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The Argentine Precordillera is located in the central western region of Argentina, within the Central Andes. Throughout its westernmost sector, mafic and ultramafic bodies including serpentinites, mafic granulites, basaltic dikes/sills and pillow lavas are associated with metasedimentary rocks deposited in a deep marine and slope environment. These magmatic units, which are known as the Precordillera ultramafic-mafic belt, are considered to have a range of Early Paleozoic agebased on published U-Pb zircon ages and fossil fauna. The entire sequence shows the effects of complex polyphase Paleozoic deformation and was subjected to a low grade metamorphism considered to be of middle-late Devonian age. The chemistry of the Peñasco and Cortaderas mafic dikes and sills in the southern part of this belt, which are largely plagioclase+clinopyroxene-bearing tholeiitic basalts, is the focus of this study. These volcanic rocks all have E-MORB-like major and trace element and εNd (+6.0 to+9.3) signatures with similarities to those previously reported throughout the belt. The new descriptions and major and trace-element analyses presented here confirm the similarity of the E-MORB-like chemistry of the Early Paleozoic mafic rocks along the entire belt, which spans some 500km in length. There is a general consensus that these units are exposed as a consequence of the collision of the Chilenia terrane against the Gondwana margin during the middle to late Devonian, but the details of timing, the origins of the continental blocks and the nature of the collision are still debated. The results presented support the western Precordillera basaltic dikes/sills as having formed in the early stages of oceanic rifting along the Gondwana (Precordillera) continental margin with their E-MORB-like character reflecting mixing of depleted and enriched mantle and continental lithospheric sources. © 2013 Elsevier Ltd.

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Documento: Artículo
Título:The E-MORB like geochemical features of the Early Paleozoic mafic-ultramafic belt of the Cuyania terrane, western Argentina
Autor:Boedo, F.L.; Vujovich, G.I.; Kay, S.M.; Ariza, J.P.; Pérez Luján, S.B.
Filiación:Instituto de Estudios Andinos Don Pablo Groeber (UBA-CONICET), Departamento de Ciencias Geológicas, Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Cornell University, Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences and INSTOC, Ithaca, NY 14853, United States
Instituto Geofísico Sismológico Ing. Volponi (UNSJ-CONICET), Facultad de Ciencias Exactas, Físicas y Naturales, Universidad Nacional de San Juan, San Juan, Argentina
CONICET - Dpto. de Geofísica y Astronomía, Facultad de Ciencias Exactas, Físicas y Naturales, Universidad Nacional de San Juan, San Juan, Argentina
Palabras clave:Continental margin ophiolite; Geochemistry; Western Gondwana; Western Precordillera; collision zone; continental margin; Devonian; dike; Gondwana; igneous geochemistry; lithospheric structure; mafic rock; mid-ocean ridge basalt; ophiolite; Paleozoic; sill; trace element; ultramafic rock; uranium-lead dating; Andes; Argentina; Precordillera
Año:2013
Volumen:48
Página de inicio:73
Página de fin:84
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jsames.2013.09.003
Título revista:Journal of South American Earth Sciences
Título revista abreviado:J. South Am. Earth Sci.
ISSN:08959811
Registro:https://bibliotecadigital.exactas.uba.ar/collection/paper/document/paper_08959811_v48_n_p73_Boedo

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Boedo, F.L., Vujovich, G.I., Kay, S.M., Ariza, J.P. & Pérez Luján, S.B. (2013) . The E-MORB like geochemical features of the Early Paleozoic mafic-ultramafic belt of the Cuyania terrane, western Argentina. Journal of South American Earth Sciences, 48, 73-84.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jsames.2013.09.003
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Boedo, F.L., Vujovich, G.I., Kay, S.M., Ariza, J.P., Pérez Luján, S.B. "The E-MORB like geochemical features of the Early Paleozoic mafic-ultramafic belt of the Cuyania terrane, western Argentina" . Journal of South American Earth Sciences 48 (2013) : 73-84.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jsames.2013.09.003
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Boedo, F.L., Vujovich, G.I., Kay, S.M., Ariza, J.P., Pérez Luján, S.B. "The E-MORB like geochemical features of the Early Paleozoic mafic-ultramafic belt of the Cuyania terrane, western Argentina" . Journal of South American Earth Sciences, vol. 48, 2013, pp. 73-84.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jsames.2013.09.003
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Boedo, F.L., Vujovich, G.I., Kay, S.M., Ariza, J.P., Pérez Luján, S.B. The E-MORB like geochemical features of the Early Paleozoic mafic-ultramafic belt of the Cuyania terrane, western Argentina. J. South Am. Earth Sci. 2013;48:73-84.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jsames.2013.09.003