The Crystalline Basement in the Argentinian North-Patagonian Andes: geochronology and tectonic interpretation.

  • Varela R
  • Basei M
  • Cingolani C
  • et al.
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Abstract

Isotopic data are presented for rocks of the Andean crystalline basement at 40°S, in Neuquén and Río Negro provinces. The methods used were U-Pb in zircon (crystallization ages of plutonic rocks), K-Ar in micas and U-Pb in titanite (metamorphism and cooling ages) and Sm-Nd in whole rock (crustal evolution). No Proterozoic ages were obtained as suggested by previous Rb-Sr and K-Ar data, and two different igneous-metamorphic events were identified. The older one is Devonian and exposed in San Martín de los Andes region, according to 420-380 Ma zircon ages and 375-310 Ma ages in micas of deformed tonalitic and granitic rocks. The younger one, in rocks cropping out to the south of Limay River region, is revealed by Early Permian zircon ages (about 280 Ma) and Late Permian cooling ages (260-250 Ma) of metaigneous rocks. The rocks of both sets were assigned to a magmatic arc environment and correlated respectively with the Chanic orogeny (Devonian; Upper Famatinian Cycle) and Gondwanic Cycle (Upper Paleozoic-Triassic). The Sm-Nd TDM model ages, ca.1907-1165 Ma, eNd for the crystallization age of the rocks ca. -3,0 and -8,4 and eNd(0) ca. -6,9-11,9 suggest reworking of continental proterozoic crust with minor addition of juvenile magmas from the mantle during the Paleozoic.

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Varela, R., Basei, M. A. S., Cingolani, C. A., Siga Jr., O., & Passarelli, C. R. (2010). The Crystalline Basement in the Argentinian North-Patagonian Andes: geochronology and tectonic interpretation. Andean Geology, 32(2). https://doi.org/10.5027/andgeov32n2-a01

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