Pie de Palo, Argentina: A cataclastic diapir

Geomorphology

Volumn 104, Issue 3-4, 2009, Pages 317-322

  Vita Finzi, Claudio ^a  

^a DEPARTMENT OF LIFE SCIENCES   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cataclastic diapirism; Neotectonics; Pie de Palo; Sierras Pampeanas

Indexed keywords

COSEISMIC PROCESS; CRUSTAL SHORTENING; DEFORMATION; DIAPIRISM; GEOMORPHOLOGY; NEOTECTONICS; PALEOZOIC; SUBDUCTION; UPLIFT;

ARGENTINA; SIERRAS PAMPEANAS; SOUTH AMERICA;

EID: 58249100123     PISSN: 0169555X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.geomorph.2008.09.006     Document Type: Article

References (51)

1. Alvarado P., Castro de Machuca A.B., and Beck S. Comparative seismic and petrographic crustal study between the Western and Eastern Sierras Pampeanas region (31°S). Revista de la Asociación Geológica Argentina 60 (2005) 787-796
2. Alvarado P., Beck S., Zandt G., Araujo M., and Triep E. Crustal deformation in the south-central Andes backarck terranes as viewed from regional broadband seismic waveform modelling. Geophysical Journal International 163 (2005) 580-589
3. Barazangi M., and Isacks B.L. Spatial distribution of earthquakes and subduction of the Nazca plate beneath South America. Geology 4 (1976) 686-692
4. Barton D.C. The American salt-dome problems in the light of the Roumanian and German salt domes. In: Moore R.C., Pratt W.E., Barton D.C., Deussen A., and Hull J.P.D. (Eds). Geology of Salt Dome Oil Fields, American Association of Petroleum Geologists Special Publication 1, Tulsa, OK (1926) 167-208
5. Bollinger G.A., and Langer C.J. Development of a velocity model for locating aftershocks in the Sierrra Pie de Palo region of western Argentina. Bulletin of the U. S. Geological Survey, No. 1795, Denver, CO, 16 pp (1988)
6. Brooks B.A., Bevis M., Smalley R., Kendrick E., Manceda R., Lauría E., Maturana R., and Araujo M. Crustal motion in the Southern Andes (26°-36°S): do the Andes behave like a microplate?. Geochemistry Geophysics Geosystems 4 (2003) 1-14 10.1029/2003GC000505
7. Costa C.H., and Vita-Finzi C. Late Holocene faulting in the southeast Sierras Pampeanas of Argentina. Geology 24 (1996) 1127-1130
8. Costa C.H., Gardini C.E., Diederix H., and Cortés J.M. The Andean orogenic front at Sierra de Las Peñas-Las Higueras, Mendoza, Argentina. Journal of South American Earth Science 13 (2000) 287-292
9. Costa, C.H., Gardini, C.E., Diederix, H., Cisneros, H.A., Ahumada, E.A., 2006. The active Andean orogenic front at the southernmost Pampean flat-slab. Conference on Backbone of the Americas-Patagonia to Alaska, 3-7 April 2006. Geological Society of America and Asociación Geológica Argentina, Mendoza, Argentina, Paper No. 15-1.
10. Courtillot V., Davaille A., Besse J., and Stock J. Three distinct types of hotspots in the Earth's mantle. Earth and Planetary Science Letters 205 (2003) 295-308
11. Davison I., Alsop I., Birch P., Elders C., Evans N., Nicholson H., Rorison P., Wade D., Woodward J., and Young M. Geometry and late-stage structural evolution of Central Graben salt diapirs, North Sea. Marine and Petroleum Geology 17 (2000) 499-522
12. DeMets C., Gordon D.F., Argus D.F., and Stein S. Effect of recent revisions of the geomagnetic reversal time scale on estimates of current plate motions. Geophysical Research Letters 21 (1994) 2191-2194
13. Gerya T.V., Uken R., Reinhardt J., Watkeys M.K., Maresch W., and Clarke B.M. Cold diapirs triggered by intrusion of the Bushveld Complex. Insight from two-dimensional numerical modelling. In: Whitney D.L., Teyssier C., and Siddoway C.S. (Eds). Gneiss Domes in Orogeny. Geological Society of America Special Paper 380 (1995) 117-128
14. Goudie A.S. Salt tectonics and geomorphology. Progress in Physical Geography 13 (1989) 597-605
