The structure of the eastern border of the Andes in north-western Argentina     

Dr. Ricardo Mon 《International Journal of Earth Sciences》1976,65(1):211-222

In the eastern border area of the Andes of north-western Argentina two structural units are represented: the Cordillera Oriental and the Sierras Subandinas.The Cordillera Oriental represents a structural unit of faulted blocks strongly uplifted in relation to the Sierras Subandinas. In the Cordillera Oriental, the metamorphic basement has been partially folded together with the sedimentary cover. In some cases the cover has been detached away from its substratum and folded independently of it.It was generally accepted that the Sierras Subandinas coincide with big asymmetrical anticlines produced in the cover rocks by tilting of rigid basement blocks. The detailed geological mapping of the region situated between the parallels 24° 45 and 26° latitude south and the meridians 64° 30 and 66° west has provided data that permit to modify considerably this scheme.The existence of important strike-slip faults running highly oblique to the main regional structural pattern and controlling the shape of the Sierras Subandinas folds has been verified. These highly oblique faults with strike-slip movements, that affect the whole region, are probably ancient lineaments reactivated during Andean diastrophism in Upper Pliocene to Early Pleistocene time.

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Zusammenfassung Im östlichen Grenzgebiet der Anden im nordwestlichen Argentinien liegen zwei strukturell unterschiedliche Einheiten vor, die Cordillera Oriental und die subandinen Sierren (Sierras Subandinas).Die Cordillera Oriental besteht aus Leistenschollen eines leicht metamorphisierten Sockels. Sie ist als Ganzes im Verhältnis zu den subandinen Sierren stark herausgehoben worden. In der Cordillera Oriental wurde dieser Sockel zum Teil zusammen mit seinen sedimentären Deckschichten verfaltet, zum Teil wurden sie aber auch von ihrem Unterlager abgeschert und unabhängig von ihm gefaltet.Bisher wurde allgemein angenommen, daß die subandinen Sierren aus großen assymmetrischen Falten aufgebaut werden, die in den Deckschichten durch Kippung starrer Blöcke im tieferen Untergrund hervorgerufen wurden. Die genaue geokartographische Aufnahme eines Gebietes zwischen den Breitenkreisen 24° 45 und 26° südl. Breite und den Längenkreisen 64° 30 und 66° westl. Länge erbrachte Daten, die es erlauben, diese Vorstellung erheblich zu modifizieren.Weit durchhaltende Seitenverschiebungen, die die übergeordneten Strukturen des gesamten Gebietes schräg durchziehen und die Gestalt der Falten in den Sierren erheblich beeinflussen, wurden nachgewiesen. Sie stellen wahrscheinlich alte, präandine Lineamente dar, die während der Anden-Orogenese im Jungtertiär bis Altpleistozän reaktiviert Wurden.

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Resumen En el borde oriental de los Andes del Noroeste Argentino están representadas dos unidades estructurales: la Cordillera Oriental y las Sierras Subandinas.La Cordillera Oriental es una unidad constituida por bloques fallados y, en conjunto, elevada con respecto a las Sierras Subandinas. En la Cordillera Oriental el basamento metamórfico ha sido parcialmente plegado junto con la cobertura sedimentaria. En algunos casos lo cobertura ha sido despegada de su substrato y plegada independientemente.En general se aceptaba que las Sierras Subandinas coincidian con grandes anticlinales asimétricos producidos en la cobertura sedimentaria por el basculamiento de bloques rígidos de basamento situados en el subsuelo. La cartografía geológica-estructural detallada de la región comprendida por los paralelos 24° 45 y 26° S y los meridianos 64° 30 y 66° W ha proporcionado datos que permiten modificar considerablemente este esquema.Se ha comprobado la existencia de importantes fallas transcurrentes, fuertemente oblicuas con respecto a la estructura regional, que han tenido profunda influencia sobre la forma de los pliegues subandinos. Estas fallas oblicuas son probablemente lineamientos antiguos en los que el diastrofismo Andico (Plioceno-Pleistoceno) ha producido considerables desplazamientos paralelos al rumbo de los mismos.

