scholarly journals Tectonic history of the Pacific-Farallon-Phoenix triple junction from Late Jurassic to Early Cretaceous: An abandoned Mesozoic spreading system in the Central Pacific Basin

1998 ◽  
Vol 103 (B6) ◽  
pp. 12453-12468 ◽  
Author(s):  
Masao Nakanishi ◽  
Edward L. Winterer
Keyword(s):  
Early Cretaceous ◽  
Triple Junction ◽  
Late Jurassic ◽  
Pacific Basin ◽  
Central Pacific ◽  
Tectonic History ◽  
The Pacific ◽  
History Of

A panbiogeographic perspective for pre-cretaceous angiosperm–Lepidoptera coevolution

1991 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 91 ◽  
Author(s):  
JR Grehan
Keyword(s):  
Indian Ocean ◽  
Evolutionary Relationship ◽  
Ocean Basin ◽  
Pacific Basin ◽  
Angiosperm Evolution ◽  
Tectonic History ◽  
The Pacific ◽  
History Of ◽  
Coevolutionary History

The coevolutionary history of Lepidoptera and angiosperms is evaluated in relation to Croizat's panbiogeographic synthesis of angiosperm evolution. The panbiogeographic method of ocean basin classification is used to identify major patterns of trans-oceanic distribution for lepidopteran families and genera (principally non-ditrysian). The Pacific basin is identified as a major evolutionary centre for several 'primitive non-ditrysian Lepidoptera, including Zeugloptera, Aglossata, Heterobathmiina, Neopsuestina, Palaephatidae, Prodoxidae, and possibly the Dacnonypha. The ditrysian Ithomiidae are similarly classified with the Pacific while the related Daniidae are identified as Indian Ocean. An Indian Ocean baseline is proposed for the Callidulidae, Tinissimae and Perissomasticini (Tineidae). A 'coevolutionary' history is supported in terms of Lepidoptera and angiosperms sharing common biogeographic (spatiotemporal) characters associated with the pre-Cretaceous tectonic history of major ocean and sea basins. The lack of congruent higher level Lepidoptera-angiosperm phylogenies emerging from systematic studies may be due to a lack of cospeciation events, but this does not exclude a close ecological and evolutionary relationship through the history of both groups.

THE TECTONIC HISTORY OF THE PACIFIC OCEAN BASIN SINCE CHRON 34Y (83 MA)

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nicky M. Wright ◽  
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Maria Seton ◽  
Simon E. Williams ◽  
R. Dietmar Müller
Keyword(s):  
Pacific Ocean ◽  
Ocean Basin ◽  
Tectonic History ◽  
The Pacific ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Pacific Ocean

scholarly journals On the enigmatic birth of the Pacific Plate within the Panthalassa Ocean

2016 ◽  
Vol 2 (7) ◽  
pp. e1600022 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lydian M. Boschman ◽  
Douwe J. J. van Hinsbergen
Keyword(s):  
Triple Junction ◽  
Tectonic Evolution ◽  
Plate Boundary ◽  
Pacific Plate ◽  
Plate Tectonic ◽  
Point Location ◽  
Marine Magnetic Anomalies ◽  
The Pacific ◽  
History Of ◽  
Ridge System

The oceanic Pacific Plate started forming in Early Jurassic time within the vast Panthalassa Ocean that surrounded the supercontinent Pangea, and contains the oldest lithosphere that can directly constrain the geodynamic history of the circum-Pangean Earth. We show that the geometry of the oldest marine magnetic anomalies of the Pacific Plate attests to a unique plate kinematic event that sparked the plate’s birth at virtually a point location, surrounded by the Izanagi, Farallon, and Phoenix Plates. We reconstruct the unstable triple junction that caused the plate reorganization, which led to the birth of the Pacific Plate, and present a model of the plate tectonic configuration that preconditioned this event. We show that a stable but migrating triple junction involving the gradual cessation of intraoceanic Panthalassa subduction culminated in the formation of an unstable transform-transform-transform triple junction. The consequent plate boundary reorganization resulted in the formation of a stable triangular three-ridge system from which the nascent Pacific Plate expanded. We link the birth of the Pacific Plate to the regional termination of intra-Panthalassa subduction. Remnants thereof have been identified in the deep lower mantle of which the locations may provide paleolongitudinal control on the absolute location of the early Pacific Plate. Our results constitute an essential step in unraveling the plate tectonic evolution of “Thalassa Incognita” that comprises the comprehensive Panthalassa Ocean surrounding Pangea.