15. Goudie A.S. Diapir. In: Goudie A.S. (Ed). Encyclopedia of Geomorphology vol. 1 (2004), Routledge, London 259
16. Hamilton W.B. Plumeless Venus preserves an ancient impact-accretionary surface. In: Foulger G.R., Natland J.H., Presnall D.C., and Anderson D.L. (Eds). Plates, Plumes, and Paradigms. Geological Society of America, Special Paper 388 (2005) 781-814 10.1130/2005.2388 (44)
17. Hudec M.R., and Jackson M.P.A. Terra infirma: understanding salt tectonics. Earth Science Reviews 82 (2007) 1-28
18. Introcaso A. Recent crustal movements and gravity in Argentina: a review. In: Kasahara K. (Ed). Recent Plate Movements and Deformation. Geodynamics Series 20 (1987), American Geophysical Union, Washington 73-79
19. Introcaso A., Pacino M.C., and Fraga H. Gravity, isostasy and Andean crustal shortening between latitudes 30 and 35°S. Tectonophysics 205 (1992) 31-48
20. Kadinski-Cade K., Reilinger R., and Isacks B. Surface deformation associated with the November 23, 1977, Caucete, Argentina, earthquake sequence. Journal of Geophysical Research 90 (1985) 12691-12700
21. Kalpakjian S., and Schmid S.R. Manufacturing Processes for Engineering Materials. 4th ed. (2002), Prentice Hall, Upper Saddle River, NJ
22. Klosko E.R., Stein S., Hindle D., Norabuena E., Dixon T., and Liu M. Comparison of GPS, seismological and geological observations of Andean mountain building. In: Stein S., and Freymuller T. (Eds). Plate Boundary Zones. Geodynamics Series 30 (2002), AGU, Washington 123-133
23. Koyi H. Experimental modeling of role of gravity and lateral shortening in Zagros mountain belt. Bulletin of the American Association of Petroleum Geologists 72 (1988) 1381-1394
24. Koyi H. The shaping of salt diapirs. Journal of Structural Geology 20 (1998) 321-338
25. Langer C.J., and Bollinger G.A. Aftershocks of the western Argentina (Caucete) earthquake of 23 November 1977: some tectonic implications. Tectonophysics 148 (1988) 131-146
26. Lin A. Fluidization and rapid injection of crushed fine-grained materials in fault zones during episodes of seismic faulting. Proceedings of the 30th International Geological Congress, Beijing, China, 14 (1997) 27-40
27. Louchet F., Weiss J., and Richeton T. Hall-Petch law revisited in terms of collective dislocation dynamics. Physical Review Letters 97 (2006) 075504 10.1103/PhysRevLett.97.075504
28. Melson W.G., Hart S.R., and Thompson G. St Paul's Rocks, Equatorial Atlantic: petrogenesis, radiometric ages, and implications on sea-floor spreading. Geological Society of America, Memoir 132 (1972) 241-270
29. Meredith P.G. Fracture and failure of brittle polycrystals: an overview. In: Barber D.J., and Meredith P.G. (Eds). Deformation Processes in Minerals, Ceramics and Rocks (1990), Unwin Hyman, London 5-47
30. Mulcahy, S.R., Roeske, S.M., McClelland, W.C., Ellis, J.R., Nomade, S., Vujovich, G.I., 2005. The role of pre-existing anisotropies and partial melt in controlling strain localization in a Paleozoic lower crustal suture zone, Sierras Pampeanas, West-Central Argentina. Abstracts, Joint Meeting, American Association of Petroleum Geologists and Geological Society of America, San José, CA, Paper 223-7.
31. Murrell S.A.F. Brittle-to-ductile transitions in polycrystalline non-metallic materials. In: Barber D.J., and Meredith P.G. (Eds). Deformation Processes in Minerals, Ceramics and Rocks (1990), Unwin Hyman, London 109-137
32. Norabuena E., Leffler-Griffin L., Mao A., Dixon T., Stein S., Selwyn Sacks I., Ocola L., and Ellis M. Space geodetic observations of Nazca-South America convergence across the central Andes. Science 279 (1998) 358-362
