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 …

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 …

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 …

Ediacaran discs from South America: probable soft-bodied macrofossils unlock the paleogeography of the Clymene Ocean

MJ Arrouy, LV Warren, F Quaglio, DG Poiré… - Scientific Reports, 2016 - nature.com
The origin, affinity and paleoecology of macrofossils of soft-bodied organisms of the terminal
Ediacaran Period have been highly debated. Previous discoveries in South America are …

Corumbella and in situ Cloudina in association with thrombolites in the Ediacaran Itapucumi Group, Paraguay

LV Warren, TR Fairchild, C Gaucher, PC Boggiani… - Terra …, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
Terra Nova, 23, 382–389, 2011 Abstract An in situ assemblage of Cloudina, thrombolites
and an ichnofossil (cf. Archaeonassa), together with fragments of Corumbella werneri, is …

Tracking connection and restriction of West Gondwana São Francisco Basin through isotope chemostratigraphy

GM Paula-Santos, S Caetano-Filho, M Babinski… - Gondwana …, 2017 - Elsevier
C and Sr isotope compositions of carbonate rocks from the intracontinental São Francisco
basin can track ocean connections and restriction. The lower three formations of the Bambuí …

A provenance study of the Paleozoic Ventania System (Argentina): Transient complex sources from Western and Eastern Gondwana

VA Ramos, F Chemale, M Naipauer, PJ Pazos - Gondwana Research, 2014 - Elsevier
Abstract The U–Pb and Lu–Hf isotopic analyses of the different sedimentary sequences of
the Ventania System, an old Paleozoic orogenic belt exposed in the southern region of the …

The provenance of Avalonia and its tectonic implications: a critical reappraisal

JB Murphy, RD Nance, L Wu - 2023 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
Abstract The late Neoproterozoic–Cambrian interval is characterized by global-scale
orogenesis, rapid continental growth and profound changes in Earth systems. Orogenic …

Extension and general evolution of the Río de la Plata Craton

J Bossi, C Cingolani - Developments in Precambrian Geology, 2009 - Elsevier
The Río de la Plata Craton (RPC) comprises part of southern Brazil, Paraguay, Uruguay and
the central-eastern sector of Argentina. To the north, the RPC is bounded by the southern …