The Late Neoproterozoic-Early Paleozoic basin of the western Argentine Precordillera: Insights from zircon U-Pb geochronology

Boedo, Florencia Lucila; Luján, Sofía Pérez; Naipauer, Maximiliano; Vujovich, Graciela I.; Pimentel, Márcio Martins; Ariza, Juan P.; Barredo, Silvia

doi:10.1016/j.jsames.2020.102669

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“…Gabbros, basaltic dykes and/or sills, pillow basalts and metahyaloclastite bodies are also interbedded in marine siliciclastic successions (Davis et al 1999;Boedo et al 2013Boedo et al , 2020. Radiometric ages and palaeontological data suggest that sedimentation and basaltic magmatism in a marine basin occurred in this region during late Neoproterozoic -Early Devonian time (Davis et al 2000;Rubinstein & Steemans, 2007;Boedo et al 2020). This sector of the PMUB can be correlated with the Frontal Cordillera mafic-ultramafic belt, exposed S-wards in the Sierra de Guarguaraz, Argentine Frontal Cordillera (Fig.…”

Section: A the Western Argentine Precordilleramentioning

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“…This sector is characterized by serpentinites, ultramafic cumulates, mafic granulites and orthogneisses that are not exposed in the north. Gabbros, basaltic dykes and/or sills, pillow basalts and metahyaloclastite bodies are also interbedded in marine siliciclastic successions (Davis et al 1999;Boedo et al 2013Boedo et al , 2020. Radiometric ages and palaeontological data suggest that sedimentation and basaltic magmatism in a marine basin occurred in this region during late Neoproterozoic -Early Devonian time (Davis et al 2000;Rubinstein & Steemans, 2007;Boedo et al 2020).…”

Section: A the Western Argentine Precordilleramentioning

confidence: 99%

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The Cuyano proto-ocean between the Chilenia and Cuyania terranes: rifting and plume interaction during the Neoproterozoic – early Palaeozoic evolution of the SW Gondwana margin

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The Precordillera mafic–ultramafic belt (PMUB), located in central-western Argentina, comprises mafic and ultramafic bodies interlayered and/or in tectonic contact with marine siliciclastic units. Whole-rock, mineral geochemistry and Nd–Sr isotope analyses performed in magmatic rocks suggest a relatively different spatial and temporal evolution along the belt. The southern PMUB (south of 32° S) evolved as an intra-continental rifted margin with an enriched mid-ocean-ridge basalt (E-MORB) tholeiitic to alkaline magmatism, to a proto-ocean basin (the Cuyano proto-ocean) with tholeiitic normal-MORB geochemical signature. Based on neodymium model ages (TDM), the magmatic activity started during the late Neoproterozoic Era and continued into the early Palaeozoic Era. Instead, the northern PMUB (28–32° S) evolved as an intra-continental rifted margin with dominant tholeiitic E-MORB to continental flood basalt (CFB) magmatism during the early Palaeozoic Era. ϵNd values (+3.4 to +8.4), rare earth element trends and high-field-strength element systematics, together with an estimated potential mantle temperature of c. 50–100°C above ambient mantle, suggest the PMUB magmatism derived from an enriched mantle source related to the effect of a rising plume linked to the Iapetus Ocean opening. In particular, TDM estimations of 600–550 Ma agree with reported magmatism in central to southern Appalachians. The magmatism in the PMUB, and those registered in the Neoproterozoic Catoctin Formation and in the Southern Oklahoma Aulacogen in the conjugated Laurentian margin, seem to be contemporaneous, sharing a similar plume-enriched mantle source. In this context, the E-MORB signature identified along the PMUB can be described as a plume-distal ridge tectonic setting over an extended margin.

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