Late Ediacaran inertial-interchange true polar wander (IITPW) event: a new road to reconcile the enigmatic paleogeography prior to the final assembly of Gondwana

Authors

BIN WEN
CAIRONG LUO
YONG-XIANG LI
YANTING LIN

Abstract

The Ediacaran to Early Cambrian plate tectonics was dominated by a full dispersal of the supercontinent Rodinia and the subsequent amalgamation of Gondwana. There is a consensus that the final assembly of Gondwana was not completed until the Early Cambrian. Prior to the final assembly, however, one major uncertainty remains on the quantitative paleogeography: the mainland of Gondwana was plausibly positioned at either a high or low latitude at a single time instant to meet the dual-latitude ('high-latitude' and 'low-latitude') options of Laurentia and the requirement of

DOI

10.55730/1300-0985.1811

Keywords

Inertial-interchange true polar wander (IITPW), paleomagnetism, paleogeography, late Ediacaran

First Page

425

Last Page

437

Recommended Citation

WEN, BIN; LUO, CAIRONG; LI, YONG-XIANG; and LIN, YANTING (2022) "Late Ediacaran inertial-interchange true polar wander (IITPW) event: a new road to reconcile the enigmatic paleogeography prior to the final assembly of Gondwana," Turkish Journal of Earth Sciences: Vol. 31: No. 5, Article 1. https://doi.org/10.55730/1300-0985.1811
Available at: https://journals.tubitak.gov.tr/earth/vol31/iss5/1