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Geology | 2007

Middle Eocene deformation and sedimentation in the Puna-Eastern Cordillera transition (23°-26°S): Control by preexisting heterogeneities on the pattern of initial Andean shortening

Fernando Hongn; C. del Papa; Jaime E. Powell; Ivan Alejandro Petrinovic; Ricardo Mon; Virginia Deraco

The Quebrada de los Colorados Formation, at the north end of Calchaqui Valley in Salta Province, northwest Argentina, preserves evidence of syndepositional deformation since the middle Eocene (ca. 40 Ma) that includes (1) an angular unconformity with the underlying Salta Group (Paleogene), and (2) internal unconformities and changes in vertical facies succession and provenance. Its fossil record [mammalian (notoungulates), middle Eocene] is correlatable to the Casa Grande Formation, which also unconformably overlies the Salta Group; both units record middle Eocene deformation along the eastern border of the Puna Plateau and outline previous fi rst-order mechanical heterogeneities related to the Cretaceous rift basin border. Along the western margin of the Puna, Eocene deformation coincides with thermal (magmatic arc) and mechanical (basin inversion) heterogeneities. Thus, the distribution of Eocene deformation followed an irregular pattern as a consequence of the heritage of preexisting heterogeneities.


International Journal of Earth Sciences | 1991

The structure of the Precambrian and Lower Paleozoic basement of the Central Andes between 22° and 32°S. Lat.

