Episodic remagnetizations related to tectonic events and their consequences for the South America polar wander path

• Published in: Geological Society, London, Special Publications
• Main Authors: Font, E., Rapalini, Augusto Ernesto, Tomezzoli, Renata Nela, Trindade, R. I. F., Tovher, E.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Geological Society Publications House
• Subjects: Paleogeografía; Paleozoico; Gondwana; Paleomagnetismo; https://purl.org/becyt/ford/1.5; https://purl.org/becyt/ford/1; Argentina; Uruguay; Augusto; Nela; South Atlantic Ocean
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/11336/68225

The South American record of remagnetizations is linked to specific events of its tectonic history stretching back to Precambrian times. At the Ediacaran-Cambrian time interval (570-500 Ma), the final stages of the western Gondwana assemblage led to remagnetization of Neoproterozoic carbonates withi...