A history of Proterozoic terranes in southern South America: From Rodinia to Gondwana

Geoscience Frontiers

Volumn 3, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 137-145

  Casquet, C ^a   Rapela, C W ^b   Pankhurst, R J ^c   Baldo, E G ^d   Galindo, C ^a   Fanning, C M ^e   Dahlquist, J A ^d   Saavedra, J ^f  

^a INSTITUTO DE GEOCIENCIAS   (Spain)

^b National University of La Plata Centro de Investigaciones Geologicas   (Argentina)

^c BRITISH GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE CÓRDOBA   (Argentina)

^e AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^f INSTITUTO DE RECURSOS NATURALES Y AGROBIOLOGÍA DE SALAMANCA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Cratons; Grenvillian; Neoproterozoic rifting; Paleoproterozoic; SW Gondwana assembly

Indexed keywords

CAMBRIAN; CRATON; GEODYNAMICS; GONDWANA; METAMORPHIC ROCK; PALEOGEOGRAPHY; PROTEROZOIC; RIFTING; RODINIA; SHRIMP DATING; TERRANE; URANIUM-LEAD DATING;

AREQUIPA [PERU]; ARGENTINA; PERU; RIO DE LA PLATA;

EID: 84857624833     PISSN: 16749871     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gsf.2011.11.004     Document Type: Review

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