The accretionary history of southern South America from the latest Proterozoic to the Late Palaeozoic: Some palaeomagnetic constraints

Geological Society Special Publication

Volumn 246, Issue , 2005, Pages 305-328

  Rapalini, Augusto E ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD DE BUENOS AIRES   (Argentina)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCRETIONARY PRISM; CONTINENTAL CRUST; CRUSTAL EVOLUTION; OROGENY; PALEOMAGNETISM; TERRANE;

SOUTH AMERICA; WESTERN HEMISPHERE; WORLD;

LAURENTIA; PUNA;

EID: 23844497824     PISSN: 03058719     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1144/GSL.SP.2005.246.01.12     Document Type: Review

References (147)

1. Aceñolaza, F.G. 1992. El sistema Ordovícico en Latinoamérica. In: Gutierrez Marco, J.C., Saavedra, J. & Rábano, I. (eds) El Paleozoico Inferior de IberoAmérica. Universidad de Extremadura, Spain, 85-118.
2. Aceñolaza, F.G. & TOSELLI, A.J. 1981. Geología del noroeste argentino. Facultad de Ciencias Naturales, Universidad Nacional de Tucumán, Argentina, Publicación Especial.
3. Aceñolaza, F.G., Miller, H. & Toselli, A.J. 2002. Proterozoic-Early Paleozoic evolution in western South America - a discussion. Tectonophysics, 354, 121-137.
4. Aceñolaza, F.G., Miller, H. & Toselli, A.J. 2003. Reply to Discussion of Proterozoic-Early Paleozoic evolution in western South America - a discussion, by Astini and Rapalini. Tectonophysics, 366, 149-151.
5. Allmendinger, R.W., Ramos, V.A., Jordan, T.E., Palma M. & Isacks, B.L. 1983. Paleogeography and Andean structural geometry, NW Argentina. Tectonics, 2, 1-16.
6. Astini, R.A. 1998. Stratigraphic evidence supporting the rifting, drifting and collision of the Laurentian Precordillera terrane of western Argentina. In: Pankhurst, R.J. & Rapela, C.W. (eds) The Proto-Andean Margin of Gondwana. Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 142, 11-33.
7. Astini, R.A. 2003. The Ordovician Proto-Andean basins. In: Benedetto, J.L. (ed.) Ordovician fossils of Argentina. Secretaría de Ciencias y Tecnología, Universidad Nacional de Córdoba, 1-74.
8. Astini, R.A. & Benedetto, J.L. 1996. Paleoenvironmental features and basin evolution of a complex volcanic-arc region in the pre-Andean western Gondwana: the Famatina belt. Third International Symposium on Andean Geodynamics, St. Malo, France, Extended Abstracts, ORSTOM editions, Paris, 755-758.
9. Astini, R.A. & Dávila, F.M. 2004. Ordovician back arc foreland and Ocloyic thrust belt development on the western Gondwana margin as a response to Precordillera terrane accretion. Tectonics, 23, DOI: 10.1029/2003TC001564.
10. Astini, R.A. & Rapalini, A.E. 2003. Discussion to 'Proterozoic-Early Paleozoic evolution in western South America - a discussion'. Tectonophysics, 366, 143-148.
11. Astini, R.A., Benedetto, J.L. & Vaccari, N.E. 1995. The early Paleozoic evolution of the Argentine Precordillera as a Laurentian rifted, drifted and collided terrane: a geodynamic model. Geological Society of America Bulletin, 107, 253-273.
12. Bahlburg, H. & Hervé, F. 1997. Geodynamic evolution and tectonostratigraphic terranes of northwestern Argentina and northern Chile. Geological Society of America Buletin, 109, 869-881.
13. Baldis, B., Peralta, S. & Villegas, C. 1989a. Esquematizaciones de una posible transcurrencia del Terrane Precordillera. In: Proyecto IGCP 270, Correlación Geológica, San Miguel de Tucumán, 5, 81-100.
14. Baldis, B., Bordonaro, O., Armella, C., Beresi, M., Cabaleri, N., Peralta, S. & Bastías, H. 1989b. La Cuenca Paleozoica Inferior de la Precordillera Argentina. In: Chebli, G. & Spalletti, L.A. (eds) Cuencas Sedimentarias Argentinas. Universidad Nacional de Tucumán, Tucumán, Buenos Aires, 101-121.
15. Baldo, E., Casquet, C. & Galindo, C. 1996. El metamorfismo de la Sierra Chica de Córdoba (Sierras Pampeanas), Argentina. Geogaceta, 19, 48-51.
16. Basei, M.A.S., Siga Jr., O., Masquelin, H., Harara, O.M., Reis Neto, J.M. & Preciozzi Porta, F. 2000. The Dom Feliciano Belt and the Rio de la Plata Craton: tectonic evolution and correlation with similar provinces of southwestern Africa. In: Cordani, U.G., Milani, E.J., Thomaz Filho, A. & Campos, D.A. (eds) Tectonic Evolution of South America, 31st International Geological Congress, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 311-334.
