“…propositions, the present effort represents the first attempt to quantify the influence of the Pampean flat slab subduction in the thermal regime of the AP. Our findings are similar to those seen in deep Vinchina Basin (around 10 km depth), where sediments belonging to the depocenter were not thermally reset during Miocene deformation (Collo et al, 2011(Collo et al, , 2015(Collo et al, , 2018. Such unreset AFT ages (and also U-Th/He ages, see sample JT01) within the AP, a fold-and-thrust belt where the magnitude of erosion is probably >5 km (see Zapata and Allmendinger, 1996;Jordan et al, 2001;Fosdick et al, 2015, Val et al, 2016Nassif et al, 2019), suggest that other heating/cooling mechanisms apart from burial and exhumation may need to be invoked.…”