West Gondwana: Pre-Cenozoic correlations across the South Atlantic region
Product code: SP294
Print publication date: 25/01/2008
Geological Society of London, GSL Special Publications, Earth Structure Processes and Tectonics, Tectonics, Palaeogeography, Reduced while stocks last
Type: Book (Hardback)
Binding: Hardback
ISBN: 9781862392472
Author/Edited by: Edited by R J Pankhurst, R A J Trouw, B B Brito Neves and M J De Wit
Weight: 1.2kg
Number of pages: 430
Lyell Collection URL: https://www.lyellcollection.org/toc/sp/294/1
£19.99
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Special Publication 294
Some 75 years after the visionary work of Wegener and du Toit, Neoproterozoic to Mesozoic geological correlations between South America and Africa are re-examined in the light of plate tectonics and modern geological investigation (structural and metamorphic studies, stratigraphic logging, geochemistry, geochronology and palaeomagnetism). The book presents both reviews and new research relating to the shared Gondwana origins of countries facing each other across the South Atlantic Ocean, especially Brazil, Argentina, Cameroon, Nigeria, Angola, Namibia and South Africa. This is the first comprehensive treatment to be readily available in book form. It covers the common elements of cratonic areas pre-dating Gondwana, and how they came together in late Precambrian and Cambrian times with the formation of the Pan-African/Brasiliano orogenic belts (Dom Feliciano, Brasília, Ribeira, Damara, Gariep, Kaoko, etc.). The subsequent shared Palaeozoic and Mesozoic sedimentary record (Karoo system) prior to Gondwana break-up is also reviewed.
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Pre-Cenozoic correlations across the South Atlantic region: 'the ties that bind' M. J. De Wit, B. B. Brito Neves, R. A. J. Trouw, R. J. Pankhurst
Late Neoproterozoic and Early Cambrian palaeogeography: models and problems, S. A. Pisarevsky, J. B. Murphy, P. A. Cawood, A. S. Collins
Contemporaneous evolution of the Palaeoproterozoic/Mesoproterozoic sedimentary basins of the São Francisco–Congo Craton, A. J. Pedreira, B. De Waele
Geology of the northern Borborema Province, NE Brazil and its correlation with Nigeria, NW Africa, M. A. Arthaud, R. Caby, R. Fuck, E. L. Dantas, C. V. Parente
Proterozoic links between the Borborema Province, NE Brazil, and the Central African Fold Belt, W. R. Van Schmus, E. P. Oliveira, A. F. da Silva Filho, S. F. Toteu, J. Penaye, I. P. Guimaraes
Comparisons between the northwestern Borborema Province, NE Brazil, and the southwestern Pharusian Dahomey Belt, SW Central Africa, T. J. S. dos Santos, A. H. Fetter, J. A. N. Neto
Proterozoic evolution of the Nigeria-Boborema province, S. S. Dada
São Luís Craton and Gurupi Belt (Brazil): possible links with the West African Craton and surrounding Pan-African belts, E. L. Klein, C. A. V. Moura
Similarities and differences between the Brazilian and African counterparts of the Neoproterozoic Araçuaí–West Congo orogen, A. C. Pedrosa-Soares, F. F. Alkmim, L. Tack, C. M. Noce, M. Babinski, L. C. Silva, M. A. M. Neto
Sedimentary provenance and palaeoenvironment of the Baixo Araguaia Supergroup: constraints on the palaeogeographical evolution of the Araguaia Belt and assembly of West Gondwana, C. A. V. Moura, B. L. S. Pinheiro, C. R. Nogueira, P. S. S. Gorayeb, M. A. Galarza
Tectonic evolution of the Brasília Belt, Central Brazil, and early assembly of Gondwana, C. M. Valeriano, M. M. Pimentel, M. Heilbron, J. C. H. Almeida, R. A. J. Trouw
Correlation of Neoproterozoic terranes between the Ribeira Belt, SE Brazil and its African counterpart: comparative tectonic evolution and open questions, M. Heilbron, C. M. Valeriano, C. C. G. Tassinari, J. C. H. Almeida, M. Tupinamba, O. Siga Jr, R. A. J. Trouw
West Gondwana amalgamation based on detrital zircon ages from Neoproterozoic Ribeira and Dom Feliciano belts of South America and comparison with coeval sequences from SW Africa, M. A. S. Basei, H. E. Frimmel, A. P. Nutman, F. Preciozzi
A Damara orogen perspective on the assembly of southwestern Gondwana, D. R. Gray, D. A. Foster, J. G. Meert, B. Goscombe, R. Armstrong, R. A. J. Trouw, C. W. Passchier
Cambrian orogeny in the Ribeira Belt (SE Brazil) and correlations within West Gondwana: ties that bind underwater, R. S. Schmitt, R. A. J. Trouw, W. R. Van Schmus, C. W. Passchier
The Neoproterozoic Quatipuru ophiolite and the Araguaia fold belt, central-northern Brazil, compared with correlatives in northwest Africa, M. A. P. Paixao, A. A. Nilson, E. L. Dantas
Correlations between the classic Paraná and Cape–Karoo sequences of South America and southern Africa and their basin infills flanking the Gondwanides: du Toit revisited, E. J. Milani, M. J. De Wit
The Neoproterozoic glacial record in the Río de la Plata Craton: a critical reappraisal, P. J. Pazos, L. S. Bettucci, J. Loureiro
South Atlantic divergent margin evolution: rift-border uplift and salt tectonics in the basins of SE Brazil, W. U. Mohriak, M. Nemcok, G. Enciso
Restoring Pan-African – Brasiliano connections: more Gondwana control, less Trans-Atlantic corruption, M. J. De Wit, J. Stankiewicz, C. Reeves
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