33. Perrot A., Lanos C., Estellé P., and Melinge Y. Ram extrusion force for a frictional plastic material: model prediction and application to cement paste. Rheologica Acta 45 (2006) 457-467
34. Pinotti L.P., Coniglio J.E., Esparza A.M., D'Eramo F.J., and Llambias E.J. Nearly circular plutons emplaced by stoping at shallow crustal levels, Cerro Aspero batholith, Sierras Pampeanas de Córdoba, Argentina. Journal of South American Earth Sciences 15 (2002) 251-265
35. Price N.J., and Cosgrove J.W. Analysis of Geological Structures (1990), Cambridge University Press, Cambridge
36. Ramos V.A., and Vujovich G.I. Mapa Geológico de la Provincia de San Juan, 1/500,000 (1995), Ministerio de Economía y Obras y Servicios Públicos, Buenos Aires
37. Ramos V.A., and Vujovich G.I. Hoja Geológica 3169-IV, San Juan, Provincia de San Juan. Boletín 243 (1999), Servicio Geológico y Minero Argentino, Buenos Aires 82 pp
38. Ramos V.A., Cristallini E.O., and Pérez D.J. The Pampean flat-slab of the Central Andes. Journal of South American Earth Sciences 15 (2002) 59-78
39. Ramsay J.G. Folding and Fracturing of Rocks (1967), McGraw-Hill, London
40. Régnier M., Chatelain J.L., Smalley R., Chiu J.-M., Isacks B., and Araujo M. Seismotectonics of Sierra Pie de Palo, a basement block uplift in the Andean foreland of Argentina. Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America 82 (1992) 2549-2571
41. Siame L.L., Bellier O., Sébrier M., and Araujo M. Deformation partitioning in flat subduction setting: the case of the Andean foreland of western Argentina (28°S-33°S). Tectonics (2005) 1-24 10.1029/2005TC001787
42. Siame L.L., Bellier O., and Sébrier M. Active tectonics in the Argentine Precordillera and Western Sierras Pampeanas. Revista de la Asociación Geológica Argentina 61 (2006) 604-619
43. Silver P.G., Russo R.M., and Lithgow-Bertelloni C. Coupling of South American and African Plate motion and plate deformation. Science 279 (1998) 60-63
44. Smalley R., Pujol J., Régnier M., Chiu J.-M., Chatelain J.-L., Isacks B.L., Araujo M., and Puebla N. Basement seismicity beneath the Andean Precordillera thin-skinned thrust belt and implications for crustal and lithospheric behavior. Tectonics 12 (1993) 63-76
45. Talbot C.J., Koyi H., Sokoutis D., Mulugeta G., and Schwerdtner W.M. Identification of evaporite diapirs formed under the influence of horizontal compression; discussion and reply. Bulletin of Canadian Petroleum Geology 36 (1988) 91-95
46. Turcotte D.L., and Schubert G. Geodynamics. 2nd ed. (2002), Cambridge University Press, Cambridge
47. van Staal C.B., Vujovich G.I., and Davis B. Tectonostratigraphic relationships and structural evolution of the western margin of the Sierra de Pie de Palo, Cuyania (Precordillera) terrane, Argentina. Annual Meeting, Geological Society of America, Paper (2002) 223-227
48. Vendeville B.C., and Nilsen K.T. Episodic growth of salt diapirs driven by horizontal shortening. In: Travis C.J., Veneville B.C., Harrison H., Peel F.J., Hudec M.R., and Perkins B.F. (Eds). Salt, Sediment, and Hydrocarbons. GCSSEPM 16th Annual Research Conference, Houston, TX (1995) 285-295
49. Vita-Finzi C., Howarth R.J., Tapper S.W., and Robinson C.A. Venusian craters, size distribution, and the origin of coronae. In: Foulger G.R., Natland J.H., Presnall D.C., and Anderson D.L. (Eds). Plates, Plumes, and Paradigms. Geological Society of America, Special Paper vol. 388 (2005) 815-823 10.1130/2005.2388 (45)
50. Volponi F., Quiroga M., Robles A., and Sisterna J. El terremoto de Caucete del 23 de Noviembre de 1977 (1984), Instituto Geológico Zonda, San Juan
51. Wibberley C.A.J. Three-dimensional geometry, strain rates and basement deformation mechanisms of thrust-bend folding. Journal of Structural Geology 19 (1997) 535-550