The Precambrian terranes of Yemen and their correlation with those of Saudi Arabia and Somalia: Implications for the accretion of Gondwana
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Abstract
Most of the basement of Yemen consists of early Precambrian continental high-grade terranes and Neoproterozoic low-grade island arcs that were accreted together to form an arc-continent collage during the Pan-African orogeny (Windley et al., 1996; Whitehouse et al., 1998; Whitehouse et al., in press). The suture zones between the arc and gneiss terranes are major crustal- scale tectonic boundaries. The terranes are situated east of the Nabitah suture and of the collage of low-grade, mainly island arc terranes of the Arabian Shield, but they have been reworked by a Neoproterozoic event associated with island arc accretion. Further east in Yemen are mostly unconformable, very weakly deformed and very low-grade or unmetamorphosed sediments. Thus Yemen provides key information on the broad zone of Neoproterozoic reworking associated with the collisional boundary between western and eastern Gondwana.
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| Publication type | Article |
|---|---|
| Publication Subtype | Journal Article |
| Title | The Precambrian terranes of Yemen and their correlation with those of Saudi Arabia and Somalia: Implications for the accretion of Gondwana |
| Series title | Gondwana Research |
| DOI | 10.1016/S1342-937X(05)70697-3 |
| Volume | 4 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Year Published | 2001 |
| Language | English |
| Publisher | International Association for Gondwana Research |
| Publisher location | Osaka, Japan |
| Description | 2 p. |
| First page | 206 |
| Last page | 207 |
| Country | Saudi Arabia, Somalia, Yemen |
| Online Only (Y/N) | N |
| Additional Online Files (Y/N) | N |
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