Reassessment of mid-Carboniferous glacial extent in southwestern Gondwana (Rio Blanco Basin, Argentina) inferred from paleo-mass transport of diamictites

• Published in: Gondwana Research
• Main Authors: Gulbranson, Erik L., Isbell, John L., Montañez, Isabel P., Limarino, Carlos Oscar, Marenssi, Sergio Alfredo, Meyer, Kyle, Hull, Clara
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Elsevier
• Subjects: Late Paleozoic ice age; Mass transport; Diamictite; Gondwana; Carboniferous; https://purl.org/becyt/ford/1.5; https://purl.org/becyt/ford/1; Argentino; Argentina; Blanco; Isbell; Dirección Nacional del Antártico; Instituto Antártico Argentino
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/11336/33592

Late Paleozoic glacial diamictites occur in many localities in western Argentina, indicating that the region was strongly affected by glaciation during the mid-Carboniferous (late Serpukhovian–early Bashkirian). In most instances these diamictites are found in steeply walled paleovalley settings in...