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