The Amazon-Laurentian connection as viewed from the Middle Proterozoic rocks in the central Andes, western Bolivia and northern Chile

Tectonics

Volumn 15, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 827-842

  Tosdal, Richard M ^a,b  

^a U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^b NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMAZON CRATON; AREQUIPA-ANTOFALLA CRATON; BASEMENT ROCK; LAURENTIA; LEAD ISOTOPE; PROTEROZOIC; TECTONIC RECONSTRUCTION;

BOLIVIA, ANDES; CHILE, ANDES;

BUILDINGS; CRYSTALLINE MATERIALS; CRYSTALLINE ROCKS; ISOTOPES; LEAD; METAMORPHIC ROCKS; MINERALS; ROCKS; SILICATE MINERALS; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY; TECTONICS; ZIRCON;

EASTERN NORTH AMERICA; EVOLUTION HISTORY; GRANULITE FACIES; ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; MINERAL ASSEMBLAGE; PROTEROZOIC BASEMENT; TECTONIC BOUNDARIES; WESTERN SOUTH AMERICA;

SEDIMENTARY ROCKS;

EID: 0030485014     PISSN: 02787407     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/95TC03248     Document Type: Article

References (71)

1. Abbruzzi, J., S.M. Kay, and M.E. Bickford, Implications for the nature of the Precordilleran basement from Precambrian xenoliths in Miocene volcanic rocks, San Juan Province, Argentina, Actas XII Cong. Geol. Argentina y II Cong. Explor. Hidrocarb, 3, 331-339, 1993.
2. Aitcheson, S., R.S. Harmon, S. Moorbath, A. Schneider, P.Soler, E. Soria-Escalante, G. Steele, I. Swainbank, and G. Wörner, Pb isotopes define basement domains of the altiplano, central Andes, Geology., 23, 555-558, 1995.
3. Ashwal, L.D., and J.L. Wooden, River Valley pluton, Ontario: A late-Archean/early Proterozoic anorthositic intrusion in the Grenville Province, Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta, 53, 633-642, 1989.
4. Astini, R.A., J.L. Benedetto, and N.E. Vaccari, The early Paleozoic evolution of the Argentine Precordillera as a Laurentian rifted, drifted, and collided terrane: A geodynamic model, Geol. Soc. Am. Bull., 107, 253-273, 1995.
5. Ayso, R.A., Lead-isotopic evidence for distinct source of granite and for distinct basements in the northern Appalachian, Maine, Geology, 14, 322-325, 1986.
6. Ayuso, R.A., and M.L. Bevier, Regional differences in Pb isotopic compositions of feldspars in plutonic rocks of the northern Appalachian Mountains, U.S.A., and Canada: A geochemical method of terrane correlation, Tectonics, 10, 191-212, 1991.
7. Baeza, L., and S. Pichowiak, Ancient crystalline basement provinces in the north H Chilean Central Andes - Relics of continental crust development since the mid-Proterozoic, in The Southern Central Andes: Lecture Notes in Earth Sciences , vol. 17, edited by H. Bahlburg, C. Breitkreuz and P. Giese, 17, 3-24, Springer-Verlag, New York, 1988.
8. Bahlburg, H., The hypothetical Pacific B continent revisited: New evidence from the Mid-Paleozoic basins of northern Chile, Geology, 21, 909-912, 1993.
9. Barreiro, B.A., Lead isotope evidence for crust-mantle interaction during magmagenesis in the South Sandwich Island arc and in the Andes of South America, Ph.D. thesis, 173 pp., Univ. of Calif., Santa Barbara, 1982
10. Barreiro, B.A., and A.M. Clark, Lead isotopic evidence for evolutionary changes in magma-crust interaction, Central Andes, Southern Perú, Earth Planet. Sci. Lett, 69, 30-42, 1984.
11. Borg, S.G., and D.J. DePaolo, Laurentia, Australia, and Antartica as a Late Proterozoic supercontinent: Constraints from isotopic mapping, Geology, 22, 307-310, 1994.
12. Cameron, K.L., J.V. Robinson, S. Niemeyer, G.J. Nimz, D.C. Kuentz, R.S. Harmon, S.R. Bohlen, and K.D. Collerson, Contrasting styles of pre-Cenozoic and mid-Tertiary crustal evolution in northern Mexico: Evidence from deep crustal xenoliths from La Olivina, Jour. Geophys. Res., 97, 17, 353-17,376, 1992.
