Pannotia to Pangaea Neoproterozoic and Paleozoic Orogenic Cycles in the Circum-Atlantic Region

About this book

This volume celebrates the career of R. Damian Nance. It features 27 articles, with more than 110 authors based in 18 different countries. These articles include contributions on the processes responsible for the formation and breakup of supercontinents, the controversies concerning the status of Pannotia as a supercontinent, the generation and destruction of Paleozoic oceans, and the development of the Appalachian-Ouachitan-Caledonide-Variscan orogens. In addition to field work, the approaches to gain that understanding include examining the relationships between stratigraphy and structural geology, precise geochronology, geochemical and isotopic fingerprinting, geodynamic modelling, regional syntheses, palaeogeographic modelling, and good old-fashioned arm-waving.

The wide range of topics mirrors the breadth and depth of Damian's contributions, interests and expertise. Like Damian's papers, the contributions range from the predominantly conceptual to detailed field work, but all are targeted at understanding important tectonic processes. Their scope not only varies in scale from global to regional to local, but also in the range of approaches required to gain that understanding.

Contents

- Damian Nance: a biography and appreciation / Murphy, B., Strachan, R. and Quesada, C. R.
- Pannotia to Pangaea: Neoproterozoic and Paleozoic Orogenic Cycles in the Circum-Atlantic Region: A celebration of the career of Damian Nance / Murphy, J. B., Strachan, R. A. and Quesada, C.
- Pannotia: in defence of its existence and geodynamic significance / Murphy, J. B., Nance, R. D., Cawood, P. A., Collins, W. J., Dan, W., Doucet, L. S., Heron, P. J., Li, Z.-X., Mitchell, R. N., Pisarevsky, S., Pufahl, P. K., Quesada, C., Spencer, C. J., Strachan, R. A. and Wu, L.
- Pannotia’s mantle signature: the quest for supercontinent identification / Heron, P. J., Murphy, J. B., Nance, R. D. and Pysklywec, R. N.  
- Pannotia under prosecution / Evans, D. A. D.  
- Paleozoic plate kinematics during the Pannotia–Pangaea supercontinent cycle / Kroner, U., Stephan, T., Romer, R. L. and Roscher, M.   
- Cusp tectonics: an Ediacaran megakarst landscape and bidirectional mass slides in a Pan-African syntaxis (NW Namibia) / Hoffman, P. F.   
- Tonian–Ediacaran tectonomagmatic evolution of West Avalonia and its Ediacaran–early Cambrian interactions with Ganderia: an example of complex terrane transfer due to arc–arc collision? / van Staal, C. R., Barr, S. M., McCausland, P. J. A., Thompson, M. D. and White, C. E.  
- 100 myr cycles of oceanic lithosphere generation in peri-Gondwana: Neoproterozoic–Devonian ophiolites from the NW African–Iberian margin of Gondwana and the Variscan Orogen / Arenas, R., Sánchez Martínez, S., Albert, R., Haissen, F., Fernández-Suárez, J., Pujol-Solà, N., Andonaegui, P., Díez Fernández, R., Proenza, J. A., Garcia-Casco, A. and Gerdes, A.    
- The Dobra Gneiss and the Drosendorf Unit in the southeastern Bohemian Massif, Austria: West Amazonian crust in the heart of Europe / Lindner, M., Dörr, W., Reither, D. and Finger, F.  
- From Pan-African Transpression to Cadomian Transtension at the West African Margin: New U–Pb zircon Ages from the Eastern Saghro Inlier (Anti-Atlas, Morocco) / Errami, E., Linnemann, U., Hofmann, M., Gärtner, A., Zieger, J., Gärtner, J., Mende, K., El Kabouri, J., Gasquet, D. and Ennih, N.  
- Lithostratigraphic and structural data from Hardangervidda, southern Norway supporting extended interaction between Avalonia and Baltica / Andresen, A.  
