Age and kinematics of ductile deformation in the Cerro Durazno area, NW Argentina: Significance for orogenic processes operating at the western margin of Gondwana during Ordovician - Silurian times

Journal of South American Earth Sciences

Volumn 26, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 78-90

  Wegmann, Maja I ^a   Riller, Ulrich ^b   Hongn, Fernando D ^c   Glodny, Johannes ^d   Oncken, Onno ^d  

^a FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^b MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE SALTA   (Argentina)

^d GFZ GERMAN RESEARCH CENTRE FOR GEOSCIENCES   (Germany)

Author keywords

Argentina; Ductile deformation; Gondwana; Metamorphism; Orogens; Paleozoic

Indexed keywords

DUCTILE DEFORMATION; GONDWANA; KINEMATICS; METAMORPHISM; ORDOVICIAN; OROGENY; PALEOZOIC; SHEAR ZONE; SILURIAN;

ARGENTINA; CERRO DURAZNO; SOUTH AMERICA;

EID: 48449103318     PISSN: 08959811     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jsames.2007.12.004     Document Type: Article

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