Argentine Precordillera: Sedimentary and Plate Tectonic History of a Laurentian Crustal Fragment in South America (GSA Special Paper 341)

Argentine Precordillera: Sedimentary and Plate Tectonic History of a
Laurentian Crustal Fragment in South America......Page 1
Copyright page / ISBN 0-8137-2341-8......Page 2
Contents......Page 3
ABSTRACT......Page 6
INTRODUCTION......Page 8
Regional Setting of the Argentine Precordillera......Page 11
CARBONATE PLATFORM ROCKS OF THE ARGENTINE PRECORDILLERA......Page 19
ROCKS OVERLYING THE SAN JUAN FORMATION......Page 54
CONTINENTAL MARGIN SEDIMENTS AND ALLOCHTHONOUS CAMBRIAN AND ORDOVICIAN ROCKS......Page 61
ORDOVICIAN OF PONON TREHUE......Page 81
EARLY PALEOZOIC EVOLUTION AND PALEOGEOGRAPHY OF THE ARGENTINE PRECORDILLERA—GENERAL ASPECTS AND THE CARBONATE PLATFORM......Page 86
EARLY PALEOZOIC EVOLUTION AND PALEOGEOGRAPHY OF THE ARGENTINE PRECORDILLERA—THE MIDDLE ORDOVICIAN THROUGH DEVONIAN SILICICLASTIC SUCCESSIONS......Page 101
GEODYNAMIC EVOLUTION OF THE ARGENTINE PRECORDILLERA AND ITS PARENTAL TERRANE......Page 107
PLATE TECTONIC SCENARIO FOR THE EVOLUTION OF THE ARGENTINE PRECORDILLERA......Page 117
EPILOGUE......Page 120
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS......Page 121
APPENDIX 1......Page 122
REFERENCES CITED......Page 123
Back cover / Contents......Page 138
Blank Page......Page 137