GeoArabia, 12, 35-56.
56. Salter, J. W. & Blanford, H. F. 1865. Palaeontology of Niti in the Northern Himalayas: being descriptions and figures of the Palaeozoic and Secondary fossils. Calcutta.
57. Schallreuter, R., Hinz-Schallreuter, H., Balini, M. & Feretti, A. 2006. Late Ordovician Ostracoda from Iran and their significance for palaeogeographical reconstructions. Zeitschrift für Geologische Wissenschaft, Berlin, 34, 750-761.
58. Sharland, P. R., Archer, R., Casey, D. M.et al. 2001. Arabian Plate sequence stratigraphy. GeoArabia (Special Publication), 2, 1-369.
59. Shergold, J. H. 1988. Review of trilobite biofacies at the Cambrian-Ordovician boundary. Geological Magazine, 125, 363-380.
60. Stampfli, G. M. & Borel, G. 2002. A plate tectonic model for the Paleozoic and Mesozoic constrained by dynamic plate boundaries and restored synthetic oceanic isochrons. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 196, 17-33.
61. Stampfli, G. M. & Borel, G. 2004. The Transmed transects in space and time: constraints on the paleotectonic evolution of the Mediterranean Domain. In: Cavazza, W., Roure, F., Spakman, W., Stamp-Fli, G. M. & Ziegler, P. A. (eds) The Transmed Atlas: the Mediterranean Region from Crust to Mantle. Springer, Berlin, 53-80.
62. Stampfli, G. M., Mosar, J., Favre, P., Pillevuit, A. & Vannay, J.-C. 2001. Permo-Mesozoic evolution of the western Tethys realm: the NeoTethys/east Mediterranean basin connection. In: Bouchet, P. & Mar-Shall, B. (eds) Peri-Tethyan Rift/Wrench Basins and Passive Margins. Peri-Tethys Memoir, 6, 51-108.
63. Stump, T. E., Al-Hajri, S. & Van Der Eem, J. G. L. A. 1995. Geology and biostratigraphy of the Late Precambrian through Palaeozoic sediments of Saudi Arabia. Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology, 89, 5-17.
64. Talent, J. A. & Bhargava, O. N. 2003. Silurian of the Indian subcontinent and adjacent regions. New York State Museum Bulletin, 493, 221-239.
65. Talent, J. A., Gaetani, M., Mawson, R., Molloy, P. D. & Conaghan, P. J. 1999. Early Ordovician and Devonian conodonts from the Western Karakoram and Hindu Kush, northernmost Pakistan. Revista Italiana di Paleontologia e Stratigrafia, 105, 201-230.
66. Talent, J. A., Mawson, R. & Simpson, A. 2003. Silurian of Australia and New Guinea: biostratigraphic correlations and paleogeography. New York State Museum Bulletin, 493, 181-219.
67. Torsvik, T. H. & Cocks, L. R. M. 2004. Earth geography from 400 to 250 Ma: a palaeomagnetic, faunal and facies review. Journal of the Geological Society, London, 161, 555-572.
68. Torsvik, T. H. & Van Der Voo, R. 2002. Refining Gondwana and Pangea palaeogeography: estimates of Phanerozoic non-dipole (octupole) field. Geophysical Journal International, 151, 771-794.
69. Torsvik, T. H., Müller, R. D., Van Der Voo, R., Steinberger, B. & Gaina, C. 2009a. Global plate motion frames: toward a unified model. Reviews of Geophysics, 46, 1-44.
70. Torsvik, T. H., Paulsen, T. S., Hughes, N. C., Myrow, P. M. & Ganerød, M. 2009b. The Tethyan Himalaya: palaeogeographical and tectonic constraints from Ordovician palaeomagnetic data. Journal of the Geological Society London, 166, 679-687.
71. Veevers, J. J. 2004. Gondwanaland from 650-500 Ma assembly through 320 Ma merger in Pangea to 185-100 Ma breakup: supercontinental tectonics via stratigraphy and radiometric dating. Earth-Science Reviews, 68, 1-132.
72. Von Raumer, J. F., Stampfli, G. M., Borel, G. & Bussy, F. 2002. The organisation of pre-Variscan basement areas in the north-Gondwanan margin. International Journal of Earth Sciences, 91, 35-52.
73. Webby, B. D., Percival, I. G., Edgecombe, G. D. et al. 2000. Ordovician palaeobiogeography of Australasia. Association of Australasian Palaeontologists Memoirs, 23, 63-126.
74. Wright, A. J., Young, G. C., Talent, J. A. & Laurie, J. R. 2000. Palaeobiogeographic affinities of Australian Cambrian faunas. Association of Australasian Palaeontologists Memoirs, 23, 1-61.
75. Yang, Z., Sun, Z., Yang, T. & Pei, J. 2004. A long connection (750-380 Ma) between South China and Australia: paleomagnetic constraints. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 220, 423-434.
76. Zhou, Z. & Chen, X. (eds) 1992. Biostratigraphy and Geological Evolution of Tarim. Science Press, Beijing.
77. Zhou, Z. & Dean, W. T. (eds) 1996. Phanerozoic Geology of Northwest China. Science Press, Beijing.
78. Zhou, Z., Luo, H., Zhou, Z. & Yuan, W. 2001. Palaeontological constraints on the extent of the Ordovician Indo-China terrane in Western Yunnan. Acta Palaeontologica Sinica, 40, 310-317 [in Chinese with English summary].