Research Catalog

Title

Laurentia-Gondwana connections before Pangea / edited by Victor A. Ramos and J. Duncan Keppie.

Publication

Boulder, CO : Geological Society of America, 1999.

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Additional Authors

• Ramos, Víctor A.
• Keppie, J. Duncan.

Description

viii, 276 p. : ill., maps; 28 cm.

Series Statement

Special paper ; 336

Uniform Title

Special papers (Geological Society of America) ; 336.

Subjects

• Geology, Stratigraphic > Paleozoic
• Laurentia (Continent)
• Gondwana (Continent)
• Geology > South America

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Contents

Origin and evolution of the Precordillera terrane of western Argentina : a drifted Laurentian orphan / R.A. Astini and W.A. Thomas -- Paleontological constraints on successive paleogeographic positions of Precordillera terrane during the early Paleozoic / J.L. Benedetto ... [et al.] -- Facies and sequences of the Late Cambrian-Early Ordovician carbonates of the Argentine Precordillera : a stratigraphic comparison with Laurentian platforms / F.L. Cañas -- Ordovician western Sierras Pampeanas magmatic belt : record of Precordillera accretion in Argentina / S. Quenardelle and V.A. Ramos -- Uranium-lead dating of felsic magmatic cycles in the southern Sierras Pampeanas, Argentina : implications for the tectonic development of the proto-Andean Gondwana margin / P.G. Stuart-Smith ... [et al.] -- Closing the ocean between the Precordillera terrane and Chilenia : Early Devonian ophiolite emplacement and deformation in the southwest Precordillera / J.S. Davis ... [et al.] -- Puncoviscana Formation of northwestern and central Argentina : passive margin or foreland basin deposit? / J.D. Keppie and H. Bahlburg -- Magmatic sources and tectonic setting of Gondwana margin Ordovician magmas, northern Puna of Argentina and Chile / B.L. Coira ... [et al.] -- Paleomagnetic constraints on the Paleozoic suspect terranes from southern South America / A.E. Rapalini, R.A. Astini, and C.M. Conti -- Pb isotope evidence for Colombia-southern México connections in the Proterozoic / J. Ruiz ... [et al.] -- Middle American Precambrian basement : a missing piece of the reconstructed basement / J.D. Keppie and F. Ortega-Guitérrez -- Review of Paleozoic stratigraphy of México and its role in the Gondwana-Laurentia connections / J.L. Sánchez-Zavala, E. Centeno-García, and F. Ortega-Guitérrez -- Exotic Paleozoic strata of Gondwanan provenance near Ciudan Victoria, Tamaulipas, México / J.H. Stewart ... [et al.] -- Neoproterozoic-early Paleozoic evolution of Avalonia / J.B. Murphy ... [et al.] -- Odyssey of terranes in the Iapetus and Rheic oceans during the Paleozoic / J.D. Keppie and V.A. Ramos.

Call Number

JSF 00-479

ISBN

0813723361

LCCN

99047508

OCLC

42393596

Title

Laurentia-Gondwana connections before Pangea / edited by Victor A. Ramos and J. Duncan Keppie.

Imprint

Boulder, CO : Geological Society of America, 1999.

Series

Special paper ; 336

Special papers (Geological Society of America) ; 336.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references.

Added Author

Ramos, Víctor A.

Keppie, J. Duncan.

Research Call Number

JSF 00-479