Major Kinematic Revolutions: The Underside of the Maps

The postulation of intermittent land bridges as an explanation for reiterated colonization events of Madagascar by African vertebrates: An in-depth review and novel insights in honour of the late Judith Masters and Fabien Génin

“…Vertical movements were only considered in relation to the hot spot theory and regarded as local events. The new paradigm used by Aslanian et al (2022) is based on the consideration of cyclic kinematic revolutions concomitant with mass extinctions, sea-level lows, continental flood-basalt eruptions, mountain-building events, abrupt changes in seafloor spreading, ocean-anoxic and black-shale events, vast evaporite depositions, major magmatic events associated with global uplifts and connected to sedimentary cycles, production of carbonate plate-forms and climate evolution. Although the mechanisms underlying these events are poorly known, their occurrences are well-documented at a global level, and often associated with tectonic movements and volcanism (for instance: Raup & Sepokoski, 1984;Raup, 1985;Rhode & Muller, 2005 ;Rampino, 2015 ;Baby, 2017;Boulila et al, 2018 ;Leroux et al,2018 ;Rampino & Caldeira, 2020 ;Moulin et al, 2020;Rampino et al, 2021 ;.…”

“…These events present a cyclicity which may be related to the geodynamic changes related to the disruption of Pangea during three main episodes (Moulin & Aslanian, 2010): Triassic (195-185 Ma), Early Cretaceous (135-125 Ma), and Cenozoic (75-65 Ma). These were also times of major global events, such as biological extinctions, magnetic reversals, impacts by large extra-terrestrial bodies (Raup 1985), and global kinematic phases Aslanian et al, 2022). Possible causes of horizontal movements remain debatable (subduction pull, ridge push, mantle convection, etc.)…”