• The Precordillera Terrane or Cuyania was an ancient microcontinent or terrane whose history affected many of the older rocks of Cuyo in Argentina. It...
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  • was once separated by oceanic crust from the Cuyania terrane to which it accreted at ~420-390 Ma when Cuyania was already amalgamated with Gondwana. Andes –...
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    Gondwana scraped against southeast Laurentia in the Ordovician. This is the Cuyania or Precordillera terrane of the Famatinian orogeny in northwest Argentina...
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    the Cuyania terrane would be an allochthonous block of Laurentian origin that was left in Gondwana. But such views are challenged since Cuyania is alternatively...
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    Arctica Asiamerica Atlantica Avalonia Baltica Chilenia Cimmeria Congo Craton Cuyania East Antarctica Euramerica Kalaharia Kazakhstania Laramidia Laurentia North...
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    Arequipa-Antofalla Mejillones Peninsula Chilenia Chaitenia Chiloé Block Cuyania Pampia Patagonia Fitz Roy Madre de Dios  Andes portal  Geology portal v...
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  • amalgamated to the old cratons of the east, and was followed by the suturing of Cuyania and Chilenia terranes into the young South American Plate. Casquet, C;...
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    accretion of many smaller land masses and island arcs. These include Chilenia, Cuyania, and Chaitenia, which now form much of Chile and Patagonia. These collisions...
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    subduction went on, the peak of the orogeny resulted from the collision of the Cuyania terrane with Pampia in the Ordovician. It has been suggested that the coeval...
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  • Arequipa-Antofalla Chaitenia Chilenia Chiloé Block Cuchilla Dionisio Terrane Cuyania Fitz Roy Terrane Madre de Dios Terrane Mejillonía Nico Pérez Terrane Pampia...
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  • Ancient microcontinent, containing central Chile and western Argentina Cuyania – Ancient microcontinent now part of Argentina Laramidia – Island continent...
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  • Neoproterozoic 550 Ma Cimmeria Neoproterozoic 550 Ma Laurasia Neoproterozoic 550 Ma Cuyania Paleozoic ~420-390 Ma Chilenia Paleozoic ~420-390 Ma Pangaea Paleozoic...
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  • Arctica Asiamerica Atlantica Avalonia Baltica Chilenia Cimmeria Congo Craton Cuyania East Antarctica Euramerica Kalaharia Kazakhstania Laramidia Laurentia North...
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    Geology of Chile Terranes Arequipa-Antofalla Chaitenia Chilenia Chiloé Cuyania Fitz Roy Madre de Dios Mejillonia Patagonia Sedimentary formations and...
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    orogeny took place near the right border of the area marked as "Río Plata". Terranes and microcontinents such as Cuyania, Pampia and Chilenia are omitted....
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  • tectonostratigraphic view, some geologists consider it an exposure of the Cuyania (Precordillera) terrane being its southern extension. The San Rafael Block...
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    culminated in the accretion of the Cuyania (Precordillera) terrane. Paleomagnetic evidence suggests that this Cuyania terrane is of Laurentian origin, and...
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  • Arequipa-Antofalla Mejillones Peninsula Chilenia Chaitenia Chiloé Block Cuyania Pampia Patagonia Fitz Roy Madre de Dios  Andes portal  Geology portal v...
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    North American plate). The separation of the Precordillera (also named Cuyania) started around the early Cambrian. The mass collided with Gondwana (the...
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  • Geology of Chile Terranes Arequipa-Antofalla Chaitenia Chilenia Chiloé Cuyania Fitz Roy Madre de Dios Mejillonia Patagonia Sedimentary formations and...
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  • Intermediate Depression. Geological history of the precordillera terrane Cuyania – Ancient microcontinent now part of Argentina "precordillera". Diccionario...
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  • 2017-08-21. Finney, S.C. 2007. The parautochthonous Gonwanan origin of the Cuyania (greater Precordillera) terrane of Argentina: A re-evaluation of evidence...
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