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Petrology and geochronology of the San Martín de los Andes batholith: Insights into the Devonian magmatism of the North Patagonian Andes
(Pergamon-Elsevier Science Ltd, 2021-08)
Evidence is growing that a belt of Devonian plutonism is present in the Northern Patagonian segment of the present-day Andes. This plutonism formed along the paleo-Pacific margin of the Gondwana supercontinent. New whole ...
Patagonian broken foreland and related synorogenic rifting: The origin of the Chubut Group Basin
(Elsevier Science, 2015-05)
The Central Patagonia is characterized by prominent continental deposits that belong to the Cretaceous Chubut Group Basin, whose tectonic setting remains controversial. It has been interpreted as a foreland basin, an ...
Have the southernmost Andes been curved since Late Cretaceous time? An analog test for the Patagonian Orocline
(Geological Society of America, 2007-01)
The kinematic evolution of the enigmatic arc-shaped southernmost Andes of Patagonia and Tierra del Fuego has been a subject of debate for most of the past century. We compared the results from analog sandbox experiments ...
Along-strike structural variations in the Southern Patagonian Andes: Insights from physical modeling
(Elsevier Science, 2013-04)
The Southern Patagonian Andes between 48° and 53° SL offers a unique opportunity to study the results of orogenic growth superimposed over a previously rifted region. In this sector the northern Austral or Magallanes basin ...
Landscapes and Geology of Patagonia: An Introduction to the Land of Reptiles
(Springer, 2020)
The purpose of this chapter is to summarize the geological-geomorphologicalregions of Patagonia with a general characterization of the maingeomorphological units. A review of studies on geology, stratigraphic, main ...
The North Patagonian Orogen: Meso-Cenozoic Evolution from the Andes to the Foreland Area
(Springer, 2015)
In the last decades an important amount of studies have dealt with the Patagonian orogen. However, an holistic approach on the evolution of this sector has not been addressed yet. A review of recent advances in different ...
Recent geodetic mass balance of Monte Tronador glaciers, northern Patagonian Andes
(Copernicus Publications, 2017-02)
Glaciers in the northern Patagonian Andes (35-46°gS) have shown a dramatic decline in area in the last decades. However, little is known about glacier mass balance changes in this region. This study presents a geodetic ...
Constraints on the Neogene growth of the central Patagonian Andes at the latitude of the Chile triple junction (45–47°S) using U/Pb geochronology in synorogenic strata
(Elsevier Science, 2018-10)
Desertification of Central Patagonia began between ~14–12 Ma and therefore was not directly connected to the opening of the Drake Passage and initial conformation of the Antarctica ice cap in early Miocene times. Local ...
A paleomagnetic analysis of the Patagonian Orocline
(Universidad de Barcelona. Facultat de Ciènces de la Terra, 2007-12)
The dramatic change in the structural trend of the Andean orogen in southernmost Patagonia has long been considered a possible example of a true orocline. Paleomagnetism has proved a powerful tool to determine whether a ...
Cenozoic basin evolution of the Central Patagonian Andes: Evidence from geochronology, stratigraphy, and geochemistry
(Elsevier, 2019-05)
The Central Patagonian Andes is a particular segment of the Andean Cordillera that has been subjected to the subduction of two spreading ridges during Eocene and Neogene times. In order to understand the Cenozoic geologic ...