17. Beck, M.E., García, A., Burmester, R.F., Munizaga, F., Hervé, F. & Drake, R. 1991. Paleomagnetism and geochronology of Late Paleozoic granitic rocks from the Lake District of southern Chile: Implications for accretionary tectonics. Geology, 19, 332-335.
18. Benedetto, J.L. 1993. La hipótesis de la aloctonía de la Precordillera Argentina: un test estratigráfico y biogeográfico. 12th Congreso Geológico Argentino, Actas, 3, Asociación Geológica Argentina, Buenos Aires, 375-384.
19. Benedetto, J.L. 1998. Early Palaeozoic brachiopods and associated shelly faunas from western Gondwana: their bearing on the geodynamic history of the pre-Andean margin. In: Pankhurst, R.J. & Rapela, C.W. (eds) The Proto-Andean Margin of Gondwana. Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 142, 57-83.
20. Benedetto, J.L. (ed.) 2003. Ordovician fossils of Argentina. Secretaría de Ciencias y Tecnología, Universidad Nacional de Córdoba, Argentina.
21. Benedetto, J.L. & Sanchez, T.M. 1996. Paleobiogeography of brachiopod and molluscan faunas along the South American margin of Gondwana during the Ordovician. In: Baldis, B.A. & Aceñolaza, F.G. (eds) Early Paleozoic Evolution in NW Gondwana, Serie Correlación Geológica, San Miguel de Tucumán, Argentina, 12, 23-38.
22. Benedetto, J.L., Sanchez, T.M., Carrera, M.G., Brussa, E.D. & Salas, M.J. 1999. Paleontological constraints on succesive paleogeographic positions of Precordillera terrane during the Early Paleozoic. In: Ramos, V.A. & Keppie, J.D. (eds) Laurentia-Gondwana connections before Pangea. Geological Society of America Special Paper, 336, 21-42.
23. Blasco, G., Villar, L. & Zappettini, E.O. 1996. El complejo ofiolítico desmembrado de la Puna argentina. Provincias de Jujuy, Salta y Catamarca. 13th Congreso Geológico Argentino & III Congreso de Exploración de Hidrocarburos, Actas, 3, Asociación Geológica Argentina, Buenos Aires, 653-667.
24. Bond, G.C., Nickeson, P.A. & Kominz, M.A. 1984. Breakup of a supercontinent between 625 and 555 Ma: New evidence and implications for continental histories. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 70, 325-345.
25. Briden, J.C., McClelland, E. & Rex, D.C. 1993. Proving the age of a paleomagnetic pole: the case of the Ntonya ring structure, Malawi. Journal of Geophysical Research, 98, 1743-1749.
26. Brito Neves, B.B., Campos Neto, M.C. & Fuck, R.A. 1999. From Rodinia to Western Gondwana: An approach to the Brasiliano-Pan African cycle and orogenic collage. Episodes, 22 (3), 155-166.
27. Cañas, F.L. 1999. Facies and sequences of the Late Cambrian-Early Ordovician carbonates of the Argentine Precordillera: A stratigraphic comparison with Laurentian platforms. In: Ramos, V.A. & Keppie, J.D. (eds) Laurentia-Gondwana connections before Pangea. Geological Society of America Special Paper, 336, 43-62.
28. Casquet, C., Baldo, E., Pankhurst, R.J., Rapela, C.W., Galindo, C., Fanning, C.M. & Saavedra, J. 2001. Involvement of the Argentine Precordillera terrane in the Famatinian mobile belt: U-Pb SHRIMP and metamorphic evidence from the Sierra de Pie de Palo. Geology, 29, 703-706.
29. Cawood, P.A., McCausland, P.J.A. & Dunning, G.R. 2001. Opening Iapetus: Constraints from the Laurentian margin in Newfoundland. Geological Society of America Bulletin, 113, 443-453.
30. Chernicoff, C.J. & Zappettini, E.O. 2003. Evidencias geofísicas para la delimitación de terrenos pre Gondwánicos en la región centro-austral argentina. 10th Congreso Geológico Chileno, Concepción, Actas (CD), Universidad de Concepción, Concepción.
31. Coira, B. 1973. Resultados preliminares sobre la petrología del ciclo eruptivo concomitante con la sedimentación de la Formación Acoyte en la zona de Abra Pampa, prov. de Jujuy. Revista de la Asociación Geológica Argentina, 27, 85-90.
32. Coira, B. & Koukharsky, M. 1991. Lavas en almohadillas ordovícicas en el cordón de Escaya, Puna Septentrional, Argentina. 6th Congreso Geológico Chileno, 1, Servicio Nacional de Geología y Minería, Chile, 674-678.
