Pan-African orogeny

The Pan-African orogeny was a series of major Neoproterozoic orogenic events which related to the formation of the supercontinents Gondwana and Pannotia about 600 million years ago.[1] This orogeny is also known as the Pan-Gondwanan or Saldanian Orogeny.[2] The Pan-African orogeny and the Grenville orogeny are the largest known systems of orogenies on Earth.[3] The sum of the continental crust formed in the Pan-African orogeny and the Grenville orogeny makes the Neoproterozoic the period of Earth's history that has produced most continental crust.[3]

  1. ^ Glossary.
  2. ^ van Hinsbergen 2011, p. 148
  3. ^ a b Rino, S.; Kon, Y.; Sato, W.; Maruyama, S.; Santosh, M.; Zhao, D. (2008). "The Grenvillian and Pan-African orogens: World's largest orogenies through geologic time, and their implications on the origin of superplume". Gondwana Research. 14 (1–2): 51–72. doi:10.1016/j.gr.2008.01.001.