Ricardo Mon; Fernando Hongn

ZusammenfassungIm Andenbasement dieser Region lassen sich drei diastrophische Hauptzyklen, die durch ihren strukturellen Baustil und ihre geographische Verbreitung definiert sind, unterscheiden. Die ältesten Strukturen sind verknüpft mit den Bewegungen der Panamerikanischen Orogenese (500–700 m. a.), welche im Zentralkraton einen polydeformierten Komplex von Schiefern, Gneissen und Graniten erzeugte. Diesem lagern diskordant kambrische und ordovizische Sequenzen ohne Metamorphose und präandiner Deformation auf. Nach Westen zu gibt es einen Gürtel stark deformierter ordovizischer Sedimente, die einen einfacheren Baustil als das präkambrische Basement aufweisen, und diskordant von undeformierten devonischen Abfolgen bedeckt sind. Die Faltung des Ordoviziums wird der Ocloyischen Phase der Kaledonischen Bewegung zugerechnet.Weiter westwärts tritt ein jüngerer Faltengürtel aus devonischen Sedimenten auf, die während der Chanischen Phase der Herzynischen Bewegung intensiv deformiert wurden, und von karbonischen und permischen Sequenzen diskordant überlagert sind.Der Ocloyische Gürtel ist von postordovizischen Graniten die von devonischen Schichten überlagert sind, und der Chanische Gürtel von karbonischen und permischen Graniten intrudiert. Im präkambrischen Basement des Zentralkratons treten einerseits präkambrische Granite auf, denen diskordant kambrische Schichten auflagern. Andererseits findet man Granite mit paläozoischen Isotopenaltern, letztere aber in Gebieten, wo wegen des Fehlens von Deckschichten eine stratigraphische Kontrolle unmöglich ist.Die gemachten Beobachtungen scheinen darauf hinzudeuten, daß die paläozoischen Faltengürtel intrakratonisch sind. Ob es allochtone »terrains« in der pazifischen Küstenkordillere gibt, ist Gegenstand der Kontroverse.AbstractThree major diastrophic cycles, defined by their structural style and their spatial distribution are recognized in the Andean Basement of this region. The oldest structures are related to the Panamerican Orogeny (500 to 700 m. a.) which produced in the Central Craton multiply deformed complexes of schists, gneisses and granites, that are covered discordantly by unmetamorphosed Cambrian and Ordovician beds. West of the Central Craton Ordovician sedimentary beds are folded with a simple structural style and intruded by granites. Both the sedimentry beds and the granites are covered discordantly by undeformed Devonian sequences. The folding of the Ordovician is attributed to the ocloyic phase of the Caledonian movements. West of the ocloyic belt is another foldbelt consisting of strongly folded Devonian beds attributed to the chanic phase (hercynian). The chanic belt is intruded by carboniferous and permian granites and covered discordantly by Carboniferous and Permian sequences.The features observed in the eastern slope of the Andes suggest that the Paleozoic foldbelts are intracratonic. Whether there are accreted terrains in the Pacific Coastal Cordillera is matter of controversy.ResumenEn el basamento de los Andes de esta región se distinguen tres ciclos diastróficos mayores definidos por sus estilos estructurales y su distributión espacial. Las estructuras mas antiguas responden a movimientos que culminaron con la Orogénesis Panamericana (500–700 m. a.) que produjo en el Cratógeno Central un complejo de esquistos, gneises y granitos polideformados, al que se le superponen discordantemente secuencias cámbricas y ordovicicas sin metamorfismo ni déformatión preandina. Hacia el oeste hay un cinturón de sedimentos ordovícicos intensamente deformados con un estilo de plegamiento mas simple que el del basamento precámbrico y cubierto discordantemente por secuencias marinas devónicas sin deformatión. Los movimientos responsables de este plegamiento se atribuyen a la fase oclóyica de los movimientos caledónicos. Más hacia el oeste se manifiesta una franja de deformatión mas jóven atribuída a la Fase chánica de los movimientos hercínicos, en ella se encuentran sedimentitas devónicas intensamente plegadas cubiertas discordantemente por secuencias carbónicas y pérmicas.El cinturón oclóyico esta acompanãdo por granitos postordovícicos cubiertos por Devónico. Asimismo, el cinturón chánico (hercínico) esta intruido por granitos probablemente carbónicos. Con respecta a los granitos intruidos en el zócalo antiguo, hay algunos indudablemente precámbricos por estar cubiertos discordantemente por secuencias cámbricas sin metamorfismo, además hay granitos de edad dudosa que han dado valores isotópicos paleozoicos pero en lugares donde el control estratigráfico no es posible por ausencia de la cobertura paleozoica. De acuerdo a los hechos observados en la ladera oriental de los Andes surge la idea de que los cinturones de plegamiento paleozoicos son intracratónicos, aun es materia de controversia si en la Cordillera de la Costa junto al Pacifico hay terrenos alóctonos acrecionados.Краткое содержаниеВ названном регионе о снования Анд различа ют три больших диастроф ических цикла, отличающихся своими структурными стилям и и их географическим р асположением. Более древние структуры со ответствуют Панамер иканскому орогенезу (500–700 миллион ов лет), при котором они образ овались в центрально м кратогенном комплек се из кристаллическо го сланца, гнейсов и гран итов, на которые отлож ились несогласно кембрийс кие и ордовицкие седименты, не претерп евшие ни метаморфизм а, ни до-андскую деформа цию. На запад от центрального кратон а отмечен пояс сильно деформированных седиментов ордовицк ого возраста с более простым типом складок, чем в докембрийском основ ании, и с интрузиями гр анитов. Они покрыты несоглас но слоями морских девонских отложений, также не претерпевши х деформацию.За складкообразован ие в ордовике считают ответственным Оклож скую фазу каледонски х сдвигов. Далее на запа д от окложского пояса появляется регион се диментов девонского возраста, которые во в ремя чанской фазы герцинского горообр азовательного проце сса подверглись сильном у смятию в складки; их п ерекрывают свиты карбонового и п ермского возраста. Пояс Чана со держит интрузии гран итов карбонового и пермсо го возраста и покрыт несогласно свитами с едиментов того же возраста. В докембрий ском основании центр ального кратона находят с одн ой стороны докембрий ские граниты, на которых за легают несогласно отложени я кембрийского возра ста, а с другой стороны — гр аниты, соотношения изотопов в которых ук азывает на палеозойс кий возраст. Эти граниты н айдены также и в областях, где провест и точное стратиграфи ческое подразделение из-за о тсутствия покровных слоев невозможно.Отмеченные схемы на в осточном склоне Анд разрешают предпо лагать, что пояса скла док палеозоя являются ин тракратоновыми. Спорным остается воп рос существуют-ли зде сь участки аккреционно го материала в Кордил ьерах у берегов Тихого океа на.


