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Description / Table of Contents: Plate tectonics provide a unifying conceptual framework for the understanding of Phanerozoic orogens.More controversially, recent syntheses apply these principles as far back as the Early Archaean. Manyancient orogens are, however, poorly preserved and the processes responsible for them are not well understood.The effects of processes such as delamination, subduction of oceanic and aseismic ridges, overridingof plumes and subduction erosion are rarely identified in ancient orogens, although they have a profoundeffect on Cenozoic orogens. However, deeply eroded ancient orogens provide insights into the hiddenroots of modern orogens. Recent advances in analytical techniques, as well as in fields such as geodynamics,have provided fresh insights into ancient orogenic belts, so that realistic modern analogies can nowbe applied. This Special Publication offers up-to-date reviews and models for some of the most importantorogenic belts developed over the past 2.5 billion years of Earth history.

Description / Table of Contents: Ancient orogens and modern analogues: an introduction / J. Brendan Murphy, J. Duncan Keppie and Andrew J. Hynes / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 327, 1-8, 1 January 2009, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP327.1 --- Mesozoic–Cenozoic Orogens --- Caldera volcanism and rift structure in the Taupo Volcanic Zone, New Zealand / J. W. Cole and K. D. Spinks / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 327, 9-29, 1 January 2009, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP327.2 --- Andean flat-slab subduction through time / Victor A. Ramos and Andrés Folguera / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 327, 31-54, 1 January 2009, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP327.3 --- Middle Miocene Chiapas fold and thrust belt of Mexico: a result of collision of the Tehuantepec Transform/Ridge with the Middle America Trench / J. J. Mandujano-Velazquez and J. Duncan Keppie / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 327, 55-69, 1 January 2009, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP327.4 --- Extrusion of high-pressure Cache Creek rocks into the Triassic Stikinia–Quesnellia arc of the Canadian Cordillera: implications for terrane analysis of ancient orogens and palaeogeography / Jaroslav Dostal, J. Duncan Keppie and Filippo Ferri / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 327, 71-87, 1 January 2009, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP327.5 --- Plate tectonics of the Alpine realm / Gérard M. Stampfli and Cyril Hochard / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 327, 89-111, 1 January 2009, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP327.6 --- The Calabrian Orocline: buckling of a previously more linear orogen / Stephen T. Johnston and Stefano Mazzoli / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 327, 113-125, 1 January 2009, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP327.7 --- Seismic structure, crustal architecture and tectonic evolution of the Anatolian-African Plate Boundary and the Cenozoic Orogenic Belts in the Eastern Mediterranean Region / Yildirim Dilek and Eric Sandvol / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 327, 127-160, 1 January 2009, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP327.8 --- Palaeozoic/Neoproterozoic Orogens --- The evolution of the Uralian orogen / Victor N. Puchkov / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 327, 161-195, 1 January 2009, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP327.9 --- Timing of dextral strike-slip processes and basement exhumation in the Elbe Zone (Saxo-Thuringian Zone): the final pulse of the Variscan Orogeny in the Bohemian Massif constrained by LA-SF-ICP-MS U-Pb zircon data / M. Hofmann, U. Linnemann, A. Gerdes, B. Ullrich and M. Schauer / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 327, 197-214, 1 January 2009, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP327.10 --- Variscan intra-orogenic extensional tectonics in the Ossa-Morena Zone (Évora-Aracena-Lora del Rı́o metamorphic belt, SW Iberian Massif): SHRIMP zircon U-Th-Pb geochronology / M. Francisco Pereira, Martim Chichorro, Ian S. Williams, José B. Silva, Carlos Fernández, Manuel Dı́az-azpı́roz, Arturo Apraiz and Antonio Castro / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 327, 215-237, 1 January 2009, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP327.11 --- Palaeozoic palaeogeography of Mexico: constraints from detrital zircon age data / R. Damian Nance, J. Duncan Keppie, Brent V. Miller, J. Brendan Murphy and Jaroslav Dostal / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 327, 239-269, 1 January 2009, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP327.12 --- Pre-Carboniferous, episodic accretion-related, orogenesis along the Laurentian margin of the northern Appalachians / Cees R. van Staal, Joseph B. Whalen, Pablo Valverde-Vaquero, Alexandre Zagorevski and Neil Rogers / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 327, 271-316, 1 January 2009, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP327.13 --- From Rodinia to Pangaea: ophiolites from NW Iberia as witness for a long-lived continental margin / Sonia Sánchez Martı́nez, Ricardo Arenas, Javier Fernández-Suárez and Teresa E. Jeffries / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 327, 317-341, 1 January 2009, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP327.14 --- Rheic Ocean mafic complexes: overview and synthesis / J. Brendan Murphy, Gabriel Gutiérrez-Alonso, R. Damian Nance, Javier Fernández-Suárez, J. Duncan Keppie, Cecilio Quesada, Jaroslav Dostal and James A. Braid / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 327, 343-369, 1 January 2009, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP327.15 --- Proterozoic Orogens --- The palaeomagnetically viable, long-lived and all-inclusive Rodinia supercontinent reconstruction / David A. D. Evans / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 327, 371-404, 1 January 2009, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP327.16 --- The Grenville Province as a large hot long-duration collisional orogen – insights from the spatial and thermal evolution of its orogenic fronts / Toby Rivers / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 327, 405-444, 1 January 2009, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP327.17 --- Neoproterozoic reworking of the Palaeoproterozoic Capricorn Orogen of Western Australia and implications for the amalgamation of Rodinia / Sandra A. Occhipinti and Steven M. Reddy / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 327, 445-456, 1 January 2009, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP327.18 --- The Palaeoproterozoic Trans-Hudson Orogen: a prototype of modern accretionary processes / D. Corrigan, S. Pehrsson, N. Wodicka and E. de Kemp / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 327, 457-479, 1 January 2009, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP327.19

Description / Table of Contents: The supercontinent-cycle hypothesis attributes planetary-scale episodic tectonic events to an intrinsic self-organizing mode of mantle convection, governed by the buoyancy of continental lithosphere that resists subduction during the closure of old ocean basins, and the consequent reorganization of mantle convection cells leading to the opening of new ocean basins. Characteristic timescales of the cycle are typically 500 to 700 million years. Proposed spatial patterns of cyclicity range from hemispheric (introversion) to antipodal (extroversion), to precisely between those end members (orthoversion). Advances in our understanding can arise from theoretical or numerical modelling, primary data acquisition relevant to continental reconstructions, and spatiotemporal correlations between plate kinematics, geodynamic events and palaeoenvironmental history. The palaeogeographic record of supercontinental tectonics on Earth is still under development. The contributions in this Special Publication provide snapshots in time of these investigations and indicate that Earth's palaeogeographic record incorporates elements of all three end-member spatial patterns.