13. Coira, B., J. Davidson, C. Mpodozis, and V. Ramos, Tectonic and magmatic evolution of the Andes of northern Argentina and Chile: Earth Science Rev., 18, 303-332, 1982.
14. Cordani, U.G., K. Kawashita, G.C. Siegel, and J.C. Vicente, Geochronologic results from the southeastern part of the Arequipa Massif, Comunicaciones, 35, 45-51, 1985.
15. Cummings, G.L., S.E. Kesler, and D. Kristic, Isotopic composition of lead in Mexican mineral deposits, Econ. Geol., 74, 1395-1407, 1979.
16. Dalla Salda, L., C. Cingolani, and R. Varela, The early Paleozoic Famatinian belt of the Andes in southwestern South America; result of Laurentia-Gondwana collision, Geology, 20, 617-620, 1992a.
17. Dalla Salda, L., I.W. Dalziel, C. Cingolani, and R. Varela, R., Did the Taconic Appalachians continue into southern South America?, Geology, 20, 1059-1062, 1992b.
18. Dalziel, I.W.D., On the organization of American plates in the Neoproterozoic and the breakout of Laurentia, GSA Today, 2, 237-241, 1992.
19. Dalziel, I.W.D., Precambrian Scotland as a Laurentia-Gondwana link: Origin and significance of cratonic promontories, Geology, 22, 589-592, 1994.
20. Dalziel, I.W.D., L.H. Dalla Salda, and L.M. Gahagan, Paleozoic Laurentia-Gondwana interaction and the origin of the Appalachian-Andean mountain system, Geol Soc. Am. Bull., 106, 243-252, 1994.
21. Dalmayrac, B., J.R. Lancelot, and A. Leyreloup, Evidence of 2 By granulites in the late Precambrian metamorphic basement along the southern Peruvian coast, Science, 198, 49-51, 1977.
22. Dalmayrac, B., G. Laubacher, and R. Morocco, Caracteres generales de la evolucion geologica de los Andes Peruanos, Inst. Geol. Min. Metal., 12, 313 pp., 1988.
23. Damm, K.-W, S. Pichowiak, R.S. Harmon, W. Todt, S. Kelley, R. Omarini, and H. Niemaeyer, Pre-Mesozoic evolution of the central Andes: The basement revisited, Special Paper Geol. Soc. Am., 241, 101-126, 1990.
24. DeWolf, C.P., and K. Mezger, Lead isotope analyses of leached feldspars: Constraints on the early crustal history of the Grenville Orogen, Geochim Cosmochim. Acta, 58, 5537-5550, 1994.
25. Evernden, J.F., S.J. Kriz, and M.C. Cherroni, Potassium-argon ages of some Bolivian rocks: Econ. Geol., 72, 1042-1061, 1977.
26. Forsythe, R.D., J. Davidson, C. Mpodozis, and C. Jesinkey, Lower Paleozoic relative motion of the Arequipa block and Gondwana; Paleomagnetic evidence from Sierra de Almeida of northern Chile, Tectonics, 12, 219-236, 1993.
27. Hoffman, P.P., Did the breakout of Laurentia turn Gondwanaland inside-out?, Science, 252, 1408-1412, 1991.
28. Krogh, T.E., A low contamination method for the hydrothermal decomposition of zircon and extraction of U and Pb for isotopic age determinations, Geoch. Cosmoch. Acta, 37, 485-494, 1973.
29. Lavenu, A., Etude tectonique et neotectonique de l'altiplan et de la Cordillere Orientale des Andes Boliviennes, Paris, Trav. Doc. ORSTROM, 420 pp., 1986.
30. Lehmann, B., A Precambrian core sample from the Altiplano/Bolivia, Geol. Rundsch., 67, 270-278, 1978.
31. Litherland, M., et al., The Proterozoic of eastern Bolivia and its relationship to the Andean mobile belt: Precambrian Res., 43, 157-174, 1989
32. Macfarlane, A.W., P. Marcel, A.P. LeHuray, and U. Peterson, Lead isotope provinces of the central Andes inferred from ores and crustal rocks, Econ. Geol., 85, 1857-1880, 1990.
33. Martinez, C., Structure et évolution de la chaîne andine dans le nord de la Cordillère des Andes de Bolivie. Trav. Doc.,ORSTROM, 119, 226-230, 1980.
34. Mattinson, J.M., U-Pb ages of zircons: A basic examination of error propagation, Chem. Geol., 66, 151-162, 1987.
