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SUBMITTER: Daczko NR
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5976760 | biostudies-literature | 2018 May
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Daczko Nathan R NR Halpin Jacqueline A JA Fitzsimons Ian C W ICW Whittaker Joanne M JM
Scientific reports 20180530 1
The most poorly exposed and least understood Gondwana-forming orogen lies largely hidden beneath ice in East Antarctica. Called the Kuunga orogen, its interpolation between scattered outcrops is speculative with differing and often contradictory trends proposed, and no consensus on the location of any sutures. While some discount a suture altogether, paleomagnetic data from Indo-Antarctica and Australo-Antarctica do require 3000-5000 km relative displacement during Ediacaran-Cambrian Gondwana am ...[more]