Antarctica—before and after Gondwana

SD Boger - Gondwana Research, 2011 - Elsevier
The origin of the Antarctic continent can be traced to a relatively small late Archaean cratonic
nucleus centred on the Terre Adélie regions of East Antarctica and the Gawler Craton region …

Timing of crust formation and recycling in accretionary orogens: Insights learned from the western margin of South America

H Bahlburg, JD Vervoort, SA Du Frane, B Bock… - Earth-Science …, 2009 - Elsevier
Accretionary orogens are considered major sites of formation of juvenile continental crust. In
the central and southern Andes this is contradicted by two observations: siliciclastic fills of …

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 …

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 …

Timing constraints on building an intermediate plutonic arc crustal section: U‐Pb zircon geochronology of the Sierra Valle Fértil–La Huerta, Famatinian Arc, Argentina

MN Ducea, JE Otamendi, G Bergantz, KM Stair… - …, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
The Sierra Valle Fértil Range in northwestern Argentina exposes a tilted crustal section
through the Ordovician Famatinian arc, from> 25 km to shallow crustal paleodepths …

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 …

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 …

The Western Sierras Pampeanas: Protracted Grenville-age history (1330–1030 Ma) of intra-oceanic arcs, subduction–accretion at continental-edge and AMCG …

CW Rapela, RJ Pankhurst, C Casquet, E Baldo… - Journal of South …, 2010 - Elsevier
New U–Pb SHRIMP zircon ages combined with geochemical and isotope investigation in
the Sierra de Maz and Sierra de Pie de Palo and a xenolith of the Precordillera basement …

Accretion of Grenvillian terranes to the southwestern border of the Río de la Plata craton, western Argentina

R Varela, MAS Basei, PD González, AM Sato… - International Journal of …, 2011 - Springer
A comprehensive review of the geological, geochronological, and isotopic features of the
Mesoproterozoic Grenvillian terranes attached to the southwest of the Río de la Plata craton …

Ages of pre-rift basement and synrift rocks along the conjugate rift and transform margins of the Argentine Precordillera and Laurentia

WA Thomas, RD Tucker, RA Astini… - …, 2012 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
New geochronologic data from basement rocks support the interpretation that the Argentine
Precordillera (Cuyania) terrane was rifted from the Ouachita embayment of the Iapetan …