BASIC TOPICS

Books

• Heather, D. C. (1979): Plate Tectonics. Hodder & Stoughton, Publisher, 80 pp.
• Mears, B. J. (1970 ): The Changing Earth: An Introductory Geology. Van Nostrand Reinhold Company.
• Stanley, S. ( 2005  ): Earth System History. W.H. Freeman and Comp. New York.

Interesting Websites:

• http://www.sci.monash.edu.au/msc/dinodream//faq/faqgond.html
• http://www.palaeos.com/Earth/Geography/Gondwana.htm
• http://homepage.mac.com/uriarte/ordovicico.htmhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gondwana
• http://www.scotese.com/earth.htm
• http://ggt.conae.gov.ar/iaa/ipyg/index.html
• http://www.gondwanaresearchonline.com/General/Index.aspxhttp://www.exploratorium.edu/origins/antarctica/ideas/gondwana2.html
• http://earth.leeds.ac.uk/~eargah/Gond.htmlhttp://kartoweb.tc.nl/gondwana/gondwana_gif.html
• http://www.kartografie.nl/gondwana/gondwana_gif.html

Special Papers and publications:

• Bonatti, E.: (1987): The rifting of continents.- Scientific American, 256 (3), p.. 74-81.
• Bond, G.C., Nickelson, P.A. and Kominz, M. A. (1984), Breakup of supercontinent between 625Ma and 55Ma;New evidence and implicationes for continental histories.   Earth and Planetary Science Letters Bd. 70 p.325-345  Amsterdam.
• Carey, S. W. (1955): "Wegener's South America-Africa Assembly, Fit or Misfit?" Geol. Mag. 92 pp. 196-200.
• DeWit, M., and others (1999): Gondwana Reconstruction and Dispersion.-  American Assoc. of Petroleum Geologists, Search and Discovery.
• Dietz, R. S. (1961): Continent and Ocean Basin Evolution by Spreading of the Sea FIoor.- Nature, Londres 190 pp. 854-857.
• Dietz, R. S, y J. C. Holden (1970): Reconstruction of Pangaea: Breakup and Dispersión of Continents.- J. geophys. Res. 75 (26) pp. 4939-4956.
• Du Toit, A. (1937): Our Wandering Continents. - Oliver & Boyd, Edimburg, 366 p.
• Forsyth, D. and Uyeda, S. (1975):  On the relative importance of the driving forces of plate motion. - Geophys. J. R. Astron. Soc., 43, p. 163-200
• Griem W. (2007). Winter School 2007: "e-Learning in the Environmental and Geosciences" Berlin, January, 2007.
• Haq, B. U.  (1984). Paleoceanography: A synoptic overview of 200 million years of ocean history. In: B. U. Haq and J. P. Milliman, Editors, Marine Geology and Oceanography of Arabian Sea and Coastal Pakistan, Van Nostrand–Reinhold, New York, pp. 201–234.
• Haq, B.U.0. (1984): Paleoceanography: A Synoptic Overview of 200 Million Years of Ocean History  Exxon Production Research Company  p.  Houston, Texas.
• König, M., Jokat, W. (2006): The Mesozoic breakup of the Weddell Sea: Journal of geophysical research, 111, B12102. DOI 10.10292005JB004035.
• Meert, J.G.  (2003): A synopsis of events related to the assembly of eastern Gondwana, Tectonphysics, 362, pp. 1-40.
• Pletsch, T., J. Erbacher, A. E. L. Holbourn, W. Kuhnt, M. Moullade, F. E. Oboh-Ikuenobede, E. Söding and T. Wagner (2001):Cretaceous separation of Africa and South America: the view from the West African margin (ODP Leg 159). -Journal of South American Earth Sciences; Volume 14, Issue 2.  Pages 147-174.
• Scheffler, K., Hoernes S. and Schwark L. (2003): Global changes during Carboniferous–Permian glaciation of Gondwana: Linking polar and equatorial climate evolution by geochemical proxies. Geology, 31, pp. 605-608.
• Schuchardt, K. (1889): Ueber das Wesen der Ozaena nebst einigen Bemerkungen über Epithelmetaplasie.- Leipzig.
• Wegener, A. (2002*) The origins of continents: Geol Rundsch 3:276-292    pp. 4 - 17 . - International Journal of Earth Sciences; Vol. 91;  No. 1 (supplement - Artículos Históricos).
• Wegener, A. (1929): Die Entstehung der Kontinente und Ozeane. Gebr. Borntraeger, 481 p..
• Wilson, J. T. (1973):  Mantle plumes and plate motions. - Tectonophysics, 19, pp. 149-164.
• Potter, P.E. (1997):  The Mesozoic and Cenozoic paleodrainage of South America: a natural history.-   Journal of South American Earth Sciences Vol. 10, pp. 331-344.
• Somoza R. (1998): Updated Nazca (Farallon)––South America relative motions during the last 40 My: implications for mountain building in the central Andean region. -Journal of South American Earth Sciences; Volume 11, 3, pp. 211-215.
• Zonnenshayn, L., Savostin, L. and Sedov, A. (1984):  Global paleogeodynamic reconstructions for the last 160 million year.-  Geotectonics 18, 3, pp.181- 195.

