Provenance, volcanic record, and tectonic setting of the Paleozoic Ventania Fold Belt and the Claromecó Foreland Basin: Implications onsedimentation and volcanism along the southwestern Gondwana margin
This study focuses on the provenance, volcanic record, and tectonic setting of the Paleozoic Ventania System, a geologic province which comprises the Cambro-Devonian Ventania Fold Belt and the adjoining Permo-Carboniferous Claromecó Foreland Basin, located inboard the deformation front. The Ventania...
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paper:paper_08959811_v47_n_p12_Alessandretti2023-06-08T15:48:41Z Provenance, volcanic record, and tectonic setting of the Paleozoic Ventania Fold Belt and the Claromecó Foreland Basin: Implications onsedimentation and volcanism along the southwestern Gondwana margin Ramos, Victor Alberto Claromecó Foreland Basin Geochemistry Provenance Tectonic setting Ventania fold belt continental margin deposition fold belt foreland basin geochemistry Gondwana Paleozoic passive margin petrography provenance quartzite sedimentation tectonic setting trace element volcanism Argentina Chile This study focuses on the provenance, volcanic record, and tectonic setting of the Paleozoic Ventania System, a geologic province which comprises the Cambro-Devonian Ventania Fold Belt and the adjoining Permo-Carboniferous Claromecó Foreland Basin, located inboard the deformation front. The Ventania Fold Belt is formed of the Curamalal and Ventana groups, which are composed mainly of mature quartzites that were unconformably deposited on igneous and metamorphic basement. The Pillahuincó Group is exposed as part of the Claromecó Basin and it has lithological and structural features totally distinct from the lowermost groups. This group is composed of immature arkoses and subarkoses with intercalated tuff horizons, unconformably overlaying the quartzites and associated with glacial-marine deposits of the lower Late Carboniferous to Early Permian section. The petrography, as well as major and trace elements (including rare earth elements) support that the Ventania quartzites were derived from cratonic sources and deposited in a passive margin environment. For the Pillahuincó Group, we suggest a transition between rocks derived from and deposited in a passive margin environment to those with geochemical and petrographical signatures indicative of an active continental margin provenance. LA-MC-ICP-MS analysis performed on euhedral and prismatic zircon grains of the tuffs revealed an age of 284±15Ma. The geochemical fingerprints and geochronological data of the tuffs found in the Claromecó Basin support the presence of an active and widespread Lower Permian pyroclastic activity in southwestern Gondwana, which is interpreted as part of the Choiyoi Volcanic Province in Argentina and Chile. © 2013 Elsevier Ltd. Fil:Ramos, V.A. Universidad de Buenos Aires. Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales; Argentina. 2013 https://bibliotecadigital.exactas.uba.ar/collection/paper/document/paper_08959811_v47_n_p12_Alessandretti http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12110/paper_08959811_v47_n_p12_Alessandretti |
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Claromecó Foreland Basin Geochemistry Provenance Tectonic setting Ventania fold belt continental margin deposition fold belt foreland basin geochemistry Gondwana Paleozoic passive margin petrography provenance quartzite sedimentation tectonic setting trace element volcanism Argentina Chile |
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Claromecó Foreland Basin Geochemistry Provenance Tectonic setting Ventania fold belt continental margin deposition fold belt foreland basin geochemistry Gondwana Paleozoic passive margin petrography provenance quartzite sedimentation tectonic setting trace element volcanism Argentina Chile Ramos, Victor Alberto Provenance, volcanic record, and tectonic setting of the Paleozoic Ventania Fold Belt and the Claromecó Foreland Basin: Implications onsedimentation and volcanism along the southwestern Gondwana margin |
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Claromecó Foreland Basin Geochemistry Provenance Tectonic setting Ventania fold belt continental margin deposition fold belt foreland basin geochemistry Gondwana Paleozoic passive margin petrography provenance quartzite sedimentation tectonic setting trace element volcanism Argentina Chile |
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This study focuses on the provenance, volcanic record, and tectonic setting of the Paleozoic Ventania System, a geologic province which comprises the Cambro-Devonian Ventania Fold Belt and the adjoining Permo-Carboniferous Claromecó Foreland Basin, located inboard the deformation front. The Ventania Fold Belt is formed of the Curamalal and Ventana groups, which are composed mainly of mature quartzites that were unconformably deposited on igneous and metamorphic basement. The Pillahuincó Group is exposed as part of the Claromecó Basin and it has lithological and structural features totally distinct from the lowermost groups. This group is composed of immature arkoses and subarkoses with intercalated tuff horizons, unconformably overlaying the quartzites and associated with glacial-marine deposits of the lower Late Carboniferous to Early Permian section. The petrography, as well as major and trace elements (including rare earth elements) support that the Ventania quartzites were derived from cratonic sources and deposited in a passive margin environment. For the Pillahuincó Group, we suggest a transition between rocks derived from and deposited in a passive margin environment to those with geochemical and petrographical signatures indicative of an active continental margin provenance. LA-MC-ICP-MS analysis performed on euhedral and prismatic zircon grains of the tuffs revealed an age of 284±15Ma. The geochemical fingerprints and geochronological data of the tuffs found in the Claromecó Basin support the presence of an active and widespread Lower Permian pyroclastic activity in southwestern Gondwana, which is interpreted as part of the Choiyoi Volcanic Province in Argentina and Chile. © 2013 Elsevier Ltd. |
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Ramos, Victor Alberto |
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Provenance, volcanic record, and tectonic setting of the Paleozoic Ventania Fold Belt and the Claromecó Foreland Basin: Implications onsedimentation and volcanism along the southwestern Gondwana margin |
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Provenance, volcanic record, and tectonic setting of the Paleozoic Ventania Fold Belt and the Claromecó Foreland Basin: Implications onsedimentation and volcanism along the southwestern Gondwana margin |
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Provenance, volcanic record, and tectonic setting of the Paleozoic Ventania Fold Belt and the Claromecó Foreland Basin: Implications onsedimentation and volcanism along the southwestern Gondwana margin |
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Provenance, volcanic record, and tectonic setting of the Paleozoic Ventania Fold Belt and the Claromecó Foreland Basin: Implications onsedimentation and volcanism along the southwestern Gondwana margin |
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Provenance, volcanic record, and tectonic setting of the Paleozoic Ventania Fold Belt and the Claromecó Foreland Basin: Implications onsedimentation and volcanism along the southwestern Gondwana margin |
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provenance, volcanic record, and tectonic setting of the paleozoic ventania fold belt and the claromecó foreland basin: implications onsedimentation and volcanism along the southwestern gondwana margin |
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