33. Coira, B., Davidson, J., Mpodozis C. & Ramos V. 1982. Tectonic and magmatic evolution of the Andes of northern Argentina and Chile. Earth Science Reviews, 18, 303-332.
34. Coira, B., Perez, B., Flores, P., Mahlburg, Kay, S., Woll, B. & Hanning, M. 1999. Magmatic sources and tectonic setting of Gondwana margin Ordovician magmas, northern Puna of Argentina and Chile. In: Ramos, V. & Keppie, D. (eds) Laurentia-Gondwana connections before Pangea. Geological Society of America Special Paper, 336, 143-170.
35. Conti, C.M., Rapalini A.E., Coira, B. & Koukharsky, M. 1996. Paleomagnetic evidence of an Early Paleozoic rotated terrane in NW Argentina. A clue for Gondwana-Laurentia interaction? Geology, 24, 953-956.
36. Cordani, U.G., Sato, K., Teixeira, W., Tassinari, C.C.G. & Basei, M.A.S. 2000. Crustal evolution of the South American platform. In: Cordani, U.G., Milani, E.J., Thomaz Filho, A. & Campos, D.A. (eds) Tectonic Evolution of South America, 31st International Geological Congress, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 19-40.
37. Cordani, U.G., D'Agrella, M.S.F., Brito-Neves, B.B. & Trindade, I.F. 2003. Tearing up Rodinia: the Neoproterozoic paleogeography of South America cratonic fragments. Terra Nova, 15, 350-359.
38. Curtis, M.L. 2001. Tectonic history of the Ellsworth mountains, West Antarctica: reconciling a Gondwana enigma. Geological Society of America Bulletin, 113, 939-958.
39. D'Agrella, M.S.F. & Pacca, I.G. 1988. Paleomagnetism of the Itajai, Castro and Bon Jardim Groups form southern Brazil. Geophysical Journal, 93, 365-376.
40. Dalla Salda, L., Cingolani, C. & Varela, R. 1990. The origin of Patagonia. Comunicaciones, una revista de Geología Andina, 41, 55-64.
41. Dalla Salda, L., Cingolani, C. & Varela, R. 1992. Early Paleozoic orogenic belt of the Andes in southwestern South America: Result of Laurentia-Gondwana collision? Geology, 20, 617-620.
42. Dalmayrac, B., Lancelot, J.R. & Leyreloup, A. 1977. Two billion year granulites in the late Precambrian metamorphic basement along the southern Peruvian coast. Science, 198, 49-51.
43. Dalmayrac, B., Laubacher, G., Marocco, R., Martinez, C. & Tomasi, P. 1980. La Chaine Hercynienne d'Amerique du Sud. Structure et evolution d'une orogene intracratonique. Geologische Rundschau, 69, 1-21.
44. Dalziel, I.W.D. 1993. Tectonic tracers and the origin of the proto-Andean margin. 12th Congreso Geológico Argentino, Actas, 3, Asociación Geológica Argentina, Buenos Aires, 367-374.
45. Dalziel, I.W.D. 1997 Neoproterozoic-Paleozoic geography and tectonics: Review, hypothesis, environmental speculation. Geological Society of America Bulletin, 109, 16-42.
46. Davis, J.S., Roeske, S.M., McClelland, W.C. & Snee, L.W. 1999. Closing the ocean between the Precordillera terrane and Chilenia: Early Devonian ophiolite emplacement and deformation in the southwest Precordillera. In: Ramos, V.A. & Keppie, J.D. (eds) Laurentia-Gondwana connections before Pangea. Geological Society of America Special Paper, 336, 115-138.
47. Escayola, M.P., Ramé, G.A. & Kraemer, P.E. 1996. Caracterización y significado geotectónico de las fajas ultramáficas de Córdoba. 13th Congreso Geológico Argentino, Buenos Aires, 3, Asociación Geológica Argentina, Buenos Aires, 421-438.
48. Finney, S., Gleason, J., Gehrels, G., Peralta, S. & Aceñolaza, G. 2003. Early Gondwanan connection for the Argentine Precordillera terrane. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 205, 349-359.
49. Finney, S., Gleason, J., Gehrels, G., Peralta, S. & Aceñolaza, G. 2004. Corrigendum to 'Early Gondwanan connection for the Argentine Precordillera terrane'. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 219, 413.
50. Forsythe, R. 1982. The late Paleozoic to early Mesozoic evolution of southern South America: A plate tectonic interpretation. Journal of the Geological Society, London, 139, 671-682.
51. Forsythe, R., Davidson, J., Mpodozis, C. & Jesinkey, C. 1993. Lower Paleozoic relative motion of the Arequipa block and Gondwana: paleomagnetic evidence from Sierra de Almeida of northern Chile. Tectonics, 12, 219-236.
