Ordovician metamorphic event in the carbonate platform of the Argentine Precordillera: Implications for the geotectonic evolution of the proto-Andean margin of Gondwana

Geology

Volumn 37, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 311-314

  Voldman, Gustavo G ^a   Albanesi, Guillermo L ^a   Ramos, Victor A ^b  

^a UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE CÓRDOBA   (Argentina)

^b UNIVERSIDAD DE BUENOS AIRES   (Argentina)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BASEMENT ROCKS; CARBONATE PLATFORMS; DATA SUPPORT; DEFORMATION FRONT; DEVONIANS; GEOTECTONIC EVOLUTION; LEADING EDGE; MATRIX; METAMORPHIC AGE; METAMORPHIC EVENTS; ORDOVICIAN; ORDOVICIAN PERIOD; SEDIMENTARY SEQUENCE; TIME CONSTRAINTS;

CARBONATION; STRATIGRAPHY;

STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY;

ALLOCHTHON; AUTOCHTHON; CARBONATE PLATFORM; CONODONT; DEFORMATION; FORELAND BASIN; GONDWANA; METAMORPHISM; ORDOVICIAN; TECTONIC EVOLUTION;

PRECORDILLERA; SOUTH AMERICA;

LENODUS VARIABILIS; PALTODUS DELTIFER;

EID: 69649095301     PISSN: 00917613     EISSN: 00917613     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/G25540A.1     Document Type: Article

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