The trace of the Pacific-Cocos-Nazca triple junction in the Central Pacific and the formation of an overlapping spreading centre

Terra Nova ◽  
2008 ◽  
Vol 20 (3) ◽  
pp. 246-251 ◽  
Author(s):  
Martin Meschede ◽  
Udo Barckhausen ◽  
Martin Engels ◽  
Wilhelm Weinrebe
Keyword(s):  
Triple Junction ◽  
Central Pacific ◽  
The Pacific

Late geologic history of the Pacific Basin

1945 ◽  
Vol 243 (11) ◽  
pp. 614-626 ◽  
Author(s):  
H. T. Stearns
Keyword(s):  
Pacific Basin ◽  
Geologic History ◽  
The Pacific ◽  
History Of

A NEW MODEL FOR THE MID-CRETACEOUS STRUCTURAL HISTORY OF THE NORTHERN GIPPSLAND BASIN

1991 ◽  
Vol 31 (1) ◽  
pp. 143 ◽  
Author(s):  
D.C. Lowry ◽  
I.M. Longley
Keyword(s):  
Early Cretaceous ◽  
Late Cretaceous ◽  
Second Phase ◽  
Northern Flank ◽  
Tectonic History ◽  
Structural History ◽  
Intermittent Compression ◽  
History Of ◽  
Transfer Faults ◽  
Gippsland Basin

The tectonic history of the northern flank of the offshore Gippsland Basin can be divided into three phases:an Early Cretaceous rift phase (120-98 Ma) with deposition of the Strzelecki Group and extension in a northeast-southwest direction.a mid-Cretaceous phase (98-80 Ma) with deposition of the Golden Beach Group and extension in a northwest- southeast direction anda Late Cretaceous to Tertiary sag phase with intermittent compression or wrenching.Previous workers have described the first and third phases. This paper argues for a distinctive second phase with extension at right angles to the first phase. The complex Cretaceous structure in the Kipper-Hammerhead area is interpreted in terms of a model in which transfer faults of the first phase became domino faults of the second phase.

Remanent Early Cretaceous spreading center in the Central Pacific Basin

1979 ◽  
Vol 84 (B9) ◽  
pp. 4501 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kensaku Tamaki ◽  
Masato Joshima ◽  
Roger L. Larson
Keyword(s):  
Early Cretaceous ◽  
Spreading Center ◽  
Pacific Basin ◽  
Central Pacific

scholarly journals Mesozoic Intracontinental Orogeny in the Tectonic History of the Kolyvan’– Tomsk Folded Zone (Southern Siberia): a Synthesis of Geological Data and results of Apatite Fission Track Analysis

2021 ◽  
Vol 62 (9) ◽  
pp. 1006-1020
Author(s):  
F.I. Zhimulev ◽  
E.V. Vetrov ◽  
I.S. Novikov ◽  
G. Van Ranst ◽  
S. Nachtergaele ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Early Cretaceous ◽  
Middle Jurassic ◽  
Late Jurassic ◽  
Fission Track ◽  
Early Jurassic ◽  
Late Triassic ◽  
Apatite Fission Track ◽  
History Of ◽  
Paleozoic Rocks ◽  
Orogenic Events

Abstract —The Kolyvan’–Tomsk folded zone (KTFZ) is a late Permian collisional orogen in the northwestern section of the Central Asian Orogenic Belt. The Mesozoic history of the KTFZ area includes Late Triassic–Early Jurassic and Late Jurassic–Early Cretaceous orogenic events. The earlier event produced narrow deep half-ramp basins filled with Early–Middle Jurassic molasse south of the KTFZ, and the later activity rejuvenated the Tomsk thrust fault, whereby the KTFZ Paleozoic rocks were thrust over the Early–Middle Jurassic basin sediments. The Mesozoic orogenic events induced erosion and the ensuing exposure of granitoids (Barlak complex) that were emplaced in a within-plate context after the Permian collisional orogeny. Both events were most likely associated with ocean closure, i.e., the Paleothetys Ocean in the Late Triassic–Early Jurassic and the Mongol–Okhotsk Ocean in the Late Jurassic–Early Cretaceous. The apatite fission track (AFT) ages of granitoids from the Ob’ complex in the KTFZ range between ~120 and 100 Ma (the Aptian and the Albian). The rocks with Early Cretaceous AFT ages were exhumed as a result of denudation and peneplanation of the Early Cretaceous orogeny, which produced a vast Late Cretaceous–Paleogene planation surface. The tectonic pattern of the two orogenic events, although being different in details, generally inherited the late Paleozoic primary collisional structure of the Kolyvan’–Tomsk zone.

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