Early Cretaceous felsic volcanism in SE Uruguay

• Main Authors: LUSTRINO, Michele, M. Marrazzo, L. Melluso, C. G. C. Tassinari, P. Brotzu, C. B. Gomes, L. Morbidelli, E. Ruberti
• Other Authors: Lustrino, Michele, M., Marrazzo, L., Melluso, C. G. C., Tassinari, P., Brotzu, C. B., Gome, L., Morbidelli, E., Ruberti
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: -Nagoya : Geochemical Society of Japan, Department of Earth Sciences, Nagoya University. -Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo,Japan: Business Center for Academic Societies Japan 2010
• Subjects: rhyolite; paraná–etendeka; uruguay; lower crust; crustal contamination; Uruguay; Perez; Lucía; South Atlantic Ocean
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/11573/39328

Early Cretaceous (~129 Ma) silicic rocks crop out in SE Uruguay between the Laguna Merín and Santa Lucía basins in the Lascano, Sierra São Miguel, Salamanca and Minas areas. They are mostly rhyolites with minor quartz-trachytes and are nearly contemporaneous with the Paraná–Etendeka igneous province...