Cambrian to Devonian geologic evolution of the Sierra de Comechingones, Eastern Sierras Pampeanas, Argentina: Evidence for the development and exhumation of continental crust on the proto-Pacific margin of Gondwana

Gondwana Research

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 1143-1155

  Otamendi, J E ^a   Castellarini, P A ^a   Fagiano, M R ^a   Demichelis, A H ^a   Tibladi, A M ^a  

^a DEPARTAMENTO DE QUÍMICA   (Argentina)

Author keywords

Famatinian orogeny; Gondwana margin; Palaeozoic; Pampean orogeny; Sierras Pampeanas

Indexed keywords

CAMBRIAN; CONTINENTAL CRUST; CRYSTALLINE ROCK; DEVONIAN; EXHUMATION; GONDWANA; MAGMA; OROGENY; PLATE BOUNDARY; PLATE CONVERGENCE; TECTONIC EVOLUTION;

ARGENTINA; SIERRAS PAMPEANAS;

EID: 5444244858     PISSN: 1342937X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1342-937X(05)71090-X     Document Type: Article

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