Tectonic and dynamic controls on the topography and subsidence of the Argentine Pampas: The role of the flat slab

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 295, Issue 1-2, 2010, Pages 187-194

  Dávila, Federico M ^a   Lithgow Bertelloni, Carolina ^b   Giménez, Mario ^c  

^a UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE CÓRDOBA   (Argentina)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE SAN JUAN   (Argentina)

Author keywords

Andean foreland; Argentina; Basin analysis; Dynamic topography; Flat subduction; Pampas Plain

Indexed keywords

ARGENTINA; BASIN ANALYSIS; BOUGUER ANOMALY; CENTRAL ANDES; DEPOCENTERS; DYNAMIC CONTROLS; DYNAMIC TOPOGRAPHY; FLAT SLABS; FLEXURAL ANALYSIS; MANTLE FLOW; MANTLE WEDGE; MIOCENE; QUATERNARY BASINS; REGIONAL MORPHOLOGY; VISCOSITY VARIATIONS;

SUBSIDENCE;

DYNAMIC ANALYSIS;

BASIN ANALYSIS; BOUGUER ANOMALY; FORELAND BASIN; GEODYNAMICS; MIOCENE; QUATERNARY; SLAB; SUBDUCTION; SUBSIDENCE; TOPOGRAPHY;

ARGENTINA; PAMPAS;

EID: 77953028193     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2010.03.039     Document Type: Article

References (46)