52. Fragoso-Cesar, A.R.S. 1980. O cratón do Rio de la Plata e o Cinturao Dom Felicianono Escudo Uruguayo-sul Riograndense. Congreso Brasileiro de Geología, Anais, SBG, 31, Camboriú, 5, Sociedade Brasileira de Geofisica, São Paulo, 2879-2891.
53. Gangui, A. & Goetze, H.J. 1996. The deep structures of the northern Argentina: constraints from 2D seismic data and 3D gravity modeling. 13th Congreso Geológico Argentino & 3rd Congreso de Exploración de hidrocarburos, Buenos Aires, 2, Asociación Geológica Argentina, Buenos Aires, 545-565.
54. Gonzalez, P.D., Poiré, D.G. & Valera, R. 2002. Hallazgo de trazas fósiles en la Formación El Jaguelito y su relación con la edad de las metasedimentitas, Macizo Norpatagónico Oriental, provincia de Río Negro. Revista de la Asociación Geológica Argentina, 57, 35-44.
55. González Bonorino, F. & González Bonorino, G. 1991. Precordillera de Cuyo y Cordillera Frontal en el Paleozoico temprano: terrenos bajo sospecha de ser autóctonos. Revista Geológica de Chile, 18, 97-107.
56. Götze, H.J. & Kirchner A. 1997. Gravity field at the South American active margin (20° to 29° S). Journal of South American Earth Sciences, 2, 179-188.
57. Grunow, A., Hanson R. & Wilson, T. 1996. Were aspects of Pan-African deformation linked to Iapetus opening? Geology, 24, 1063-1066.
58. Haller, M. & Ramos, V. 1984. Las ofiolitas famatinianas (Eopaleozoico) de las provincias de San Juan y Mendoza. 9th Congreso Geológico Argentino, S. C Bariloche, 2, Asociación Geológica Argentina, Buenos Aires, 66-83.
59. Hoffman, P.F. 1991. Did the breakout of Laurentia turn Gondwanaland inside-out? Science, 252, 1409-1412.
60. Ježek, P., Wilner, A.P., Aceñolaza, F. & Miller, H. 1985. The Puncoviscana trough - a large basin of Late Precambrian to Early Cambrian age on the Pacific edge of the Brasilian shield. Geologische Rundschau, 74, 573-584.
61. Keller, M., Buggisch, W. & Lehnert, O. 1998. The stratigraphical record of the Argentine Precordillera and its plate-tectonic background. In : Pankhurst, R.J. & Rapela, C.W. (eds) The Proto-Andean Margin of Gondwana. Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 142, 35-56.
62. Kellogg, K.S. & Beckmann, G.E.J. 1983. Paleomagnetic investigations of Upper Proterozoic rocks in eastern Arabian Shield, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. Bulletin of the Faculty of Earth Sciences, King Abdullaziz University, 6, 483-500.
63. Kempf, O., Kellerhals, P., Lowrie, W. & Matter, A. 2000. Paleomagnetic directions in Late Precambrian glaciomarine sediments of the Mirbat Sandstone formation, Oman. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 175, 181-190.
64. Keppie, J.D. & Bahlburg, H. 1999. Puncoviscana formation of northwestern and central Argentina: passive margin or foreland basin deposit? In : Ramos, V. & Keppie, D. (eds) Laurentia - Gondwana connections before Pangea. Geological Society of America Special Paper, 336, 139-143.
65. Keppie, J.D. & Ramos, V.A. 1999. Odyssey of terranes in the Iapetus and Rheic oceans during the Paleozoic. In: Ramos, V. & Keppie, D. (eds) Laurentia - Gondwana connections before Pangea. Geological Society of America Special Paper, 336, 267-276.
66. Koukharsky, M. & Mirré, J.C. 1974. Nuevas evidencias del vulcanismo ordovícico en la Puna. Revista de la Asociación Geológica Argentina, 29, 128-134.
67. Kraemer, P.E., Escayola, M.P. & Martino, R.D. 1995. Hipótesis sobre la evolución tectónica neoproterozoica de las Sierras Pampeanas de Córdoba (30°40′-32°40′). Revista de la Asociación Geológica Argentina, 50, 47-59.
68. Kroner, A. & Cordani, U. 2003. African and South American cratons were not part of the Rodinia supercontinent: evidence from field relationships and geochronology. Tectonophysics, 375, 325-352.
69. Lork, A. & Bahlburg, H. 1993. Precise U-Pb ages of monazites from the Faja Eruptiva de la Puna Oriental and the Cordillera Oriental, NW Argentina. 12th Congreso Geológico Argentino & II Congreso de Exploración de Hidrocarburos, Mendoza, 4, Asociación Geológica Argentina, Buenos Aires, 1-6.
