The Rio de la Plata craton and the assembly of SW Gondwana

Date

2007

Authors

Rapela, Carlos W
Pankhurst, Robert J
Casquet, Cesar
Fanning, Christopher
Baldo, Edgardo
Gonzalez-Casado, Jose M
Galindo, Carmen
Dahlquist, Juan A.

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Elsevier

Abstract

The extent and nature of the Archaean-Palaeoproterozoic craton of Río de la Plata of southern South America, a major but poorly understood crustal component in Neoproterozoic plate reconstructions, as well as the depositional, metamorphic and magmatic hi

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Keywords: Archean; basement rock; borehole; Brasiliano orogeny; continental margin; craton; crustal structure; Gondwana; Proterozoic; SHRIMP dating; strike-slip fault; tectonic reconstruction; uranium-lead dating; Argentina; Atlantic Coast [South America]; Rio de l Brasiliano orogeny; Cambrian; Gondwana assembly; Neoproterozoic; Palaeoproterozoic; Pampean orogeny; Río de la Plata craton; U-Pb zircon dating

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Earth-Science Reviews

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