Splendid and seldom isolated: the paleobiogeography of Patagonia

P Wilf, NR Cúneo, IH Escapa, D Pol… - Annual Review of …, 2013 - annualreviews.org
The idea that South America was an island continent over most of the Cenozoic, during
which its unusual mammalian faunas evolved in isolation, is outstandingly influential in …

A geodynamic model linking Cretaceous orogeny, arc migration, foreland dynamic subsidence and marine ingression in southern South America

GM Gianni, FM Dávila, A Echaurren, L Fennell… - Earth-Science …, 2018 - Elsevier
This study synthesizes the tectonomagmatic evolution of the Andes between 35° 30′ S to
48° S with the aim to spotlight early contractional phases on Andean orogenic building and …

Repeated eastward shifts of arc magmatism in the Southern Andes: a revision to the long-term pattern of Andean uplift and magmatism

A Folguera, VA Ramos - Journal of South American Earth Sciences, 2011 - Elsevier
The Southern Andes have been built through the stacking of crustal sheets in discrete
periods during the last 100 My. The first important shortening took place in Late Cretaceous …

Tectonic evolution of the North Patagonian Andes (41–44 S) through recognition of syntectonic strata

A Echaurren, A Folguera, G Gianni, D Orts, A Tassara… - Tectonophysics, 2016 - Elsevier
Abstract The North Patagonian fold-thrust belt (41°–44° S) is characterized by a low
topography, reduced crustal thickness and a broad lateral development determined by a …

Patagonian broken foreland and related synorogenic rifting: The origin of the Chubut Group Basin

G Gianni, C Navarrete, D Orts, J Tobal, A Folguera… - Tectonophysics, 2015 - Elsevier
Abstract The Central Patagonia is characterized by prominent continental deposits that
belong to the Cretaceous Chubut Group Basin, whose tectonic setting remains controversial …

U–Pb zircon ages from the northern Austral basin and their correlation with the Early Cretaceous exhumation and volcanism of Patagonia

MC Ghiglione, M Naipauer, C Sue, V Barberón… - Cretaceous …, 2015 - Elsevier
The end of the Early Cretaceous sag stage along the Southern Patagonian Andes is
indicated by the sudden appearance of shallow marine to deltaic sandstones on top of deep …

Green Web or megabiased clock? Plant fossils from Gondwanan Patagonia speak on evolutionary radiations

P Wilf, IH Escapa - New Phytologist, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Evolutionary divergence‐age estimates derived from molecular 'clocks' are frequently
correlated with paleogeographic, paleoclimatic and extinction events. One prominent …

Late Paleozoic-Jurassic tectonic evolution of the eastern Deseado Massif in central-southern Patagonia

C Navarrete, J Bastías-Silva, G Gianni, G Jalfin… - Journal of …, 2023 - Elsevier
Previous tectonic studies have indicated that the peri-cratonic lithosphere, located away
from continental margins, is sensitive to far-field stresses propagating from active plate …

Early Andean tectonomagmatic stages in north Patagonia: insights from field and geochemical data

A Echaurren, V Oliveros, A Folguera… - Journal of the …, 2017 - lyellcollection.org
The Andes in northern Patagonia are mainly formed by Mesozoic magmatic units: the mostly
Jurassic–Cretaceous North Patagonian Batholith and volcanism of the Jurassic Lago La …

Episodic Jurassic to lower Cretaceous intraplate compression in Central Patagonia during Gondwana breakup

C Navarrete, G Gianni, A Echaurren, FL Kingler… - Journal of …, 2016 - Elsevier
Abstract From Lower Jurassic to Lower Cretaceous, several intraplate compression events
affected discrete sectors of Central Patagonia, under a general context of crustal extension …