70. Lottes, A.L & Rowley, D.B. 1990. Reconstruction of the Laurasian and Gondwanan segments of Permian Pangaea. In: McKerrow, W.S. & Scotese, C.R. (eds) Palaeozoic Palaeogeography and Biogeography. Geological Society, London, Memoirs, 12, 383-395.
71. Lucassen, F., Becchio, R., Wilke, H., Franz, G., Thirlwall, M., Viramonte, J. & Wemmer, K. 2000. Proterozoic-Paleozoic development of the Central Andes (18-26 S) - a mobile belt of the South American craton. Journal of South American Earth Sciences, 13, 697-715.
72. Lucassen F., Becchio R., Harmon R. et al. 2001. Composition and density model of the continental crust in an active continental margin - the Central Andes between 18° and 27°S. Tectonophysics, 341, 195-223.
73. Mahlburg Kay, S., Ramos, V.A. & Kay, R. 1984. Elementos mayoritarios y trazas de las vulcanitas ordovícicas de la Precordillera Occidental: basaltos de rift oceánico temprano (?) próximos al márgen continental. 9th Congreso Geológico Argentino, S.C. Bariloche, 2, Asociación Geológica Argentina, Buenos Aires, 48-65.
74. Mahlburg Kay, S.M., Orrell, S. & Abruzzi, J.M. 1996. Zircon and whole rock Nd-Pb isotopic evidence for a Grenville age and Laurentian origin for the basement of the Precordilleran terrane in Argentina. Journal of Geology, 104, 637-648.
75. Mannheim, R. 1993. Génesis de las volcanitas eopaleozoicas del sistema de Famatina. 12th Congreso Geológico Argentino, Mendoza, 4, Asociación Geológica Argentina, Buenos Aires, 147-155.
76. Martinez, C. 1980. Geologie des Andes boliviennes. Travaux et documents de l'Ostrom No. 119, París.
77. Martino, R., Kraemer, P. Escayola, M., Giambastianai, M. & Arnosio, M. 1995. Transecta de las Sierras Pampeanas de Córodoba a los 32°S. Revista de la Asociación Geológica Argentina, 50, 60-77.
78. McElhinny, M.W. & McFadden, P.L. 2000. Paleomagnetism. Academic Press, New York, San Diego, California.
79. Meert, J.G. 2001. Growing Gondwana and rethinking Rodinia: a paleomagnetic perspective. Gondwana Research, 4, 279-288.
80. Meert, J.G. 2003. A synopsis of events related to the assembly of Eastern Gondwana. Tectonophysics, 362, 1-40.
81. Meert, J.G. & Torsvik, T.H. 2003. The making and unmaking of a supercontinent: Rodinia revisited. Tectonophysics, 375, 261-288.
82. 39 Ar study of the Sinyai dolerite, Kenya: implications for Gondwana assembly. Journal of Geology, 104, 131-142.
83. Meert, J.G., Van der Voo, R. & Payne, T.W. 1994. Paleomagnetism of the Catoctin volcanic province: a new Vendian - Cambrian apparent polar wander path for North America. Journal of Geophysical Research, 99, 4625-4641.
84. Miller, H., Hockenreiner, M. & Sollner, F. 2003. Opening and closure of an island arc-back arc system in the Early Paleozoic at the Gondwana margin: Famatinian system and Las Termas belt, NW Argentina. 10th Congreso Geológico Chileno, Concepción, Actas (CD), Universidad de Concepción, Concepción.
85. Morel, P. 1981. Paleomagnetism of a Pan-African diorite: a Late Precambrian pole for western Africa. Geophysical Journal of the Royal Astronomical Society, 65, 493-503.
86. Mosher, S. 1998. Tectonic evolution of the southern Laurentian Grenville orogenic belt. Bulletin of the Geological Society of America, 110, 1357-1375.
87. Murthy, G., Gower, C., Tubrett M. & Patzold, R. 1992. Paleomagnetism of Eocambrian Long Range dykes and Double Mer formation from Labrador, Canada. Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences, 29, 1224-1234.
88. Omarini R., Götze, H.J., Sureda, R.J., Seilacher, A. & Pflüger, F. 1999. Puncoviscana folded belt in NW Argentina: testimony of Late Proterozoic Rodinia fragmentation and pre-Gondwana collisional episodes. Geologische Rundschau, 88, 76-97.
89. Palma, M.A., Párica, P.D. & Ramos, V.A. 1986. El granito Archibarca: su edad y significado tectónico, provincia de Catamarca. Revista de la Asociación Geológica Argentina, 41, 414-419.
90. Pankhurst, R.J. & Rapela, C.A. (eds) 1998. The Proto-Andean margin of Gondwana. Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 142.
91. Pankhurst, R.J., Rapela, C.W., Saavedra, J., Baldo, E., Dahlquist, J., Pascua, I. & Fanning, C.M. 1998. The Famatinian magmatic arc in the central Sierras Pampeanas: an Early to Mid-Ordovician continental arc on the Gondwana margin. In: Pankhurst, R.J. & Rapela, C.W. (eds) The Proto-Andean Margin of Gondwana. Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 142, 343-367.
