The Precambrian terranes of Yemen and their correlation with those of Saudi Arabia and Somalia: Implications for the accretion of Gondwana
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Abstract
Most of the basement of Yemen consists of early Precambrian continental high-grade terranes and Neoproterozoic low-grade island arcs that were accreted together to form an arc-continent collage during the Pan-African orogeny (Windley et al., 1996; Whitehouse et al., 1998; Whitehouse et al., in press). The suture zones between the arc and gneiss terranes are major crustal- scale tectonic boundaries. The terranes are situated east of the Nabitah suture and of the collage of low-grade, mainly island arc terranes of the Arabian Shield, but they have been reworked by a Neoproterozoic event associated with island arc accretion. Further east in Yemen are mostly unconformable, very weakly deformed and very low-grade or unmetamorphosed sediments. Thus Yemen provides key information on the broad zone of Neoproterozoic reworking associated with the collisional boundary between western and eastern Gondwana.
Suggested Citation
Windley, B., Whitehouse, M., Stoeser, D.B., Al-Khirbash, S., Ba-Bttat, M.A., and Al-Ghotbah, A., 2001, The Precambrian terranes of Yemen and their correlation with those of Saudi Arabia and Somalia: Implications for the accretion of Gondwana: Gondwana Research, v. 4, no. 2, p. 206-207, https://doi.org/10.1016/S1342-937X(05)70697-3.
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| Publication type | Article |
|---|---|
| Publication Subtype | Journal Article |
| Title | The Precambrian terranes of Yemen and their correlation with those of Saudi Arabia and Somalia: Implications for the accretion of Gondwana |
| Series title | Gondwana Research |
| DOI | 10.1016/S1342-937X(05)70697-3 |
| Volume | 4 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Year Published | 2001 |
| Language | English |
| Publisher | International Association for Gondwana Research |
| Publisher location | Osaka, Japan |
| Description | 2 p. |
| First page | 206 |
| Last page | 207 |
| Country | Saudi Arabia, Somalia, Yemen |
| Online Only (Y/N) | N |
| Additional Online Files (Y/N) | N |