Fast sediment underplating and essentially coeval juvenile magmatism in the Ordovician margin of Gondwana, Western Sierras Pampeanas, Argentina

Gondwana Research

Volumn 22, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 664-673

  Casquet, César ^a   Rapela, Carlos W ^b   Pankhurst, Robert J ^c   Baldo, Edgardo ^d   Galindo, Carmen ^a   Fanning, Cristopher M ^e   Dahlquist, Juán ^d  

^a INSTITUTO DE GEOCIENCIAS   (Spain)

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

^c BRITISH GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United Kingdom)

^d CICTERRA   (Argentina)

^e AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Famatinian magmatic arc; Gondwana; Juvenile magmatism; Sierras Pampeanas; U Pb SHRIMP zircon geochronology

Indexed keywords

AMPHIBOLITE FACIES; GNEISS; GONDWANA; JUVENILE; MAGMA; MAGMATISM; METAMORPHISM; ORDOVICIAN; PROTOLITH; SHRIMP DATING; URANIUM-LEAD DATING;

ARGENTINA;

EID: 84863876318     PISSN: 1342937X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gr.2012.05.001     Document Type: Article

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