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, Juán A., Verdecchia, Sebastián O., Baldo, Edgardo G., Galindo, Carmen, Rapela, Carlos W., Pankhurst, Robert J., Morales, Matias M., Murra, Juán A., Mark Fanning, C.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Elsevier 2018
• Subjects: Argentina; Corral; Mara; Antarc*; Antarctica
• Online Access: http://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/519564/; https://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/519564/1/Revised%20manuscript.pdf; https://doi.org/10.1016/j.earscirev.2017.11.013

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...