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DOI | 10.1130/B31935.1 |
Reconstructing the thermal and exhumation history of the Sierras Pampeanas through low-temperature thermochronology: A case study from the Sierra de Velasco | |
Goddard A.L.S.; Larrovere M.A.; Carrapa B.; Aciar R.H.; Alvarado P. | |
发表日期 | 2018 |
ISSN | 167606 |
起始页码 | 1842 |
结束页码 | 1858 |
卷号 | 130期号:2021-11-12 |
英文摘要 | The Sierras Pampeanas of Argentina have been used as a classic case study to understand the processes and mechanisms involved in thick-skinned deformation; however, the history of exhumation and uplift of these ranges remains enigmatic. This study presents new thermochronology and field observations from the Sierra de Velasco, one of the highest relief ( > 4 km) and least studied mountains in the Sierras Pampeanas. Advances in the annealing and diffusion kinetics of the apatite fission track and (U-Th-Sm)/He systems provide the tools to interpret a data set with a complex Carboniferous to Miocene cooling history. Our results show that rocks sampled across 2 km of structural depth have experienced protracted exposure to temperatures at or above ~60 °C from ca. 320 to 120 Ma. The well-constrained thermal history allows us to identify subsequent thermal perturbations including an elevated geothermal gradient during Cretaceous rifting, late Cretaceous- Paleocene cooling due to isothermal relaxation and/or exhumation, and accelerated Miocene exhumation. Quantitative estimates of the minimum rock overburden suggest that 1.0 ± 0.8 km of rock has been eroded from the Sierra de Velasco since the early Miocene. Although a low geothermal gradient (≤25 °C/km) may support the exhumation of Sierra de Velasco coincident with the onset of flat-slab subduction in the late Miocene, we suggest inherited paleotopography existed before the Miocene and possibly since the Paleozoic. Final cooling and exhumation beginning in the early to middle Miocene, concurrent with the onset of flat slab subduction, contributed to the topography observed today, but cannot explain the entirety of the modern relief. We propose that a history of long-lived topography may be extrapolated throughout the Sierras Pampeanas region. © 2018 Geological Society of America. |
语种 | 英语 |
来源期刊 | Bulletin of the Geological Society of America
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文献类型 | 期刊论文 |
条目标识符 | http://gcip.llas.ac.cn/handle/2XKMVOVA/184999 |
作者单位 | Department of Geosciences, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85721, United States; Centro Regional de Investigaciones Científicas y Transferencia Tecnológica La Rioja, Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas, Anillaco, Argentina; Instituto de Geología y Recursos Naturales, Centro de Investigación e Innovación Tecnológica, Universidad Nacional de La Rioja, La Rioja, Argentina; Departamento de Geología, Facultad de Ciencias Exactas, Físicas y Naturales, Universidad Nacional de San Juan, San Juan, Argentina; Centro de Investigaciones de la Geosfera y la Biosfera, Departamento de Geofisica y Astronomita, Facultad de Ciencias Exactas, Físicas y Naturales, Universidad Nacional de San Juan-Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Tecnicas, San Juan, Argentina; The Center for Integrative Geosciences, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT, United States; Centro Regional de Investigaciones Cientificas y Técnicas Anillaco, Argentina |
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Goddard A.L.S.,Larrovere M.A.,Carrapa B.,et al. Reconstructing the thermal and exhumation history of the Sierras Pampeanas through low-temperature thermochronology: A case study from the Sierra de Velasco[J],2018,130(2021-11-12). |
APA | Goddard A.L.S.,Larrovere M.A.,Carrapa B.,Aciar R.H.,&Alvarado P..(2018).Reconstructing the thermal and exhumation history of the Sierras Pampeanas through low-temperature thermochronology: A case study from the Sierra de Velasco.Bulletin of the Geological Society of America,130(2021-11-12). |
MLA | Goddard A.L.S.,et al."Reconstructing the thermal and exhumation history of the Sierras Pampeanas through low-temperature thermochronology: A case study from the Sierra de Velasco".Bulletin of the Geological Society of America 130.2021-11-12(2018). |
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