The Grenville-age basement of the Andes |
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| Authors: | Victor A Ramos |
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| Institution: | 1. Research School of Earth Sciences, Australian National University, Mills Road, Canberra ACT 0200, Australia;2. Escuela de Ciencias de la Tierra, Universidad Nacional Andres Bello, Salvador Sanfuentes 2375, Santiago, Chile;3. Departamento de Geología, Universidad de Chile, Plaza Ercilla 803, Santiago, Chile;4. Unidad de Geoquímica, Servicio Nacional de Geología y Minería, Av. Santa María 0104, Santiago, Chile |
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| Abstract: | The analysis of the basement of the Andes shows the strong Grenville affinities of most of the inliers exposed in the different terranes from Colombia to Patagonia. The terranes have different histories, but most of them participated in the Rodinia supercontinent amalgamation during the Mesoproterozoic between 1200 and 1000 Ma. After Rodinia break-up some terranes were left in the Laurentian side such as Cuyania and Chilenia, while others stayed in the Gondwanan side. Some of the terranes once collided with the Amazon craton remained attached, experiencing diverse rifting episodes all along the Phanerozoic, as the Arequipa and Pampia terranes. Some other basement inliers were detached in the Neoproterozoic and amalgamated again to Gondwana in the Early Cambrian, Middle Ordovician or Permian times. A few basement inliers with Permian metamorphic ages were transferred to Gondwana after Pangea break-up from the Laurentian side. Some of them were part of the present Middle America terrane. An exceptional case is the Oaxaquia terrane that was detached from the Gondwana margin after the Early Ordovician and is now one of the main Mexican terranes that collided with Laurentia. These displacements, detachments, and amalgamations indicate a complex terrane transfer between Laurentia and Gondwana during Paleozoic times, following plate reorganizations and changes in the absolute motion of Gondwana. |
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