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Résumé Dans la bordure orientale des Andes du Nord-ouest de l'Argentine, deux unités structurales différentes sont présentes: les Sierras subandines et la Cordillère orientale.La Cordillère orientale est composée d'un socle faiblement métamorphique faillé en blocs fortement surélevés par rapport aux Sierras subandines. Dans la Cordillère orientale, ce socle métamorphique a été en partie plissé avec sa couverture sédimentaire; mais parfois celle-ci a été décolée de son substratum et plissé indépendentement.Jusqu'à présent, on admettait que les Sierras subandines sont constituées de grands anticlinaux assymétriques produits dans la couverture par l'ascension de blocs faillés du socle. La cartographie géologico-structurale detaillée de la région comprise entre les parallèles 24° 45 et 26° de latitude sud et les méridiens 64° 30 et 60° ouest conduit à modifier considérablement ce schéma.D'importants décrochements très obliques par rapport à la direction de la structure régionale et qui ont fortement influencé la forme des plis subandins sont probablement des accidents anciens rajeunis pendant le diastrophisme andin au cours du Pliocène supérieur et du Pléistocène inférieur.

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Over this one-year study, the variations of inorganic As species were examined monthly along the salinity gradient of the Penzé estuary (NW France) in relation with different biogeochemical parameters. In most cases, dissolved As exhibited a non-conservative behaviour which resulted from the competition between two major processes. In the upstream section of the estuary, a strong input of both total inorganic As and As(III) occurred. Then, the removal of the same species, under precipitation of iron oxides/oxyhydroxides, was observed in the low-salinity range (S < 10). Using our experimental data, the fluxes of the various As species were estimated for the first time in estuarine waters. Inputs from the river were mainly constituted of particulate As (∼70%). Conversely, dissolved species were predominant in the net fluxes (∼65%) and As(III) accounted for ∼15% of the dissolved net flux.  相似文献   

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The Ediacaran is one of the most important periods on Earth evolution, including the first appearance of soft‐bodied macrofossils, major climatic changes and a supposed rise in free oxygen. In southernmost Brazil, this period is represented by Camaquã Supergroup, including the Bom Jardim Group and the Acampamento Velho Formation, both of which record continental palaeoenvironmental changes in a more than 5000 m thick stratigraphic succession. Age constraints are given by seven Ar‐Ar and U‐Pb determinations on volcanic rocks, which bracket these units between c. 605 and 574 Ma, revealing the best dated and most continuous documented Ediacaran continental succession to date. Depositional systems evolution supports a Phanerozoic‐type glacial context during the last Neoproterozoic glacial event and presents the Picada das Graças Formation (580 ± 3.6 Ma) as the first dated non‐glacial unit coeval to the Gaskiers Formation.  相似文献   

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The end of the Neoproterozoic is punctuated by glacial deposition, but the chronology of these deposits is hindered presently by the paucity of geochronological data. Here, we present new radiometric dating for the basal Sete Lagoas cap carbonate deposits that overlie glacial units in the São Francisco craton. Six samples from aragonite‐pseudomorph crystal‐rich facies, showing pristine textures and constant ⁸⁷Sr/⁸⁶Sr ratios around 0.7075, yielded a Pb–Pb isochron age of 740 ± 22 Ma, which is interpreted as the depositional age for these remarkably preserved rocks. This age can be used to infer a low‐to‐moderate palaeolatitude of 20–30° for carbonate (and glacial) deposition. In addition, as it overlaps the ages obtained for the oldest Neoproterozoic glacial successions, our result reinforces the idea of a long‐standing ‘Sturtian’ interval, suggesting that this event represents either different discrete glaciations or a protracted event encompassing almost 80 Ma.  相似文献   

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