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 …

Iron formation: the sedimentary product of a complex interplay among mantle, tectonic, oceanic, and biospheric processes

A Bekker, JF Slack, N Planavsky… - Economic …, 2010 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
Iron formations are economically important sedimentary rocks that are most common in
Precambrian sedimentary successions. Although many aspects of their origin remain …

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 …

New evidence of an Ediacaran age for the Bambuí Group in southern São Francisco craton (eastern Brazil) from zircon U–Pb data and isotope chemostratigraphy

GM Paula-Santos, M Babinski, M Kuchenbecker… - Gondwana …, 2015 - Elsevier
Extensive carbonate–siliciclastic successions of the Bambuí Group, which overlie
Neoproterozoic glaciogenic diamictites, cover most of the southern São Francisco craton …

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 …

Chemostratigraphic correlation of Neoproterozoic successions in South America

A Misi, AJ Kaufman, J Veizer, K Powis, K Azmy… - Chemical …, 2007 - Elsevier
The Neoproterozoic successions of South America largely accumulated during extensional
events associated with the breakup of Rodinia. These units are preserved as thick carbonate …

The Cuchilla Dionisio Terrane, Uruguay: an allochthonous block accreted in the Cambrian to SW-Gondwana

J Bossi, C Gaucher - Gondwana Research, 2004 - Elsevier
The Cuchilla Dionisio Terrane (CDT) of Uruguay is a tectonostratigraphic unit defined as the
block to the east of the Sierra Ballena Shear Zone (SBSZ). It is composed of a Palaeo-to …

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 …

Chemostratigraphy of the Tamengo Formation (Corumbá Group, Brazil): a contribution to the calibration of the Ediacaran carbon-isotope curve

PC Boggiani, C Gaucher, AN Sial, M Babinski… - Precambrian …, 2010 - Elsevier
The Corumbá Group, cropping out in the southern Paraguay Belt in Brazil, is one of the most
complete Ediacaran sedimentary archives of palaeogeographic, climatic, biogeochemical …