92. Passchier, C.W., Trouw, R.A.J., Ribeiro, A. & Paciullo, F.V.P. 2002. Tectonic evolution of the southern Kaoko belt, Namibia. Journal of African Earth Sciences, 35, 61-75.
93. Powell, C.McA. & Pisarevsky, S.A. 2002. Late Neoproterozoic assembly of East Gondwana. Geology, 30, 3-6.
94. Powell, C.McA., Li, Z.X., McElhinny, M.W., Meert, J.G. & Park, J.K. 1993. Paleomagnetic constraints on timing of the Neoproterozoic breakup of Rodinia and the Cambrian formation of Gondwana. Geology, 21, 889-892.
95. Prave, A.R. 1996. Tale of three cratons: Tectonostratigraphic anatomy of the Damara orogen in northwestern Namibia and the assembly of Gondwana. Geology, 24, 1115-1118.
96. Ramos, V.A. 1984. Patagonia: Un continente paleozoico a la deriva? 9° Congreso Geológico Argentino, S.C. Bariloche, 2. Asociación Geológica Argentina, Buenos Aires, 311-325.
97. Ramos, V. 1986. El diastrofismo Oclóyico: un ejemplo de tectónica de colisión durante el Eopaleozoico en el Noroeste Argentino. Revista del Instituto Geológico y Minero, Jujuy, Argentina, 6, 13-28.
98. Ramos, V.A. 1988. Late Proterozoic - Early Paleozoic of South America - a collisional history. Episodes, 11, 168-174.
99. Ramos, V.A. 1995. Sudamérica: un mosaico de continentes y océanos. Ciencia Hoy, Buenos Aires, 6, 24-29.
100. Ramos, V.A. 2000. The Southern Central Andes. In: Cordani, U.G., Milani, E.J., Thomaz Filho, A. & Campos, D.A. (eds) Tectonic Evolution of South America, 31st International Geological Congress, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 561-604.
101. Ramos, V.A. 2002. Evolución tectónica. In: Haller, M.J. (ed.) Geología y Recursos Naturales de Santa Cruz. Asociación Geológica Argentina, Buenos Aires, Relatorio, 15th Congreso Geológico Argentino, 365-387.
102. Ramos, V.A. & Basei, M. 1997. The basement of Chilenia: an exotic continental terrane to Gondwana during the Early Paleozoic. Symposium on Terrane dynamics '97, New Zealand, Christchurch, New Zealand, 140-143.
103. Ramos, V. & Keppie, D. (eds) 1999. Laurentia - Gondwana connections before Pangea. Geological Society of America Special Paper, 336.
104. Ramos, V.A., Jordan, T.E., Allmendinger, R.W., Mpodozis, C., Kay, S.M., Cortés, J.M. & Palma, M. 1986. Paleozoic terranes of the Central Argentine - Chilean Andes. Tectonics, 5, 855-880.
105. Ramos, V.A., Vujovich, G., Mahlburg Kay, S. & McDonough, M. 1993. La orogénesis de Grenville en las Sierras Pampeanas Occidentales: la Sierra de Pie de Palo y su integración al supercontinente proterozoico. 12th Congreso Geológico Argentino, Mendoza, 3, Asociación Geológica Argentina, Buenos Aires, 343-357.
106. Ramos, V.A., Dallmeyer, R.D. & Vujovich, G. 1998. Time constraints on the Early Paleozoic docking of the Precordillera, central Argentina. In: Pankhurst, R.J. & Rapela, C.W. (eds) The Proto-Andean Margin of Gondwana. Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 142, 143-158.
107. Ramos, V.A., Escayola, M., Mutti, D.I., Vujovich, G.I. 2000. Proterozoic - Early Paleozoic ophiolites of the Andean basement of southern South America. In: Dilek, Y., Moores, E.M., Elthon, D., & Nicolas, A. (eds) Ophiolites and Oceanic Crust: New insights from field studies and Ocean Drilling program. Geological Society of America Special Paper, 349, 331-349.
108. Rapalini, A.E. 1993. Evidencias de un evento de remagnetización regional en Precordillera asociado a la Fase San Rafael. 12th Congreso Geológico Argentino, Mendoza, 3, Asociación Geológica Argentina, Buenos Aires, 415-422.
109. Rapalini, A.E. 1998. Syntectonic magnetization of the Mid-Paleozoic Sierra Grande Formation. Further constraints for the tectonic evolution of Patagonia. Journal of the Geological Society, London, 155, 105-114.
110. Rapalini, A.E. 2003. New Late Proterozoic paleomagnetic data from the Rio de la Plata craton: implications for Pannotia and Gondwana. 10th Congreso Geológico Chileno, Concepción, Actas (CD), Universidad de Concepción, Concepción.
