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JOURNAL OF SOUTH AMERICAN EARTH SCIENCES
卷 84, 期 -, 页码 127-148出版社
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.jsames.2018.03.015
关键词
Late Paleozoic Ice Age; Paleoclimate; Pennsylvanian; Paleovalley; Gondwana; Glaciation; Argentina
资金
- Geological Society of America
- Society for Sedimentary Geologists
- University of Wisconsin-Madison Center for Latin American and Caribbean studies
- Wisconsin Geological Society
- UWM RGI grant
- UWM Department of Geosciences
- Universidad de Buenos Aires
- USA National Science Foundation [1443557, 1559231, 1729219]
- CONICET
- Directorate For Geosciences
- Division Of Earth Sciences [1729219] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
- Office Of Internatl Science &Engineering
- Office Of The Director [1559231] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
Both global and regional climate drivers contributed to glaciation during the late Paleozoic Ice Age (LPIA). However, the transition from icehouse to greenhouse conditions was asynchronous across Gondwana suggesting that, in some cases, regional controls played a significant role in deglaciation. Of particular interest to understanding changing LPIA climatic conditions, is the eastern Paganzo Basin. This region was flanked by ice centers in the Precordilleran and Sierras Pampeanas regions of Argentina on the west, and major ice sheets in the Parana, Chaco-Parana, and Sauce Grande basins to the east, all of which resided between similar to 40 and 65 degrees S latitude. Hypotheses on the occurrence of ice in the eastern Paganzo Basin are based on interpretations of the narrow, steep-walled, Olta-Malanzan paleovalley as carved by an alpine glacier or by an outlet glacier draining an eastern ice sheet, and that glaciers deposited coarse clastics within the paleovalley. However, we found no evidence for glaciation. Rather, gravel from prograding alluvial fans/fan deltas and rock falls ponded drainage resulting in lacustrine activity in the eastern end of the valley. A transition from either subaerially or shallow subaqueously deposited sandstones to marine mudstones in the western end of the Olta paleovalley suggest a marine transgression, which, in turn, was overlain by deposits of prograding Gilbert-type deltas. Dropstones were from rock falls off valley walls and rafting by lake ice rather than from icebergs. Therefore, we conclude that the climate in western Argentina resulted from uplift induced glaciation in the Precordilleran region and along the western margin of the Paganzo Basin, and the occurrence of a precipitation shadow to the east. The disappearance of the western glaciers during the mid-Carboniferous, prior to deglaciation elsewhere at the same paleolatitude, resulted from a westward shift in the position of the active margin, collapse of the glaciated upland(s), and an expansion of the precipitation shadow across the whole of western Argentina.
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