%0 Journal Article %T Closure of the Proterozoic Mozambique Ocean was instigated by a late Tonian plate reorganization event %+ Laboratoire de Géologie de Lyon - Terre, Planètes, Environnement (LGL-TPE) %A Collins, Alan S. %A Blades, Morgan L. %A Merdith, Andrew S. %A Foden, John D. %< avec comité de lecture %J Communications Earth & Environment %V 2 %8 2021 %D 2021 %Z 2021ComEE...2...75C %R 10.1038/s43247-021-00149-z %Z Sciences of the Universe [physics]Journal articles %X Plate reorganization events involve fundamental changes in lithospheric plate-motions and can influence the lithosphere-mantle system as well as both ocean and atmospheric circulation through bathymetric and topographic changes. Here, we compile published data to interpret the geological record of the Neoproterozoic Arabian-Nubian Shield and integrate this with a full-plate tectonic reconstruction. Our model reveals a plate reorganization event in the late Tonian period about 720 million years ago that changed plate-movement directions in the Mozambique Ocean. After the reorganization, Neoproterozoic India moved towards both the African cratons and Australia-Mawson and instigated the future amalgamation of central Gondwana about 200 million years later. This plate kinematic change is coeval with the breakup of the core of Rodinia between Australia-Mawson and Laurentia and Kalahari and Congo. We suggest the plate reorganization event caused the long-term shift of continents to the southern hemisphere and created a pan-northern hemisphere ocean in the Ediacaran. %G English %2 https://insu.hal.science/insu-03710140/document %2 https://insu.hal.science/insu-03710140/file/s43247-021-00149-z.pdf %L insu-03710140 %U https://insu.hal.science/insu-03710140 %~ UNIV-ST-ETIENNE %~ ENS-LYON %~ INSU %~ CNRS %~ UNIV-LYON1 %~ LGL-TPE %~ UDL %~ UNIV-LYON