Description / Table of Contents: Pannotia to Pangaea: Neoproterozoic and Paleozoic Orogenic Cycles in the Circum-Atlantic Region: A celebration of the career of Damian Nance / J. Brendan Murphy, Robin A. Strachan and Cecilio Quesada / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 503, 1-11, 11 November 2020, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP503-2020-213 --- Pannotia: in defence of its existence and geodynamic significance / J. Brendan Murphy, R. Damian Nance, Peter A. Cawood, William J. Collins, Wei Dan, Luc S. Doucet, Philip J. Heron, Zheng-Xiang Li, Ross N. Mitchell, Sergei Pisarevsky, Peir K. Pufahl, Cecilio Quesada, Christopher J. Spencer, Rob A. Strachan and Lei Wu / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 503, 13-39, 27 August 2020, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP503-2020-96 --- Pannotia's mantle signature: the quest for supercontinent identification / Philip J. Heron, J. Brendan Murphy, R. Damian Nance and R. N. Pysklywec / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 503, 41-61, 8 September 2020, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP503-2020-7 --- Pannotia under prosecution / David A. D. Evans / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 503, 63-81, 13 October 2020, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP503-2020-182 --- Paleozoic plate kinematics during the Pannotia–Pangaea supercontinent cycle / Uwe Kroner, Tobias Stephan, Rolf L. Romer and Marco Roscher / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 503, 83-104, 9 July 2020, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP503-2020-15 --- Cusp tectonics: an Ediacaran megakarst landscape and bidirectional mass slides in a Pan-African syntaxis (NW Namibia) / Paul F. Hoffman / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 503, 105-142, 20 May 2020, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP503-2019-253 --- Tonian–Ediacaran tectonomagmatic evolution of West Avalonia and its Ediacaran–early Cambrian interactions with Ganderia: an example of complex terrane transfer due to arc–arc collision? / C. R. van Staal, S. M. Barr, P. J. A. McCausland, M. D. Thompson and C. E. White / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 503, 143-167, 5 June 2020, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP503-2020-23 --- 100 myr cycles of oceanic lithosphere generation in peri-Gondwana: Neoproterozoic–Devonian ophiolites from the NW African–Iberian margin of Gondwana and the Variscan Orogen / Ricardo Arenas, Sonia Sánchez Martínez, Richard Albert, Faouziya Haissen, Javier Fernández-Suárez, Núria Pujol-Solà, Pilar Andonaegui, Rubén Díez Fernández, Joaquín A. Proenza, Antonio Garcia-Casco and Axel Gerdes / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 503, 169-184, 22 May 2020, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP503-2020-3 --- The Dobra Gneiss and the Drosendorf Unit in the southeastern Bohemian Massif, Austria: West Amazonian crust in the heart of Europe / Martin Lindner, Wolfgang Dörr, Daniel Reither and Fritz Finger / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 503, 185-207, 20 May 2020, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP503-2019-232 --- From Pan-African Transpression to Cadomian Transtension at the West African Margin: New U–Pb zircon Ages from the Eastern Saghro Inlier (Anti-Atlas, Morocco) / Ezzoura Errami, Ulf Linnemann, Mandy Hofmann, Andreas Gärtner, Johannes Zieger, Jessica Gärtner, Katja Mende, Jamal El Kabouri, Dominique Gasquet and Nasser Ennih / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 503, 209-233, 14 October 2020, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP503-2020-105 --- Lithostratigraphic and structural data from Hardangervidda, southern Norway supporting extended interaction between Avalonia and Baltica / Arild Andresen / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 503, 235-250, 10 November 2020, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP503-2020-79 --- Early­­­­–Middle Ordovician sedimentation and bimodal volcanism at the margin of Iapetus: the Trollhøtta–Kinna Basin of the central Norwegian Caledonides / Bjørgunn H. Dalslåen, Deta Gasser, Tor Grenne, Lars E. Augland and Arild Andresen / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 503, 251-277, 7 July 2020, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP503-2020-37 --- Late Neoproterozoic–Silurian tectonic evolution of the Rödingsfjället Nappe Complex, orogen-scale correlations and implications for the Scandian suture / Trond Slagstad, Kerstin Saalmann, Chris L. Kirkland, Anne B. Høyen, Bergliot K. Storruste, Nolwenn Coint, Christian Pin, Mogens Marker, Terje Bjerkgård, Allan Krill, Arne Solli, Rognvald Boyd, Tine Larsen Angvik and Rune B. Larsen / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 503, 279-304, 26 June 2020, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP503-2020-10 --- Caledonian and Pre-Caledonian orogenic events in Shetland, Scotland: evidence from garnet Lu–Hf and Sm–Nd geochronology / S. Walker, A. F. Bird, M. F. Thirlwall and R. A. Strachan / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 503, 305-331, 14 September 2020, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP503-2020-32 --- Tectonic history across the Iapetus suture zone in Ireland / Brian McConnell, Nancy Riggs and Tobias Fritschle / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 503, 333-345, 23 June 2020, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP503-2019-233 --- A slab failure origin for the Donegal composite batholith, Ireland as indicated by trace-element geochemistry / Donnelly B. Archibald and J. Brendan Murphy / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 503, 347-370, 29 May 2020, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP503-2020-6 --- Tectonic evolution of Anglesey and adjacent mainland North Wales / D. I. Schofield, A. G. Leslie, P. R. Wilby, R. Dartnall, J. W. F. Waldron and R. S. Kendall / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 503, 371-390, 8 June 2020, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP503-2020-9 --- Petrogenesis of Siluro-Devonian rhyolites of the Tobique Group in the northwestern Appalachians (northern New Brunswick, Canada): tectonic implications for the accretion history of peri-Gondwanan terranes along the Laurentian margin / Jaroslav Dostal, Reginald A. Wilson and Pierre Jutras / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 503, 391-407, 1 June 2020, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP503-2019-229 --- Arc and slab-failure magmatism of the Taconic Orogeny, western New England, USA / Robert S. Hildebrand and Joseph B. Whalen / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 503, 409-422, 29 May 2020, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP503-2019-247 --- Evolution of late Paleozoic shearing in the Cobequid Highlands: constraints on the fragmentation of the Appalachian Orogen in Nova Scotia along intra-continental shear zones / David J. W. Piper and Georgia Pe-Piper / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 503, 423-442, 20 May 2020, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP503-2019-239 --- Structure and stratigraphy in the Pennsylvanian tectonic zone of southern New Brunswick, Canada: the ‘Maritime coastal disturbance’ revisited / Adrian F. Park and Steven J. Hinds / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 503, 443-468, 9 July 2020, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP503-2019-234 --- Gondwanan fragments in the southern Appalachians / A. J. Dennis, B. V. Miller, J. P. Hibbard, E. Tappa and R. C. Thunell / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 503, 469-480, 27 July 2020, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP503-2019-249 --- Permian igneous clasts from the Matzitzi Formation, southern Mexico: isotopic constraints on the final amalgamation of Pangaea / Sandra Juárez-Zúñiga, Luigi A. Solari and Carlos Ortega-Obregón / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 503, 481-496, 22 May 2020, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP503-2019-238 --- Updated geochronology and isotope geochemistry of the Vila de Cruces Ophiolite: a case study of a peri-Gondwanan back-arc ophiolite / Sonia Sánchez Martínez, Ricardo Arenas, Richard Albert, Axel Gerdes and Javier Fernández-Suárez / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 503, 497-530, 29 May 2020, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP503-2020-8 --- Reconstructing the pre-Variscan puzzle of Cambro-Ordovician basement rocks in the southwestern European margin of Gondwana / J. Javier Álvaro, Josep Maria Casas and Cecilio Quesada / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 503, 531-562, 29 September 2020, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP503-2020-89 --- Neoproterozoic–paleozoic detrital sources in the Variscan foreland of northern Iberia: primary v. recycled sediments / G. Gutiérrez-Alonso, A. López-Carmona, E. Núñez-Guerrero, A. Martínez García, J. Fernández-Suárez, D. Pastor-Galán, J. C. Gutiérrez-Marco, E. Bernárdez, J. R. Colmenero, M. Hofmann and U. Linnemann / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 503, 563-588, 27 July 2020, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP503-2020-21 --- Geochronology of the Iberian Pyrite Belt and the Sierra Norte Batholith: lower plate magmatism during supercontinent amalgamation? / Lori E. Paslawski, James A. Braid, Cecilio Quesada and C. M. McFarlane / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 503, 589-617, 22 July 2020, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP503-2020-5 --- Isotope geochemistry evidence for Laurussian-type sources of South Portuguese Zone Carboniferous turbidites (Variscan Orogeny) / Manuel Francisco Pereira, Cristina Gama, Ícaro Dias da Silva, José Manuel Fuenlabrada, José Brandão Silva and Jorge Medina / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 503, 619-642, 20 May 2020, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP503-2019-163