- Early–Middle Ordovician sedimentation and bimodal volcanism at the margin of Iapetus: the Trollhøtta–Kinna Basin of the central Norwegian Caledonides / Dalslåen, B. H., Gasser, D., Grenne, T., Augland, L. E. and Andresen, A.  
- Late Neoproterozoic–Silurian tectonic evolution of the Rödingsfjället Nappe Complex, orogen-scale correlations and implications for the Scandian suture / Slagstad, T., Saalmann, K., Kirkland, C. L., Høyen, A. B., Storruste, B. K., Coint, N., Pin, C., Marker, M., Bjerkgård, T., Krill, A., Solli, A., Boyd, R., Larsen Angvik, T. and Larsen, R. B.  
- Caledonian and Pre-Caledonian orogenic events in Shetland, Scotland: evidence from garnet Lu–Hf and Sm–Nd geochronology / Walker, S., Bird, A. F., Thirlwall, M. F. and Strachan, R. A.  
- Tectonic history across the Iapetus suture zone in Ireland / McConnell, B., Riggs, N. and Fritschle, T.  
- A slab failure origin for the Donegal composite batholith, Ireland as indicated by trace-element geochemistry / Archibald, D. B. and Murphy, J. B.  
- Tectonic evolution of Anglesey and adjacent mainland North Wales / Schofield, D. I., Leslie, A. G., Wilby, P. R., Dartnall, R., Waldron, J. W. F. and Kendall, R. S.  
- Petrogenesis of Siluro-Devonian rhyolites of the Tobique Group in the northwestern Appalachians (northern New Brunswick, Canada): tectonic implications for the accretion history of peri-Gondwanan terranes along the Laurentian margin / Dostal, J., Wilson, R. A. and Jutras, P.
- Arc and slab-failure magmatism of the Taconic Orogeny, western New England, USA / Hildebrand, R. S. and Whalen, J. B.  
- Evolution of late Paleozoic shearing in the Cobequid Highlands: constraints on the fragmentation of the Appalachian Orogen in Nova Scotia along intra-continental shear zones / Piper, D. J. W. and Pe-Piper, G.  
- Structure and stratigraphy in the Pennsylvanian tectonic zone of southern New Brunswick, Canada: the ‘Maritime coastal disturbance’ revisited / Park, A. F. and Hinds, S. J.
- Gondwanan fragments in the southern Appalachians / Dennis, A. J., Miller, B. V., Hibbard, J. P., Tappa, E. and Thunell, R. C.  
- Permian igneous clasts from the Matzitzi Formation, southern Mexico: isotopic constraints on the final amalgamation of Pangaea / Juárez-Zúñiga, S., Solari, L. A. and Ortega-Obregón, C.  
- Updated geochronology and isotope geochemistry of the Vila de Cruces Ophiolite: a case study of a peri-Gondwanan back-arc ophiolite / Sánchez Martínez, S., Arenas, R., Albert, R., Gerdes, A. and Fernández-Suárez, J.  
- Reconstructing the pre-Variscan puzzle of Cambro-Ordovician basement rocks in the southwestern European margin of Gondwana / Álvaro, J. J., Casas, J. M. and Quesada, C.
- Neoproterozoic–Paleozoic detrital sources in the Variscan foreland of northern Iberia: primary v. recycled sediments / Gutiérrez-Alonso, G., López-Carmona, A., Núñez-Guerrero, E., Martínez García, A., Fernández-Suárez, J., Pastor-Galán, D., Gutiérrez-Marco, J. C., Bernárdez, E., Colmenero, J. R., Hofmann, M. and Linnemann, U.  
- Geochronology of the Iberian Pyrite Belt and the Sierra Norte Batholith: lower plate magmatism during supercontinent amalgamation? / Paslawski, L. E., Braid, J. A., Quesada, C. and McFarlane, C. M.  
- Isotope geochemistry evidence for Laurussian-type sources of South Portuguese Zone Carboniferous turbidites (Variscan Orogeny) / Pereira, M. F., Gama, C., Dias da Silva, Í, Fuenlabrada, J. M., Silva, J. B. and Medina, J.  

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