Whence Australia: Its Precambrian drift history and paleogeography

Eastern North China Craton–North Australia Craton connection at 1.0 Ga through detrital zircon mixing modelling

“…Megasequence 1 shows great similarity in detrital zircon age populations with the Xihe Group in the ENCC, especially the Svaerholt succession of the Kalak Nappe rocks (Kirkland et al, 2007(Kirkland et al, , 2008Zhang, Roberts, & Pease, 2016) This connection is quantitatively evaluated by our ENCC-NAUS model in the present study (Figure 3A). In fact, the NCC-NAUS connection in the Nuna supercontinent has been proved by paleomagnetic data (Kirscher et al, 2021;Pisarevsky et al, 2014;Wang et al, 2019;Zhang et al, 2012), detrital zircons (Yang et al, 2018(Yang et al, , 2019, oceanic euxinic events (Mitchell et al, 2021) and 1.8-1.6 Ga (Peng et al, 2022) and 1.3 Ga (Zhang et al, 2017) large igneous provinces. However, as indicated by paleomagnetic data, at ca.…”

“…This connection is quantitatively evaluated by our ENCC–NAUS model in the present study (Figure 3A). In fact, the NCC–NAUS connection in the Nuna supercontinent has been proved by paleomagnetic data (Kirscher et al, 2021; Pisarevsky et al, 2014; Wang et al, 2019; Zhang et al, 2012), detrital zircons (Yang et al, 2018, 2019), oceanic euxinic events (Mitchell et al, 2021) and 1.8–1.6 Ga (Peng et al, 2022) and 1.3 Ga (Zhang et al, 2017) large igneous provinces. However, as indicated by paleomagnetic data, at ca.…”