Tectonic correlations of pre-Mesozoic crust from the northern termination of the Colombian Andes, Caribbean region |
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Authors: | Agustin Cardona Molina Umberto G Cordani William D MacDonald |
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Affiliation: | aUniversity of São Paulo, Brazil. Rua do Lago 562, CEP 05508-080, São Paulo, SP, Brazil;bState University of New York, Binghamton, NY 13902, USA |
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Abstract: | Reconnaissance zircon U/Pb SHRIMP, Ar–Ar, and Sm–Nd geochronology, petrological, and geochemical data were obtained from selected localities of two pre-Mesozoic metamorphic belts from the northern termination of the Colombian Andes in the Caribbean region. The older Proterozoic belt, with protoliths formed in a rift- or backarc-related environment, was metamorphosed at 6–8 kb and 760–810 °C during Late Mesoproterozoic times. This belt correlates with other high-grade metamorphic domains of the Andean realm that formed a Grenvillian-related collisional belt linked to the formation of Rodinia. The younger belt was formed over a continental arc at <530–450 Ma in a Gondwanide position and metamorphosed at 5–8 kb and 500–550 °C, probably during the Late Paleozoic–Triassic, as part of the terranes that docked with northwestern South America during the formation of Pangea. A Mesozoic Ar–Ar tectonothermal evolution can be related to regional magmatic events, whereas Late Cretaceous–Paleocene structural trends are related to the accretion of the allocthonous Caribbean subduction metamorphic belts. Lithotectonic correlations with other circum-Caribbean and southern North American pre-Jurassic domains show the existence of different terrane dispersal patterns that can be related to Pangea’s breakup and Caribbean tectonics. |
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Keywords: | Geochronology Geochemistry Metamorphism Correlations Caribbean Rodinia Pangea |
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