Review of the Cambrian Pampean orogeny of Argentina; a displaced orogen formerly attached to the Saldania Belt of South Africa?

• Published in: Earth-Science Reviews
• Main Authors: Casquet, Cesar, Dahlquist, Juan A., Verdecchia, Sebastian O., Baldo, Edgardo, Galindo, Carmen, Rapela, Carlos W., Pankhurst, Robert J., Morales, Matias M., Murra, Juan A., Fanning, C. Mark
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: Elsevier
• Subjects: Pampean orogeny; Saldanian orogeny; Sierras Pampeanas; Gondwana; Mara terrane; Collisional orogeny; Argentina; Argentine; Corral; Mara; Antarc*; Antarctica
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/1885/139079; https://doi.org/10.1016/j.earscirev.2017.11.013; https://openresearch-repository.anu.edu.au/bitstream/1885/139079/4/1-s2.0-S0012825217302878-main.pdf.jpg

The Pampean orogeny of northern Argentina resulted from Early Cambrian oblique collision of the Paleoproterozoic-Mesoproterozoic MARA block, formerly attached to Laurentia, with the Gondwanan Kalahari and Rio de la Plata cratons. The orogen is partially preserved because it is bounded by the younger...