Patagonia: A paleozoic continent adrift?

• Published in: Journal of South American Earth Sciences
• Main Author: Ramos, Victor Alberto
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Pergamon-Elsevier Science Ltd
• Subjects: ALLOCHTHONOUS; ANDES; EXOTIC; PALEOZOIC; PARA-AUTOCHTHONOUS; TERRANES; https://purl.org/becyt/ford/1.5; https://purl.org/becyt/ford/1; Antarctic; The Antarctic; Antarctic Peninsula; Patagonia; Pablo; Ramos; Terra Australis; Antarc*
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/11336/92748

The evolution of Patagonia as an independent and exotic microcontinent from the rest of South America was a recurrent hypothesis since the XIX century, reaching notoriety during the discussion times of continental drift theory. The arrival of plate tectonics triggered different hypotheses, some of t...