A review of the Famatinian Ordovician magmatism in southern South America: evidence of lithosphere reworking and continental subduction in the early proto-Andean …

CW Rapela, RJ Pankhurst, C Casquet… - Earth-Science …, 2018 - Elsevier
Along the proto-Pacific margin of Gondwana, from Venezuela to northeastern Patagonia, the
Early–Middle Ordovician Famatinian orogeny was the first orogenic event following …

Early Paleozoic accretionary orogenies in NW Argentina: growth of West Gondwana

RF Weinberg, R Becchio, P Farias, N Suzaño… - Earth-Science …, 2018 - Elsevier
Abstract Two Early Paleozoic orogenic cycles in the Gondwana margin of NW Argentina
were driven by subduction, and interrupted by collision of continental ribbons of Laurentian …

Identifying Laurentian and SW Gondwana sources in the Neoproterozoic to Early Paleozoic metasedimentary rocks of the Sierras Pampeanas: Paleogeographic and …

CW Rapela, SO Verdecchia, C Casquet… - Gondwana …, 2016 - Elsevier
The provenance of Neoproterozoic to Early Paleozoic sedimentary rocks in the Sierras
Pampeanas has been established using U–Pb SHRIMP age determination of detrital zircons …

Reworking subducted sediments in arc magmas and the isotopic diversity of the continental crust: The case of the Ordovician Famatinian crustal section, Argentina

J Cornet, O Laurent, JF Wotzlaw, MA Antonelli… - Earth and Planetary …, 2022 - Elsevier
Since the onset of plate tectonics, continents have evolved through a balance between
crustal growth, reworking, and recycling at convergent plate margins. The term “reworking” …

The formation of lithium-rich pegmatites through multi-stage melting

L Koopmans, T Martins, R Linnen, NJ Gardiner… - …, 2024 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
Lithium-cesium-tantalum–type pegmatites (the primary source of lithium) crystallize from
highly evolved, volatile felsic melts that incorporated crustal material in their source …

A MASH zone revealed: the mafic complex of the Sierra Valle Fértil

BA Walker Jr, GW Bergantz, JE Otamendi… - Journal of …, 2015 - academic.oup.com
Abstract The Sierra Valle Fértil Complex of west–central Argentina represents a section of
the Ordovician (∼ 470 Ma) Famatinian arc and exposes a continuous, tilted crustal arc …

The geodynamic history of the Famatinian arc, Argentina: a record of exposed geology over the type section (latitudes 27°-33° south)

JE Otamendi, EA Cristofolini, A Morosini… - Journal of South …, 2020 - Elsevier
The Famatinian arc, over central-western Argentina, is one of the few examples of exposed
crustal arc cross-section in the world. This Paleozoic magmatic arc and orogenic system on …

[HTML][HTML] Early Paleozoic accretionary orogens along the Western Gondwana margin

S Oriolo, B Schulz, S Geuna, PD González… - Geoscience …, 2021 - Elsevier
Early Paleozoic accretionary orogens dominated the Western Gondwana margin and were
characterized by nearly continuous subduction associated with crustal extension and back …

Ultrafast magmatic buildup and diversification to produce continental crust during subduction

MN Ducea, GW Bergantz, JL Crowley… - …, 2017 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
The processes and fluxes that produce the distinct compositional structure of Earth's
continental crust by subduction remain controversial. The rates of oceanic crust production …

Neogene retroarc foreland basin evolution, sediment provenance, and magmatism in response to flat slab subduction, western Argentina

TN Capaldi, BK Horton, NR McKenzie… - …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Understanding the effects of flat slab subduction on mountain building, arc magmatism, and
basin evolution is fundamental to convergent‐margin tectonics, with implications for …