Paleomagnetic evidence for a pre-early Eocene (∼ 50 Ma) bending of the Patagonian orocline (Tierra del Fuego, Argentina): Paleogeographic and tectonic implications

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 289, Issue 1-2, 2010, Pages 273-286

  Maffione, Marco ^a,d   Speranza, Fabio ^a   Faccenna, Claudio ^b   Rossello, Eduardo ^c  

^a ISTITUTO NAZIONALE DI GEOFISICA E VULCANOLOGIA   (Italy)

^b ROMA TRE UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

^c Facultad de Ciencias Naturales e Instituto M Lillo   (Argentina)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Drake Passage; Fuegian Andes; Magallanes belt; paleomagnetism; Patagonian orocline; tectonics

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPY OF MAGNETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; ANTARCTICA; ARGENTINA; DRAKE PASSAGE; EARLY MIOCENE; GLOBAL CLIMATES; IRON SULPHIDE; LOWER BOUNDS; MAGALLANES BELT; MAGNETIC LINEATIONS; MARINE CLAYS; OROCLINE; PALEOMAGNETIC EVIDENCE; PATAGONIA; RELATIVE MOTION; SAMPLING SITE; SOUTH AMERICA; STRIKE-SLIP FAULT; STRIKE-SLIP FAULT SYSTEMS; TECTONIC IMPLICATIONS;

CLAY MINERALS; CONTROL THEORY; GEOMAGNETISM; GLACIAL GEOLOGY; IRON ORES; MAGNETIC ANISOTROPY; MAGNETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; OXIDE MINERALS; ROTATION; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY;

TECTONICS;

BENDING; CRETACEOUS-TERTIARY BOUNDARY; DEFORMATION MECHANISM; DISPLACEMENT; EOCENE; FOLD AND THRUST BELT; IRON SULFIDE; MAGNETIC ANISOTROPY; MAGNETITE; OROGENY; PALEOGEOGRAPHY; PALEOMAGNETISM; PLATE MOTION; RELIABILITY ANALYSIS; SEAFLOOR SPREADING; STRIKE-SLIP FAULT; TECTONIC SETTING;

ARGENTINA; PATAGONIA; TIERRA DEL FUEGO [(PRV) ARGENTINA];

EID: 72949091841     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2009.11.015     Document Type: Article

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