The geological history of northwestern South America: from Pangaea to the early collision of the Caribbean Large Igneous Province (290–75 Ma)

R Spikings, R Cochrane, D Villagomez… - Gondwana …, 2015 - Elsevier
Abstract Northwestern South America preserves a record of the assembly of western
Pangaea, its disassembly and initiation of the far western Tethys Wilson Cycle, subsequent …

The pre-Mesozoic metamorphic basement of Mexico, 1.5 billion years of crustal evolution

F Ortega-Gutiérrez, M Elías-Herrera… - Earth-Science …, 2018 - Elsevier
The pre-Mesozoic metamorphic geology of Mexico is summarized in this review through the
integral analysis of 11 deep orogenic systems composed altogether of more than 20 …

Permo-Triassic anatexis, continental rifting and the disassembly of western Pangaea

R Cochrane, R Spikings, A Gerdes, A Ulianov, A Mora… - Lithos, 2014 - Elsevier
Crustal anatectites are frequently observed along ocean–continent active margins, although
their origins are disputed with interpretations varying between rift-related and collisional. We …

The Grenville-age basement of the Andes

VA Ramos - Journal of South American Earth Sciences, 2010 - Elsevier
The analysis of the basement of the Andes shows the strong Grenville affinities of most of the
inliers exposed in the different terranes from Colombia to Patagonia. The terranes have …

A revised synthesis of the rift and drift history of the Gulf of Mexico and surrounding regions in the light of improved age dating of the Middle Jurassic salt

J Pindell, D Villagómez, R Molina-Garza, R Graham… - 2021 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
We present an updated, internally consistent synthesis of the Permo-Triassic assembly and
Mesozoic evolution of the Gulf of Mexico, Mexico, Florida–Bahamas and northern South …

[HTML][HTML] Late Paleozoic (Late Mississippian–Middle Permian) sediment provenance and dispersal in western equatorial Pangea

TF Lawton, RC Blakey, DF Stockli, L Liu - Palaeogeography …, 2021 - Elsevier
Abstract Late Mississippian to middle Permian sediment-dispersal networks of regional to
continental scale in western equatorial Pangea, depicted here in a series of …

Spatial-temporal migration of granitoid magmatism and the Phanerozoic tectono-magmatic evolution of the Colombian Andes

H Leal-Mejía, RP Shaw… - Geology and Tectonics of …, 2019 - Springer
Plutonic and hypabyssal porphyritic granitoids (and their volcanic equivalents) are important
constituents of the composite geological record of the Colombian Andes, not only from a …

Permian–Carboniferous arc magmatism in southern Mexico: U–Pb dating, trace element and Hf isotopic evidence on zircons of earliest subduction beneath the …

C Ortega-Obregón, L Solari, A Gómez-Tuena… - International Journal of …, 2014 - Springer
Undeformed felsic to mafic igneous rocks, dated by U–Pb zircon geochronology between
311 and 255 Ma, intrude different units of the Oaxacan and Acatlán metamorphic complexes …

The North American-Caribbean plate boundary in Mexico-Guatemala-Honduras

L Ratschbacher, L Franz, M Min… - Geological Society …, 2009 - lyellcollection.org
New structural, geochronological, and petrological data highlight which crustal sections of
the North American–Caribbean Plate boundary in Guatemala and Honduras accommodated …