111. Rapalini, A.E. & Astini, R.A. 1998. Paleomagnetic confirmation of the Laurentian origin of the Argentine Precordillera. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 155, 1-14.
112. Rapalini, A.E. & Astini, R.A. 2005. La Remagnetización Sanrafaélica de la Precordillera: Nuevas Evidencias. Revista de la Asociación Geológica Argentina, 60, in press.
113. Rapalini, A. E. & Cingolani, C.A. 2004. First Late Ordovician paleomagnetic pole for the Cuyania (Precordillera) terrane of western Argentina: A microcontinent or a Laurentian plateau? Gondwana Research, 7, 1089-1104.
114. Rapalini, A.E. & Tarling, D.H. 1993. Multiple magnetizations in the Cambrian - Ordovician carbonate platform of the Argentine Precordillera and their tectonic implications. Tectonophysics, 227, 49-62.
115. Rapalini, A.E. & Vilas, J.F. 1991. Preliminary paleomagnetic data from the Sierra Grande Formation: tectonic consequences of the first Middle Paleozoic paleopoles from Patagonia. Journal of South American Earth Sciences, 4, 25-41.
116. Rapalini, A.E., Vilas, J.F., Bobbio, M.L. & Valencio, D.A. 1989. Geodynamic interpretations from paleomagnetic data of Late Paleozoic rocks in the Southern Andes. In: Hillhouse, J.W. (ed.) Deep structure and past kinematics of accreted terranes. American Geophysical Union, Geophysical Monograph Series, 50, 41-57.
117. Rapalini, A.E., Tarling, D.H., Turner, P., Flint, S. & Vilas, J.F. 1994. Palaeomagnetism of the Carboniferous Tepuel Group, central Patagonia, Argentina. Tectonics, 13, 1277-1294.
118. Rapalini, A.E., Astini, R.A. & Conti, C.M. 1999. Paleomagnetic constraints on the tectonic evolution of Paleozoic suspect terranes from southern South America. In: Ramos, V. & Keppie, D. (eds) Laurentia - Gondwana connections before Pangea, Geological Society of America Special Paper, 336, 171-182.
119. Rapalini, A.E., Bordonaro, O. & Berquo, T.S. 2000. Paleomagnetic study of Cambrian - Ordovician rocks in the Eastern Precordillera of Argentina: some constraints on the Andean uplift of this block. Tectonophysics, 326, 173-184.
120. Rapalini, A.E., Velasco, M.S. & Koukharsky, M. 2002. New paleomagnetic data from the Western Puna of Argentina: some tectonic speculations on its Early Paleozoic evolution. 5th International Symposium on Andean Geodynamics, Toulouse, France, Extended Abstracts, Institut de recherche pour le développement, Paris, 505-508.
121. Rapela, C.W. & Pankhurst, R.J. 2002. Eventos tectonomagmáticos del Paleozoico Inferior en el márgen proto-atlántico del sur de Sudamérica. 15th Congreso Geológico Argentino, El Calafate, 1, Asociación Geológica Argentina, Buenos Aires, 24-29.
122. Rapela, C.W., Pankhurst, R.J., Casquet, C., Baldo, E., Saavedra, J., Galindo, C. & Fanning, C.M. 1998a. The Pampean orogeny of the southern proto-Andes: Cambrian continental collision in the Sierras de Córdoba. In: Pankhurst, R.J. & Rapela, C.W. (eds) The Proto-Andean Margin of Gondwana. Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 142, 181-217.
123. Rapela, C.W., Pankhurst, R.J., Casquet, C., Baldo, E., Saavedra, J. & Galindo, C. 1998b. Early evolution of the Proto-andean margin of South America. Geology, 26, 707-710.
124. Rapela, C.W., Pankhurst, R.J., Fanning, C.M. & Grecco, L.E. 2003. Basement evolution of the Sierra de la Ventana fold belt: new evidence for Cambrian continental rifting along the southern margin of Gondwana. Journal of the Geological Society, London, 160, 613-628.
125. Saavedra, J., Toselli, A., Rossi, J., Pellitero, E. & Durand, F. 1998. The Early Paleozoic magmatic record of the Famatina System: a review. In: Pankhurst, R.J. & Rapela, C.W. (eds) The Proto-Andean Margin of Gondwana. Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 142, 283-295.
126. Sánchez Bettucci, L. & Rapalini, A.E. 2002. Paleomagnetism of the Sierra de las Animas complex, southern Uruguay: its implications in the assembly of Western Gondwana. Precambrian Research, 118, 243-265.
127. Saradeth, S., Soffel, H.C., Horn, P., Muller-Sohnius, D. & Schult, A. 1989. Upper Proterozoic and Phanerozoic pole positions and potassium-argon (K-Ar) ages from the East Sahara craton. Geophysical Journal, 97, 209-221.
