The Río de la Plata craton and the assembly of SW Gondwana

CW Rapela, RJ Pankhurst, C Casquet… - Earth-Science …, 2007 - Elsevier
The extent and nature of the Archaean–Palaeoproterozoic craton of Río de la Plata of
southern South America, a major but poorly understood crustal component in …

The Tandilia System of Argentina as a southern extension of the Río de la Plata craton: an overview

CA Cingolani - International Journal of Earth Sciences, 2011 - Springer
The southernmost outcrops of the Río de la Plata cratonic region are exposed in the Tandilia
System in eastern Argentina. The geological evolution comprises mainly an igneous …

Correlation of Neoproterozoic terranes between the Ribeira Belt, SE Brazil and its African counterpart: comparative tectonic evolution and open questions

M Heilbron, CM Valeriano, CCG Tassinari… - Geological Society …, 2008 - lyellcollection.org
Four main classes of tectonic entities may be considered for the Ribeira Belt and southwest
African counterparts:(1) cratonic fragments older than 1.8 Ga and their passive margin …

West Gondwana amalgamation based on detrital zircon ages from Neoproterozoic Ribeira and Dom Feliciano belts of South America and comparison with coeval …

MAS Basei, HE Frimmel, AP Nutman… - Geological Society …, 2008 - lyellcollection.org
Abstract Neoproterozoic–Cambrian amalgamation of West Gondwana involved the collision
of several terranes of older crust that are now in eastern South America and western Africa …

Neoproterozoic geodynamic evolution of SW-Gondwana: a southern African perspective

HE Frimmel, MS Basei, C Gaucher - International Journal of Earth …, 2011 - Springer
Our current understanding of the tectonic history of the principal Pan-African orogenic belts
in southwestern Africa, reaching from the West Congo Belt in the north to the …

Suturing Gondwana in the Cambrian: the orogenic events of the final amalgamation

RS Schmitt, RA Fragoso, AS Collins - Geology of southwest Gondwana, 2018 - Springer
Gondwana was consolidated in the late Cambrian after 180 myr of tectonic convergence
among Neoproterozoic paleocontinents and smaller fragments. We present a compilation of …

Multiple accretion at the eastern margin of the Rio de la Plata craton: the prolonged Brasiliano orogeny in southernmost Brazil

K Saalmann, A Gerdes, Y Lahaye, LA Hartmann… - International Journal of …, 2011 - Springer
Abstract The Neoproterozoic-Eoplalaeozoic Brasiliano orogeny at the eastern margin of the
Rio de la Plata craton in southernmost Brazil and Uruguay comprises a complex tectonic …

Chromium isotopes in carbonates—a tracer for climate change and for reconstructing the redox state of ancient seawater

R Frei, C Gaucher, LN Døssing, AN Sial - Earth and Planetary Science …, 2011 - Elsevier
Strontium and carbon isotopes of marine carbonates are routinely applied for
chemostratigraphic cross correlations of time-equivalent sedimentary sequences and for …

Archean to early Neoproterozoic crustal growth of the southern South American Platform and its wide-reaching “African” origins

M Hueck, S Oriolo, MAS Basei, P Oyhantçabal… - Precambrian …, 2022 - Elsevier
The amalgamation of southwestern Gondwana during the late Neoproterozoic
Brasiliano/Pan-African orogenic cycle involved the tectonic interaction of the Congo …

Detrital zircon ages of Neoproterozoic sedimentary successions in Uruguay and Argentina: insights into the geological evolution of the Río de la Plata Craton

C Gaucher, SC Finney, DG Poiré, VA Valencia… - Precambrian …, 2008 - Elsevier
Although the Río de la Plata craton is exposed over a relatively large area in Uruguay,
eastern Argentina, and southernmost Brazil, its geological evolution is poorly known …