Early uplift and orogenic deformation in the Neuquén Basin: Constraints on the Andean uplift from U-Pb and Hf isotopic data of detrital zircons

Tectonophysics

Volumn 489, Issue 1-4, 2010, Pages 258-273

  Tunik, Maisa ^a,b   Folguera, Andrés ^a   Naipauer, Maximiliano ^a   Pimentel, Marcio ^c   Ramos, Victor A ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD DE BUENOS AIRES   (Argentina)

^b UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DEL COMAHUE   (Argentina)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BRASILIA   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Andes; Foreland basin; Juvenile rocks; Retroarc basin; Uplift

Indexed keywords

ANDES; ANGULAR UNCONFORMITY; ARGENTINA; CAMBRIANS; CENOMANIAN; CENTRAL ANDES; CONTINENTAL CRUSTS; DETRITAL ZIRCON; EARLY CRETACEOUS; FISSION TRACK; FORELAND BASIN; ISLAND ARC; ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; ISOTOPIC DATA; ISOTOPIC VALUES; LATE CRETACEOUS; LOWER CRETACEOUS; MAGMATIC ARCS; NEGATIVE VALUES; NEOPROTEROZOIC; ORDOVICIAN; PALEOPROTEROZOIC; PERMIAN; PLUTONS; TRIASSIC; UPPER CRETACEOUS;

BUILDINGS; DEFORMATION; DEPOSITS; GEOCHRONOLOGY; HAFNIUM; ISOTOPES; LEAD; SILICATE MINERALS; TIME MEASUREMENT; ZIRCON;

STRATIGRAPHY;

CONTINENTAL CRUST; CRETACEOUS; DEFORMATION; EXHUMATION; FISSION TRACK DATING; FORELAND BASIN; GRENVILLIAN OROGENY; HAFNIUM; ISLAND ARC; ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; OROGENY; UNCONFORMITY; UPLIFT; URANIUM-LEAD DATING; ZIRCON;

ANDES; ARGENTINA; NEUQUEN; NEUQUEN BASIN;

EID: 77953706928     PISSN: 00401951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tecto.2010.04.017     Document Type: Article

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