35. McDonough, M.R., V.A. Ramos, C.E. Isachsen, S.A. Bowring, and G.I. Vujovich, Edades preliminares de circones del basamento de La Sierra de Pie de Palo, Sierras Pampeanas occidentales de San Juan: Sus implicacias para el supercontinente Proterozoico de Rodinia, Actas XII Cong. Geol. Argentine y II Cong. Explor. Hidrocarb., 3, 340-342, 1993.
36. Mégard, F., Cordilleran Andes and marginal Andes: A review of Andean geology north of the Arica Elbow (18° S.), in Circum-Pacific Orogenic Belts and Evolution of the Pacific Ocean Basin, Geodyn. Ser., vol. 18, edited by J.W.H. Monger and J. Francheteau, pp. 71-95, AGU, Washington, D.C., 1987.
37. Mezger, K., C.M. Rawnsley, S.R. Bohlen, and G.N. Hanson, U-Pb garnet, sphene, monazite, and rutile ages: Implications for the duration of high-grade metamorphism and cooling histories, Adirondack Mts., New York, J. Geol., 99, 415-428, 1990.
38. Montgomery, C.W., Uranium-lead geochronology of the Archean Imataca Series, Venezuelan Guyana Shield, Contrib. Mineral. Petrol., 69, 167-176, 1979.
39. Moorbath, S., 1973, The bearing of lead isotope studies on the evolution of the Lewisian basement complex of northwest Scotland, Geochronology-isotope geology of Scotland, Field Guide and Reference, edited by Pidgeon, R.T., c1-c6, European Colloquium on Geochronology, Oxford, England, 1973.
40. Mukasa, S.B., and D.J. Henry, The San Nicolás batholith of coastal Peru: Early Palaeozoic continental arc or continental rift magmatism? J. Geol. Soc. London, 147, 27-39, 1990.
41. Murillo-Muneton, G., J.L. Anderson, and R.M. Tosdal, A new Grenville-age granulite terrane in southern Mexico, Geol. Soc. Am. Abs. Programs, 26 (2), 76, 1994.
42. Nance, R.D., and J.B. Murphy, Contrasting basement isotopic signatures and the palinspastic restoration of peripheral orogens: Example for the Neoproterozoic Avalonian-Cadomian belt, Geology, 22, 617-620, 1994.
43. Oversby, V.M., Lead isotope in Archean plutonic rocks, Earth Planet. Sci. Lett., 38, 237-248, 1978.
44. Pacci, D., F. Munizaga, F. Hervé, K. Kawashita, and U. Cordani, Acerca de la edad Rb-Sr precâmbrica de rocks de la Formacion Esquisos de Belén, Departamento de Parinacota, Chile, Rev. Geol. Chile, 11, 43-50, 1980.
45. Pettijohn, F.J., P.E. Potter, and R. Siever, Sand and Sandstone, 2nd ed., 553 pp., Springer-Verlag, New York, 1987.
46. Ramos, V.A., Late Proterozoic-Early Paleozoic of South America-A collisional history. Episodes, 11 (3), 168-174, 1988.
47. Ramos, V.A., T.E. Jordan, R.W. Allmendinger, C. Mpodozis, S.M. Kay, J.M. Cortés, and M. Palma, Paleozoic terranes of the central Argentine-Chilean Andes, Tectonics, 5, 855-880, 1986.
48. Rogers, G., and C.J. Hawkesworth, A geochemical traverse across the north Chilean Andes: evidence for crust generation from the mantle wedge. Earth Planet. Sci. Lett., 91, 271-285, 1989.
49. Sadowski, G.R., and J.S. Bettencourt, Mesoproterozoic tectonic correlations between east Laurentia and the western border of the Amazon craton, Precambrian Res., in press, 1996.
50. Schärer, U., Rapid continental crust formation at 1.7 Ga from a reservoir with chondritic isotope signatures, eastern Labrador, Earth Planet. Sci. Let., 102, 110-133, 1991.
51. Schmitz, M., A balanced model of the southern Central Andes, Tectonics, 13, 484-492, 1994.
52. Sedlock, R.L., F. Ortega-Gutierrez, and R.C. Speed, Tectonostratigraphic terranes and tectonic evolution of Mexico,Spec. Pap.Geol. Soc. Am. 278, 153 pp., 1993.
53. Sevigny, J.H., and G.N. Hanson, Orogenic evolution of the New England Appalachians of southwestern Connecticut, Geol. Soc. Am. Bull., 105, 1591-1605, 1993.
