Orocline‐driven transtensional basins: Insights from the Lower Permian Manning Basin (eastern Australia)

The contorted New England Orogen (eastern Australia): New evidence from UPb geochronology of early Permian granitoids

[1] A series of sharp bends (oroclines) are recognized in the Paleozoic to early Mesozoic New England Orogen of eastern Australia. The exact geometry and origin of these bends is obscured by voluminous magmatism and is still debated. Here we present zircon U-Pb ages that confirm the lateral continuation of early Permian (296–288 Ma) granitoids and shed new light on the oroclinal structure. Orog...

Extensional and transtensional continental arc basins: case studies from the southwestern United States

Extensional and transtensional continental arc basins preserve very thick, continuous sequences and are an important contributor to the growth of continents; therefore, it is important to understand how they evolve. In this chapter, I describe four continental arc basin types, using Mesozoic to Cenozoic case studies from the SW US: (1) early-stage, low-lying extensional; (2) early-stage, low-ly...

DEPOSITIONAL HISTORY AND PALEOGEOGRAPHY OF THE LOWER PALEOCENE REDBEDS IN EASTERN KOPET-DAGH BASIN NORTHEASTERN IRAN

Depositional History of the Atokan Succession (lower Pennsylvanian) in the Permian Basin

Atokan-age units in the Permian Basin record a 2-order transgression, with aerially restricted, lower Atokan fluvial to shallow-marine siliciclastics followed by pervasive carbonate deposition. In general, Atokan-age siliciclastics dominated deposition in the west of the Permian Basin while carbonate deposition dominated throughout the rest of the basin. Predominance of carbonate facies across ...

Record of the genus Lycopodites in the Lower Permian of Paraná Basin, Brazil.

The genus Lycopodites, which encompasses the herbaceous forms of the lycopsids, presents broad time and spacial distribution during the Paleozoic in the Northern Hemisphere, with its initial records dating from the European Devonian. As to Gondwanan Paleozoic, to this moment, only Lycopodites amazonica Dolianiti had been reported for the Amazonian Middle Devonian (Curuá Group). Thus, the specim...