128. Sato, A.M., Tickyj, H., Llambías, E.S. & SATO, K. 2000. The Las Matras tonalitic-trondjhemitic pluton, central Argentina: Grenvillian-age constraints, geochemical characteristics and regional implications. Journal of South American Earth Sciences, 13, 587-610.
129. Schwartz, J.J. & Gromet, L.P. 2004. Provenance of a late Proterozoic - early Cambrian basin, Sierras de Córdoba, Argentina. Precambrian Research, 129, 1-21.
130. Shackleton, R.M., Ries, A.C., Coward, M.P. & Cobbold, P.R. 1979. Structure, metamorphism and geochronology of the Arequipa Massif of coastal Perú. Journal of the Geological Society of London, 136, 195-214.
131. Thomas, W. & Astini, R.A. 1996. The Argentine Precordillera: a traveler from the Ouachita embayment of North American Laurentia. Science, 273, 752-757.
132. Thomas, W. & Astini, R.A. 1999. Simple-shear conjugate rift margins of the Argentine Precordillera and the Ouachita embayment of Laurentia. Geological Society of America Bulletin, 111, 1069-1079.
133. Thomas, W. & Astini, R.A. 2003. Ordovician accretion of the Argentine Precordillera terrane to Gondwana: a review. Journal of South American Earth Sciences, 16, 67-79.
134. Thomas, W., Astini, R.A. & Bayona, G. 2002. Ordovician collision of the Argentine Precordillera with Gondwana, independent of Laurentian Taconic orogeny. Tectonophysics, 345, 131-152.
135. Torsvik, T.H., Carter, L.M., Ashwal, L.D., Bhushan, S.K., Pandit, M.K. & Jamtveit, B. 2001. Rodinia refined or obscured: paleomagnetism of the Malani igneous complex (NW India). Precambrian Research, 108, 319-333.
136. Toselli, A., Durand, F, Rossi de Toselli, J. & Saavedra, J. 1996. Esquema de evolución geotectónica y magmática del eopaleozoica del sistema de Famatina y sectores de Sierras Pampeanas. 13th Congreso Geológico Argentino, Buenos Aires, 5, Asociación Geológica Argentina, Buenos Aires, 443-462.
137. Trompette, R. 1997. Neoproterozoic (∼600 Ma) aggregation of Western Gondwana: a tentative scenario. Precambrian Research, 82, 101-112.
138. Truco, S. & Rapalini, A.E. 1996. New evidence of a widespread Permian remagnetizing event in the central Andean zone of Argentina. Third International Symposium on Andean Geodynamics, St. Malo, France, Extended Abstracts, ORSTOM editions, Paris, 799-802.
139. Vaccari, N.E., Benedetto, J.L. Waisfeld, B.G. & Sanchez, T. 1992. La fauna de Neseuretus en la Formación Suri (oeste de Argentina): edad y relaciones paleobiogeográficas. Revista Española de Paleontología, 8, 185-190.
140. Van der Voo, R. 1990. The reliability of paleomagnetic data. Tectonophysics, 184, 1-9.
141. Villar, L. 1975. Las fajas y otras manifestaciones ultrabásicas en la República Argentina y su significado metalogénetico. 2nd Congreso Ibero-Americano de Geología Económica, Buenos Aires, 3, 135-155.
142. Von Gosen, W. 2002. Polyphase structural evolution in the northeastern segment of the North Patagonian Massif (southern Argentina). Journal of South American Earth Sciences, 15, 591-623.
143. Vujovich, G. & Mahlburg Kay, S. 1998. A Laurentian ? Grenville-age oceanic arc/back-arc terrane in the Sierra de Pie de Palo, Western Sierras Pampeanas, Argentina. In: Pankhurst, R.J. & Rapela, C.W. (eds) The Proto-Andean Margin of Gondwana. Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 142, 159-179.
144. Weil, A.B., Van der Voo, R., Mac Niocall, C. & Meert, J.G. 1998. The Proterozoic supercontinent Rodinia: paleomagnetically derived reconstructions for 1100 to 800 Ma. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 154, 13-24.
145. Windhausen, A. 1931. Geología Argentina. II parte. Geología Histórica y regional del territorio argentino. Editorial Peusser, Buenos Aires.
146. Winter, H. de la R. 1984. Tectonostratigraphy as applied to analysis of South African Phanerozoic basins. Transactions of the Geological Society of South Africa, 87, 169-179.
147. Zimmermann, U. & Bahlburg, H. 1999. The evolution of the Ordovician southern Puna retro-arc basin (NW Argentina): provenance analysis and paleotectonic setting. 4th International Symposium of Andean Geodynamics, Göettingen (Germany), Abstracts, Institut de recherche pour le développement, Paris, 830-831.