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Abstract The Andean Plateau of north‐western Argentina (Puna) at a mean elevation of ca. 4.2 km constitutes the southern continuation of the Altiplano; it is a compressional basin‐and‐range province comprising fault‐bounded, high‐elevation mountain ranges and largely internally drained basins with often thick sedimentary and volcaniclastic fill ...
Heiko Pingel +7 more
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La Formación Chango Real (sierras de Culampajá y Papachacra) es parte del magmatismo paleozoico de las Sierras Pampeanas noroccidentales (NW de la Argentina).
J. E. Lazarte
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Tectonic overview of the West Gondwana margin [PDF]
The oceanic southern margin of Gondwana, from southern South America through South Africa, West Antarctica, New Zealand (in its pre break-up position), and Victoria Land to Eastern Australia is one of the longest and longest-lived active continental ...
Pankhurst, Robert J., Vaughan, Alan P.M.
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Abstract Within the Central Andes of NW Argentina, the spatiotemporal distribution and style of deformation is strongly influenced by pre‐Cenozoic heterogeneities, mostly related to the Salta rift extension in the Cretaceous. At the enigmatic junction of the thin‐skinned Subandean belt and the thick‐skinned Santa Barbara System, the Tilcara Range and ...
Willemijn S. M. T. van Kooten +4 more
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Las sierras de Velasco, Copacabana y Paimán, en el ambiente de Sierras Pampeanas, están constituidas principalmente por cuerpos plutónicos del Paleozoico inferior, relacionados con el ciclo Famatiniano (Granitos Huaco, Antinaco y Paimán) y por rocas ...
J. P. López +3 more
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The aim of this paper is to present a detailed geomorphological map of the western piedmont of Cumbres Calchaquíes (Tucumán Province, NW Argentina) bounded by the Amaicha River to the south and the administrative border with Salta Province to the north ...
María Marta Sampietro-Vattuone +1 more
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One kilometre-thick ultramylonite, Sierra de Quilmes, Sierras Pampeanas, NW Argentina
Abstract We describe a 1 km-thick ultramylonite forming the high strain base of the >3.5 km-thick El Pichao shear zone in the Sierra de Quilmes. This shear zone thrusted granulite facies migmatites onto amphibolite facies rocks during the 470 Ma Famatinian orogeny.
M.A. Finch +4 more
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The genus Bostryx Troschel, 1847 is endemic to South America, extending from Ecuador to Chile and Argentina. The southernmost Argentinian species of the genus that inhabit San Luis, San Juan and Mendoza provinces, specially the pre-Andes, Andes and ...
María José Miranda
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El objetivo general de este trabajo es el de contribuir con nueva información arqueológica que aporte a un modelo paleoecológico general para las Sierras Pampeanas Australes desde un caso de estudio: el valle de Ongamira, donde han sido planteados ...
Andrés D. Izeta +3 more
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Neoproterozoic A-type magmatism in the Western Sierras Pampeanas (Argentina): evidence for Rodinia break-up along a proto-Iapetus rift? [PDF]
A-type orthogneisses of mid Neoproterozoic age (774 ± 6 Ma, U-Pb SHRIMP zircon age), are reported for the first time from the Grenvillian basement of the Western Sierras Pampeanas in Argentina. These anorogenic meta-igneous rocks represent the latest
Baldo, Edgardo G. +7 more
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