SPECIAL TOPICS

Stratigraphy

• Smith  A.G. and Hallam, A. (1970): The fit of the southern continents. Nature 225, pp. 139–144.

Glaciation

• Rubino J. L., Deynoux M., Ghienne J-F., Moreau J., Blanpied C., Lafont F., Andres-Calatrava R., Galeazzi S., Mynth T., Sommer F. (2003): Late Ordovician Glaciation in Northern Gondwana, Reappraisal and Petroleum Implications. AAPG Hedberg Conference “Paleozoic and Triassic Petroleum Systems in North Africa”. February 18-20,  Algiers, Algeria.

Fauna and Flora

• Collinson, J. W., W. R. Hammer, R. A. Askin, and D. H. Elliot (2006): Permian-Triassic boundary, central Transantarctic Mountains,Antarctica, Geological Soc.America Bull., 118, 747-763.
• Larsson, K. (1995): Permian vertebrate remains from Kirwanbeggen, Dronning Maud Land, Abstracts, VII International Symposium on Antarctic Earth Sciences, Siena (Italy), 10-15 September 1995, p. 86.
• Rubidge, B. S. (2005): Re-uniting lost continents – Fossil reptiles from the ancient Karoo and their wanderlust, South African J. Geology, 108, 135-172.
• Taylor, E. L., T. N., Taylor, and N. R. Cúneo (2000): Permian and Triassic high latitude paleoclimates: Evidence from fossil biotas, In Warm Climates in Earth History, edited by B. T., Huber, K. G. MacLeod, and S. L. Wing, pp. 321-350, Cambridge University Press, New York.

Tectonics

• De Wit, M., Jeffery, M., Bergh, H., and Nicolaysen, L. (1988): Geological map of sectors of Gondwana reconstructed to their disposition ~150 Ma. America Association of Petroleum Geologists, Tulsa, OK 74101, scale 1:10,000,000.
• Golonka, J., Ross, M.I., and Scotese, C.R. (1994): Phanerozoic paleogeographic and paleoclimatic modeling maps., in A.F. Embry, et al., eds., Pangaea: Global environments and resources. Canadian Society of Petroleum Geologists, Calgary, Canada, 1-47.
• Lawver, L.A., Gahagan, L.M., Dalziel, I.W.D. (1999): A tight fit – Early Mesozoic Gondwana, a plate reconstruction perspective. Mem. Natl. Ist. Polar Res. Spec Issue 53, 214-229.
• Sears J.W, St. George G.M. and Winne J.C. (2005): Continental rift systems and anorogenic magmatism. Lithos, 80, 147-154.

Mineral Deposits

• Haberlin Y.; Moritz R.; Fontbote L. (2003): Paleozoic orogenic gold deposits in the eastern Central Andes and its foreland, South America.-Ore Geology Reviews, Volume 22, Number 1, pp. 41-59.
• Shilo, N.A. (2007): http://www.springerlink.com/content/0201271l37h5107n/.