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, César, Dahlquist, J., Verdecchia, Sebastián O., Baldo, Edgardo G., Galindo, Carmen, Rapela, Carlos W., Pankhurst, Robert J., Morales Cámera, Matías M., Murra, J. A., Fanning, M.
• Other Authors: Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas (Argentina), Fondo para la Investigación Científica y Tecnológica (Argentina), Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad (España), Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Banco Santander
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Elsevier 2018
• Subjects: Pampean orogeny; Saldanian orogeny; Sierras Pampeanas; Gondwana; Mara terrane; Collisional orogeny; Argentina; Argentine; Corral; Mara; Antarc*; Antarctica
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10261/185930; https://doi.org/10.1016/j.earscirev.2017.11.013; https://doi.org/10.13039/501100002923; https://doi.org/10.13039/501100002911; https://doi.org/10.13039/501100006668; https://doi.org/10.13039/501100003329; https://doi.org/10.13039/100010784

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...