Mid- to Late Cambrian docking of the Río de la Plata craton to southwestern Gondwana: Age constraints from U-Pb SHRIMP detrital zircon ages from Sierras de Ambato and Velasco (Sierras Pampeanas, Argentina)

Journal of the Geological Society

Volumn 168, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 1061-1071

  Verdecchia, Sebastián O ^a   Casquet, Cesar ^b   Baldo, Edgardo G ^a   Pankhurst, Robert J ^c   Rapela, Carlos W ^d   Fanning, Mark ^e   Galindo, Carmen ^b  

^a UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE CÓRDOBA   (Argentina)

^b Facultad de Ciencias Geológicas   (Spain)

^c BRITISH GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United Kingdom)

^d Centro de Investigaciones Geológicas   (United Kingdom)

^e AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGE CONSTRAINTS; ARGENTINA; CAMBRIANS; DETRITAL ZIRCON; ORDOVICIAN; PALAEOZOIC; PROTOLITHS; RELATIVE POSITIONS; SENSITIVE HIGH-RESOLUTION ION MICROPROBE; TECTONIC HISTORY; TECTONO-THERMAL EVENT; U-PB SHRIMP;

STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY; ZIRCON;

STRATIGRAPHY;

BRASILIANO OROGENY; CAMBRIAN; CRATON; DEFORMATION; DETRITAL DEPOSIT; GONDWANA; METAMORPHISM; METASEDIMENTARY ROCK; ORDOVICIAN; PROTOLITH; SHRIMP DATING; STRATIGRAPHY; URANIUM-LEAD DATING; ZIRCON;

AMBATO; ARGENTINA; CATAMARCA; LA RIOJA [ARGENTINA]; RIO DE LA PLATA; SIERRA DE FAMATINA; SIERRAS PAMPEANAS;

EID: 79959499320     PISSN: 00167649     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1144/0016-76492010-143     Document Type: Article

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