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During the Cretaceous, the Neuquén Basin transitioned from an extensional back-arc to a retroarc foreland basin. We present a multi-proxy provenance study of Aptian to Santonian (125–84 Ma) continental sedimentary rocks preserved in the Neuquén Basin used to resolve changes of sediment drainage pattern in response to the change in tectonic regime. Sandstone petrology and U–Pb detrital zircon geochronology constrain the source units delivering detritus to the basin; apatite U–Pb and fission track dating further resolve provenance and determine the age and patterns of exhumation of the source rocks. Sandstone provenance records a sharp change from a mixed orogenic source during Aptian time (ca. 125 Ma), to a magmatic arc provenance in the Cenomanian (ca. 100 Ma). We interpret this provenance change as the result of the drainage pattern reorganisation from divergent to convergent caused by tectonic basin inversion. During this inversion and early stages of contraction, a transient phase of uplift and basin erosion, possibly due to continental buckling, caused the pre-Cenomanian unconformity dividing the Lower from Upper Cretaceous strata in the Neuquén Basin. This phase was followed by the development of a retroarc foreland basin characterised by a volcanic arc sediment provenance progressively shifting to a mixed continental basement provenance during Turonian-Santonian (90–84). According to multi-proxy provenance data and lag times derived from apatite fission track analysis, this trend is the result of a rapidly exhuming source within the Cordillera to the west, in response to active compressional tectonics along the western margin of South America, coupled with the increasing contribution of material from the stable craton to the east; this contribution is thought to be the result of the weak uplift and exhumation of the foreland due to eastward migration of the forebulge. © 2015 The Authors. Basin Research © 2015 John Wiley & Sons Ltd, European Association of Geoscientists & Engineers and International Association of Sedimentologists

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Título:Cretaceous evolution of the Andean margin between 36°S and 40°S latitude through a multi-proxy provenance analysis of Neuquén Basin strata (Argentina)
Autor:Di Giulio, A.; Ronchi, A.; Sanfilippo, A.; Balgord, E.A.; Carrapa, B.; Ramos, V.A.
Filiación:Dipartimento di Scienze della Terra e dell'Ambiente, Università di Pavia, Pavia, Italy
Department of Geosciences, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, United States
Instituto de Estudios Andinos, Universidad de Buenos Aires-CONICET, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Palabras clave:backarc basin; compression; Cretaceous; exhumation; extensional tectonics; fission track dating; foreland basin; provenance; sandstone; tectonic evolution; uplift; uranium-lead dating; Argentina; Neuquen Basin
Año:2017
Volumen:29
Número:3
Página de inicio:284
Página de fin:304
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/bre.12176
Título revista:Basin Research
Título revista abreviado:Basin Res.
ISSN:0950091X
Registro:https://bibliotecadigital.exactas.uba.ar/collection/paper/document/paper_0950091X_v29_n3_p284_DiGiulio

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Di Giulio, A., Ronchi, A., Sanfilippo, A., Balgord, E.A., Carrapa, B. & Ramos, V.A. (2017) . Cretaceous evolution of the Andean margin between 36°S and 40°S latitude through a multi-proxy provenance analysis of Neuquén Basin strata (Argentina). Basin Research, 29(3), 284-304.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/bre.12176
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Di Giulio, A., Ronchi, A., Sanfilippo, A., Balgord, E.A., Carrapa, B., Ramos, V.A. "Cretaceous evolution of the Andean margin between 36°S and 40°S latitude through a multi-proxy provenance analysis of Neuquén Basin strata (Argentina)" . Basin Research 29, no. 3 (2017) : 284-304.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/bre.12176
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Di Giulio, A., Ronchi, A., Sanfilippo, A., Balgord, E.A., Carrapa, B., Ramos, V.A. "Cretaceous evolution of the Andean margin between 36°S and 40°S latitude through a multi-proxy provenance analysis of Neuquén Basin strata (Argentina)" . Basin Research, vol. 29, no. 3, 2017, pp. 284-304.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/bre.12176
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Di Giulio, A., Ronchi, A., Sanfilippo, A., Balgord, E.A., Carrapa, B., Ramos, V.A. Cretaceous evolution of the Andean margin between 36°S and 40°S latitude through a multi-proxy provenance analysis of Neuquén Basin strata (Argentina). Basin Res. 2017;29(3):284-304.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/bre.12176