Ian W. D. Dalziel - Research Interests

Back to Ian W. D. Dalziel's homepage

End-run of Laurentia

  

Reconstructions of Australia and Laurentia

The Laurentian "end-run" as proposed by Dalziel (1991). Africa is fixed in its present day coordinates. Gondwana is assembled using seafloor spreading data, and Laurentia is positioned relative to Gondwana using paleomagnetic data. See Dalziel (1991) for information on paleomagnetic poles used.

  

Positions of Australia relative to Asia and Laurentia relative to Gondwanaland (Dalziel 2001)

Dalziel, I.W.D., 1991, Pacific margins of Laurentia and East Antarctica-Australia as a conjugate rift pair: Evidence and implications for an Eocambrian supercontinent, Geology, v. 19, pp. 598-601.

Dalziel, I.W.D., 2001, A global perspective on the Scottish Caledonides, Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh: Earth Sciences, vol. 91, pp. 405-420.