54. Shackleton, R. M., A.C. Ries, M.P. Coward, and P.R. Cobbold, Structure, metamorphism, and geochronology of the Arequipa massif of coastal Perú, J. Geol. Soc. London, 136, 195-214, 1979.
55. Stacey, J.S., and J.D. Kramers, Approximation of terrestrial lead isotope evolution by a two-stage model, Earth Planet. Sc. Let., 26, 207-221, 1975.
56. Stern, C.R., Role of subduction erosion in the generation of Andean magmas, Geology, 19, 78-81, 1991.
57. Tassinari, C.C.G., A porcao ocidental do Craton Amazonico: Evidencias isotópicas de acreacao continental no Proterozóico Medio, II Symp. Amaz. Anais, 439-446, 1984.
58. Teixeira, W., C.C.G. Tassinari, U.G. Cordani, and L. Kawashita, A review of the geochronology of the Amazonian craton: Tectonic implications, Precambrian Res., 42, 213-227, 1989.
59. Tilton, G.R., and B.A. Barreiro, Origin of lead in Andean calcalkaline lavas, southern Perú, Science, 210, 1245-1247, 1980.
60. Tosdal, R.M., Three Pb sources for Oligocene and Miocene precious metal deposits of the western Andean Cordillera, southern Peru, western Bolivia, and northern Chile, Communicaciones., 45, 77-80, 1994.
61. Tosdal, R.M., and J.S. Bettencourt, U-Pb zircon ages and Pb isotopic compositions of Middle Proterozoic Rondonian Massifs, southwestern margin of the Amazon craton, Brazil, VII Geol. Cong. Chile , Actas, II, 1538-1541, 1994.
62. Tosdal, R.M., F. Munizaga, W.C. Williams, and J.S. Bettencourt, Middle Proterozoic crystalline basement in the central Andes, western Bolivia and northern Chile: A U-Pb and Pb isotopic perspective, VII Geol. Cong. Chile , Actas, II, 1464-1467, 1994.
63. Wallace, A.R., R.F. Hardyman, R.M. Tosdal, N. Jimenez, J.L Lizeca, and F. Murillo, Cenozoic geology and mineral deposits of the Berenguela District, northwestern Bolivia: U.S. Geol. Sur. Bull. 2039, 79-86, 1993.
64. Wasteneys, H.A., A.H. Clark, E. Farrar, and R.J. Langridge, Grenvillian granulite-facies metamorphism in the Arequipa Massif, Peru: a Laurentia-Gondwana link, Earth Planet. Sci. Lett., 132, 63-73, 1995.
65. Whalen, J.B., G.A. Jenner, K.L. Currie, S.M. Barr, F.J. Langstaffe, and E. Hegner, Geochemical and isotopic characteristics of granitoids of the Avalon Zone, southern New Brunswick: Possible evidence for repeated delamination events, J. Geol., 102, p. 269-282, 1994.
66. Whitehouse, M.J., Pb-isotopic evidence for U-Th-Pb behavior in a prograde amphibolite to granulite facies transition from the Lewisian complex of north-west Scotland: Implications for Pb-Pb dating, Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta, 53, 717-724, 1989.
67. Wooden, J.L., and P.A. Mueller, Pb, Sr, and Nd isotopic compositions of a suite of Late Archean igneous rocks, eastern Beartooth Mountains: implications for crust-mantle evolution, Earth Planet. Sci. Lett., 87, 59-72, 1988.
68. Wooden, J.L., and E. DeWitt, Pb isotopic evidence for the boundary between the Early Proterozoic Mojave and Central Arizona crustal provinces in western Arizona, in Proterozoic Geology and Ore Deposits of Arizona edited by K.E. Karlstrom, Ariz, Geol. Soc. Dig 19, 27-50, 1991.
69. Wooden, J.L, G.K. Czamanske, R.M. Bouse, A.P. Likhachev, V.E. Kunilov, and V. Lyul'lp, Pb isotope data indicate a complex mantle origin for the Noril'sk Talnakh ores, Siberia. Econ. Geol., 87, 1153-1165, 1992.
70. Zartman, R.E., Lead isotopes in igneous rocks of the Grenville province as a possible clue to the presence of older crust, Geol. Assoc. Cana. Spec. Pap.5, 193-205, 1969.
71. Zartman, R.E., and G.J. Wasserburg, The isotopic composition of lead in potassium feldspars from some 1.0.-b.y.-old North American igneous rocks, Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta, 33, 901-942, 1969.