Basement evolution of the Sierra de la Ventana Fold Belt: New evidence for Cambrian continental rifting along the southern margin of Gondwana

• Published in: Journal of the Geological Society
• Main Authors: Rapela, Carlos Washington, Pankhurst, R. J., Fanning, C. M., Grecco, Laura Edith
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Geological Society Publications House
• Subjects: Geochronology; Gondwana; Granites; Rifting; U-Pb Shrimp; https://purl.org/becyt/ford/1.5; https://purl.org/becyt/ford/1; Argentina; Edith; Ellsworth Mountains; Fanning; Antarc*; Antarctica; antartic*
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/11336/78126

U-Pb sensitive high-resolution ion microprobe data together with geochemical and Nd isotope analyses obtained in the basement complex of the Sierra de la Ventana Fold Belt indicate that the Early Palaeozoic passive margin history of the basin followed Cambrian magmatism related to rifting in a 600 M...