In order to ending the presentation of the Book the geological map compilation of the San Rafael Block is offered. It is separated in three main sectors, with the location of the outcrops of the pre-Carboniferous units ...

A review of the Middle Ordovician conodont fauna of the southern sector of the Ponón Trehué Creek, Mendoza Province, Argentina, is presented in this contribution. Different genera and species of conodonts were recovered ...

First day: Departure from San Juan City by bus, at 8 AM. Arrival at San Rafael City (about 370 km towards the South) in Mendoza Province at lunch time. During the trip by the plain road we can see the Eastern Precordillera ...

The widespread Sanrafaelic remagnetization reset most of the early Cambrian to mid-Ordovician carbonate platform of the Argentine Precordillera and the calcareous units of the San Rafael Block. We conducted a detailed ...

The present chapter deals with provenance analysis of a carbonate-siliciclastic Ordovician sedimentary unit of the San Rafael block, named the Ponón Trehué Formation (Darriwilian to Sandbian). This is the only sequence ...

The San Rafael Block is included as a part of the pre-Andean region, in the southern sector of the Argentine Precordillera-Cuyania terrane, within the western Gondwana margin. The Río Seco de los Castaños Formation (Upper ...

The aim of the present study was to characterize in detail the Triassic structures of the Puesto Viejo Basin in San Rafael Block, western Argentina, and to establish the role of these previous structures in the development ...

The pre-Carboniferous evolution of the San Rafael Block is described in different stages. The first one is referred to the Mesoproterozoic basement derived from a complex plutonic and volcanic protolith of Cerro La Ventana ...