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Docta Complutense author Gutiérrez Alonso, Gabriel author Fernández Suárez, Javier author Weil, Arlo B. author Murphy, J. Brendam author Nance, R. Damian author Corfu, Fernando author Johnston, Stephen T. 2023-06-20T12:43:58Z 2023-06-20T12:43:58Z 2008 1752-0894 10.1038/ngeo250 https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/52370 https://www.nature.com/ngeo/ One of the most striking and rare occurrences in the Earth's history is the amalgamation of most of the continental lithosphere into one supercontinent. The most recent supercontinent, Pangaea, lasted from 320 to 200 million years ago. Here, we show that after the continental collisions that led to the formation of Pangaea, plate convergence continued in a large, wedge-shaped oceanic tract. We súggest that plate strain at the periphery of the supercontinent eventually resulted in self-subduction of the Pangaean global plate, when the ocean margin of the continent subducted beneath the continental edge at the other end of the same plate. Our scenario results in a stress regime within Pangaea that explains the development of a large fold structure near the apex of the Palaeotethys Ocean, extensive lower crustal heating and continental magmatism at the core of the continent as well as the development of radially arranged continental rifts in more peripheral regions of the plate. eng Self-subduction of the Pangaean global plate journal article URL https://docta.ucm.es/bitstreams/c75e8ab3-9640-4447-b14c-363f9215073c/download File MD5 40c7b63a2a2d7bbdedfac9aed8f27cef 384878 application/pdf Javier fERNánde.pdf URL https://docta.ucm.es/bitstreams/0ce55cb2-c0cb-402e-86e0-e83167109155/download File MD5 75d47b0b277ea2b1f197048e9346317f 30179 text/plain Javier fERNánde.pdf.txt