1. Allen P.A., Allen J.R. Basin Analysis, Principles and Applications 1990, Blackwell Scientific Publications.
2. Billen M.I., Gurnis M. A low viscosity wedge in subduction zones. Earth Planet. Sci. Lett. 2001, 193:227-236.
3. Booker J., Favetto A., Pomposiello C. Low electrical resistivity associated with plunging of the Nazca flat slab beneath Argentina. Nature 2004, 429:399-403.
4. Brooks B.A., Bevis M., Smalley R., Kendrick E., Manceda R., Lauría E., Maturana R., Araujo M. Crustal motion in the Southern Andes (26-36S): do the Andes behave like a microplate?. Geochem. Geophys. Geosyst. 2003, 4(10):1085. doi:10.1029/2003GC000505.
5. Brunetto, E., 2008. Actividad neotectónica en el sector oriental de la cuenca inferior del Río Dulce, Laguna de Mar Chiquita y Bloque de San Guillermo. Unpublished PhD thesis, Universidad Nacional de Córdoba, Argentina, 271 pp.
6. Cardozo N., Jordan T.E. Causes of spatially variable tectonic subsidence in the Miocene Bermejo foreland basin, Argentina. Basin Res. 2001, 13:335-357.
7. Cembrano J., Lavenu A., Yañez G., Riquelme R., Garcia M., Gonzalez G., Herail G. Neotectonics. The Geology of Chile 2006, 231-262. The Geological Society. W. Gibbons, T. Moreno (Eds.).
8. Chase C.G., Sussman A.J., Coblentz D.D. Curved Andes: geoid, forebulge, and flexure. LIthosphere 2009, 1(6):358-363.
9. Chebli G.A., Mozetic M.E., Rossello E.A., Buhler M. Cuencas sedimentarias de la Llanura Chacopampeana. Anales 1999, 29:627-644. Instituto de Geología y Recursos Minerales, Buenos Aires. R. Caminos (Ed.).
10. Collo G., Dávila F.M. Burial history and estimation of ancient thermal gradients in deep synorogenic foreland sequences: an approach in the Neogene Vinchina basin, south-Central Andes. 7th ISAG 2008, Nice, France 2008.
11. Dávila F.M., Astini R.A., Jordan T.E., Gehrels G., Ezpeleta M. Miocene forebulge development previous to the broken foreland partitioning in the southern Central Andes, west-central Argentina. Tectonics 2007, 26:TC5016. 10.1029/2007TC002118.
12. DeCelles P.G., Giles K.A. Foreland basin systems. Basin Res. 1996, 8:105-123.
13. Favetto A., Pomposiello C., Lopez de Luchi M.G., Booker J. 2D magnetotelluric interpretation of the crust electrical resistivity across the Pampean terrane-Rio de la Plata suture, in central Argentina. Tectonophysics 2008, 459:54-65.
14. Garcia-Castellanos D., Fernandez M., Torne M. Modeling the evolution of the Guadalquivir foreland basin (southern Spain). Tectonics 2002, 21. 10.1029/2001TC001339.
15. Gurnis M. Ridge spreading, subduction, and sea level fluctuations. Science 1990, 250:970-972.
16. Gutscher M.-A., Spakman W., Bijwaard H., Engdahl E.R. Geodynamics of flat subduction; seismicity and tomographic constrains from the Andean margin. Tectonics 2000, 19:814-833.
17. Hager B.H., O'Connell R.J. A simple model of plate dynamics and mantle convection. J. Geophys. Res. 1981, 86:4843-4867.
18. Hernández R., Jordan T., Dalentz Farjat A., Echavarría L., Idleman B., Reynolds J. Age, distribution, tectonics and eustatic controls of the Paranense and Caribbean marine transgressions in southern Bolivia and Argentina. J. S. Am. Earth Sci. 2005, 19:495-512.
19. Hinze W. Bouguer reduction density, why 2.67. Geophysics 2003, 68:1559-1560.
20. Hinze W., et al. New standards for reducing gravity data: the North American gravity database. Geophysiscs 2005, 70:J25-J32.
21. Horton B.K., DeCelles P.G. The modern foreland basin system adjacent to the Central Andes. Geology 1997, 25:895-898.
22. Jordan T.E., Allmendinger R.W. The Sierras Pampeanas of Argentina: a modern analogue of Rocky Mountain foreland deformation. Am. J. Sci. 1986, 286:737-764.
23. Jordan T.E., Zeitler P., Ramos V.A., Gleadow A.J.W. Thermocronometric data on the development of the basement peneplain in the Sierras Pampeanas, Argentina. J. S. Am. Earth Sci. 1989, 2:207-222.
24. Jordan T.E., Allmendinger R.W., Damanti J.F., Drake R.E. Chronology of motion in a complete thrust belt: the Precordillera, 30-31°S, Andes Mountains. J. Geol. 1993, 101:135-156.
25. Kane M.F. A comprehensive system of terrain corrections using a digital computer. Geophysics 1962, 27:455-462.
26. Kay S.M., Gordillo C.E. Pocho volcanic rocks and the melting of depleted continental lithosphere above a shallowly dipping subduction zone in the central Andes. Contrib. Mineralog. Petrol. 1994, 117:25-44.
27. Kay S.M., Mpodozis C. Magmatism as a probe to the Neogene shallowing of the Nazca plate beneath the modern Chilean flat-slab. J. S. Am. Earth Sci. 2002, 15:39-57.
28. Lithgow-Bertelloni C., Richards M.A. The dynamic of Mesozoic and Cenozoic plate motion. Rev. Geophys. 1998, 36:27-78.
29. Liu S., Nummedal D. Late Cretaceous subsidence in Wyoming: quantifying the dynamic component. Geology 2004, 32:397-400.
30. Liu L., Spasojevic S., Gurnis M. Reconstructing Farallon Plate Subduction beneath North America back to the Late Cretaceous. Science 2008, 322:934-938.
31. Marengo, H.G., 2006. Micropaleontología y estratigrafía del Mioceno marino de la Argentina: Las Transgresiones de Laguna Paiva y del "Entrerriense-Paranense", Tomo 1. Unpublished PhD Thesis, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina, 124 pp.
32. Mitrovica J.X., Beaumont C., Jarvis G.T. Tilting of the continental interior by the dynamical effects of subduction. Tectonics 1989, 8:1079-1094.
33. Müller R.D., Sdrolias M., Gaina C., Roest W.R. Age, spreading rates, and spreading asymmetry of the world's ocean crust. Geochem. Geophys. Geosyst. 2008, 9:Q04006. 10.1029/2007GC001743.
34. Nagy D. The gravitational attraction of a right rectangular prism. Geophysics 1966, 31:362-371.
35. Pardo M., Comte D., Monfret T. Seismotectonic and stress distribution in the central Chile subduction zone. J. South Am. Earth Sci. 2002, 15:11-22.
36. Pelletier J.D. Erosion-rate determination from foreland basin geometry. Geology 2007, 35:5-8.
37. Pérez-Gussinyé M., Lowry A.R., Watts A.B. Effective elastic thickness of South America and its implications for intracontinental deformation. Geochem. Geophys. Geosys. 2007, 8(5):1-22. 10.1029/2006GC001511.
38. Pysklywec R.N., Mitrovica J.X. The role of subduction-induced subsidence in the evolution of the Karoo Basin. J. Geol. 1999, 107:155-164.
39. Ramos V.A. The basement of the Central Andes: the Arequipa and related terranes. Ann. Rev. Earth Planet. Sci. 2008, 36:289-324.
40. Ricard Y., Richards M., Lithgow-Bertelloni C., LeStunff Y. A geodynamical model of mantle density heterogeneity. J. Geophys. Res. 1993, 98:21895-21909.
41. Ricard Y., Chambat F., Lithgow-Bertelloni C. Gravity observations and 3D structure of the Earth. C. R. Geosci. 2006, 338:992-1001. (Comptes Rendus de l'Acad (c)mie des Sciences).
42. Tassara A. Interaction between the Nazca and South American plates and formation of the Altiplano-Puna plateau: review of a flexural analysis along the Andean margin (15°-34°S). Tectonophysics 2005, 399:39-57.
43. Tassara A., Swain C., Hackney R., Kirby J. Elastic thickness structure of South America estimated using wavelets and satellite-derived gravity data. Earth Planet. Sci. Lett. 2007, 253:17-36.
44. Turcotte, D.L., Schubert, G., 2002. Geodynamics, 2nd ed. Cambridge University Press.
45. Ussami N., Shiraiwa S., Landim Dominguez J.M. Basement reactivation in a Plio-Pleistocene Sub-Andean foreland flexural bulge: the Pantanal Wetland, SW Brazil. Tectonics 1999, 18:25-39.
46. Webster R., Chebli G.A., Fischer J.F. General Levalle Basin, Argentina; a frontier Lower Cretaceous rift basin. AAPG Bull. 2004, 88(5):627-652.