INVESTIGADORES
HONGN Fernando Daniel
artículos
Título:
Age and kinematics of ductile deformation in the Cerro Durazno area, NW Argentina: significance for orogenic processes operating at the western margin of Gondwana during Ordovician – Silurian times
Autor/es:
WEGMANN, M., RILLER, U., HONGN, F., GLODNY, J., ONCKEN, O.
Revista:
JOURNAL OF SOUTH AMERICAN EARTH SCIENCES
Editorial:
Elsevier
Referencias:
Lugar: Amsterdan; Año: 2008 vol. 26 p. 78 - 90
ISSN:
0895-9811
Resumen:
The Cerro Durazno Pluton belongs to a suite of Paleozoic granitoid intrusions in NW-Argentina, that are central for understanding the tectonic setting of the western margin of Gondwana in Ordovician and Silurian times. The pluton and its host rocks were tectonically overprinted by metamorphic mineral shape fabrics formed under middle greenschist-facies metamorphic conditions and associated with the nearby Agua Rosada Shear Zone. Kinematic analysis of the shear zone based on the geometric relationship between individual segments of the shear plane and principal axes of mineral fabric ellipsoids indicates reverse-sense of shear with a minor component of left-lateral displacement. This is compatible with the kinematics of other ductile deformation zones in this area, collectively forming a network, which accomplished orogen-parallel extension in addition to vertical thickening. Using the Rb–Sr isotopic system, an undeformed pegmatite dike of the Cerro Durazno Pluton was dated at 455.8 ± 3.6 Ma and mineral fabrics of the Agua Rosada Shear Zone formed at middle greenschist-facies metamorphism gave deformation ages of 437.0 ± 3.8 Ma and 6428.4 ± 4.5 Ma. Thus, tectonic overprint at low metamorphic grade occurred about 20–30 Ma after terminal magmatism in the Cerro Durazno area. Our data from the Cerro Durazno area and regional considerations suggest that the western margin of Gondwana was characterized by orogen-parallel extension in additionto crustal thickening as well as episodes of magmatism and ductile deformation that varied greatly in time and space.