The Sierra de Cachi (Salta, NW Argentina): geological evidence about a Famatinian retro-arc at mid crustal levels
The Cachi mountain ranges, located in Salta (NW Argentina), form an inlier where Neoproterozoic and Paleozoic materials of the Andes crop out in a plutono-metamorphic dome surrounded by Mesozoic and Cenozoic sedimentary rocks. The pre-Mesozoic rocks record a regional metamorphism of low pressure and...
Gespeichert in:
Veröffentlicht in: | Cuadernos de geología ibérica 2014-01, Vol.40 (2), p.225 |
---|---|
Hauptverfasser: | , , , , , , , |
Format: | Artikel |
Sprache: | eng |
Schlagworte: | |
Online-Zugang: | Volltext |
Tags: |
Tag hinzufügen
Keine Tags, Fügen Sie den ersten Tag hinzu!
|
Zusammenfassung: | The Cachi mountain ranges, located in Salta (NW Argentina), form an inlier where Neoproterozoic and Paleozoic materials of the Andes crop out in a plutono-metamorphic dome surrounded by Mesozoic and Cenozoic sedimentary rocks. The pre-Mesozoic rocks record a regional metamorphism of low pressure and high temperature conditions, which reached partial melting conditions and was coeval with the intrusion of sheeted granite and trondhjemite plutons. The metamorphic evolution and the emplacement of the plutons took place in an extensional tectonic setting. New U-Pb zircon dating by TIMS and SHRIMP methods yields similar ages for the migmatization (479.7 [+ or -] 3.5 Ma) and the emplacement of granites (472.1 [+ or -] 11 Ma), constraining the extensional event to Early Ordovician times. We also report the finding of gabbro boulders, which also yield a similar U-Pb SHRIMP zircon age of 477.5 [+ or -] 3.9 Ma. So, we propose that the extensional event recognized in Sierra de Cachi took place in a retro-arc setting linked to the Famatinian subduction along the western border of Gondwana. The shortening produced by younger east-verging folds evidences the superposition of a compressional stress field, probably related with the Ocloyic orogeny (Middle/Late Ordovician-Devonian). Keywords: U-Pb geochronology, Famatinian retro-arc, Cachi ranges, Argentina En la Sierra de Cachi, situada en Salta (NO de Argentina), afloran rocas neoproterozoicas y paleozoicas de los Andes en un domo plutono-metamorfico flanqueado por rocas sedimentarias mesozoicas y cenozoicas. Estas rocas registran un metamorfismo de alta temperatura y baja presion, que alcanzo condiciones de fusion parcial y fue coetaneo del emplazamiento de plutones de granitos y trondhjemitas. El metamorfismo y el emplazamiento de los plutones se produjo en condiciones extensionales. Nuevos analisis de U-Pb en zircones, por los metodos TIMS y SHRIMP, proporcionan edades similares para la migmatizacion (479,7 [+ or -] 3,5 Ma) y el emplazamiento de los granitos (472,1 [+ or -] 11 Ma), acotando el evento extensional al Ordovicico Inferior. Tambien describimos el hallazgo de bloques de gabros que dan una edad U-Pb SHRIMP en circones semejante, de 477,5 [+ or -] 3,9 Ma. Por lo tanto, se propone que el evento extensional descrito en la Sierra de Cachi tuvo lugar en una zona de retro-arco asociada a la subduccion famatiniana del borde occidental de Gondwana. El acortamiento producido por los pliegues mas jovenes vergentes al |
---|---|
ISSN: | 0378-102X 1698-6180 1886-7995 |
DOI: | 10.5209/rev_JIGE.2014.v40.n2.45303 |