Bollettino Della Societa Geologica Italiana | 2012

A Miocene Continental Basin associated with the back thrusting of the Eastern Sierras Pampeanas in the Santa Maria Valley,Northwestern Argentina

Ricardo Mon; Adolfo Antonio Gutiérrez; Francesc Sàbat; Diego Nicolas Iaffa

Geological research in the Santa Maria Valley began more than one hundred years ago. Most studies have focused on stratigraphic aspects of the valley. The present study addresses the structures of the Miocene sequences in the Santa Maria Valley, on which there has previously been a lack of information. The eastern border of the northern Sierras Pampeanas (northwestern Argentina), is dominated by NNE-SSW faults that form a back-thrust front extending for more than 800 km. Intermontane basins filled with Neogene beds are associated with this back-thrusting belt, one of which is the Santa Maria Valley, which makes up the southernmost portion of the Calchaqui Valley. The Santa Maria Valley was formed by two superposed tectonic events. The first event, during a phase of the Miocene (ca. 13-5 Ma), was an extension and volcanism during which a 5000-m-thick sedimentary succession of non-marine beds accumulated, lying directly on the crystalline Proterozoic basement. A compressional event followed, causing folding and thrusting. This contraction resulted in antiforms of sedimentary beds and the cry - stalline basement, and large basement-cored antiforms were formed, each of which corresponds to a range. The Cumbres Calchaquies and Aconquija Range antiforms, at the eastern border of the valley, were backthrust over the Miocene beds filling the valley. These two structures are separated by the Amaicha Valley, which coincides with a regional, oblique, NW-SE-trending fault showing strike-slip displacement. The Miocene beds filling the valley show overlappin relationships to the east and west; to the east, the beds overlap a structural high that coincides with a sedimentation-free area located east of the Santa Maria Valley. The Miocene sedimentation took place over an irregular floor with offsets delimited by normal faults. The most significant step strikes NW-SE and x approximately coincides with the fault trending along the Amaicha Valley.


Journal of South American Earth Sciences | 2010

Magmatism coeval with lower Paleozoic shelf basins in NW-Argentina (Tastil batholith): Constraints on current stratigraphic and tectonic interpretations

Fernando Hongn; José María Tubía; A. Aranguren; Néstor Vegas; Ricardo Mon; Gregory R. Dunning


Journal of Structural Geology | 2011

The role of inherited structures in a foreland basin evolution. The Metán Basin in NW Argentina

Diego Nicolas Iaffa; Francesc Sàbat; Josep Anton Muñoz; Ricardo Mon; Adolfo Antonio Gutiérrez


Tectonophysics | 2005

Curved structures and interference fold patterns associated with lateral ramps in the Eastern Cordillera, Central Andes of Argentina

Ricardo Mon; César R. Monaldi; José A. Salfity


Revista de la Asociación Geológica Argentina | 2010

Inversión y reactivación tectónicas cretácicocenozoicas en el Noroeste Argentino: influencia de las heterogeneidades del basamento neoproterozoico-paleozoico inferior

Fernando Hongn; Ricardo Mon; I.A. Petrinovic; Cecilia del Papa; Jaime E. Powell


Boletín geológico y minero | 2001

El batolito de Tastil (Salta, Argentina): un caso de magmatismo poliorogénico en el basamento andino

Fernando Daniel Hongn; José María Tubía Martínez; Ricardo Mon; Aitor Aranguren Iriarte


Journal of South American Earth Sciences | 2011

Tectonic inversion in a segmented foreland basin from extensional to piggy back settings: The Tucumán basin in NW Argentina

Diego Nicolas Iaffa; Francesc Sàbat; D. Bello; O. Ferrer; Ricardo Mon; Adolfo Antonio Gutiérrez


Geomorphology | 2009

The Mar Chiquita Lake: an indicator of intraplate deformation in the central plain of Argentina.

Ricardo Mon; Adolfo Antonio Gutiérrez

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Adolfo Antonio Gutiérrez

National Scientific and Technical Research Council

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Fernando Hongn

National Scientific and Technical Research Council

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Clara Eugenia Cisterna

National Scientific and Technical Research Council

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Jaime E. Powell

National Scientific and Technical Research Council

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A. Aranguren

University of the Basque Country

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Cecilia del Papa

National University of Cordoba

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Graciela Mabel Suvires

National University of San Juan

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I.A. Petrinovic

National Scientific and Technical Research Council

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