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      El corredor tectónico juro-cretácico Santa Lucía-Aiguá-Merín (Uruguay): evidencias cinemáticas transcurrentes dextrales y controles estructurales preexistentes Translated title: The Jura-Cretaceous tectonic Lineament of Santa Lucia-Aiguá-Merin (Uruguay): Kinematic evidences of dextral transcurrent faults and preexisting structural controls

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          Se describen nuevas evidencias cinemáticas de la actuación de una deformación transcurrente con componente dextral a lo largo del corredor Santa Lucía-Aiguá-Merín del Uruguay durante el Juro-Cretácico. Las mismas fueron estudiadas en dos áreas que corresponden al dominio central del escudo uruguayo: i) la zona oeste de Minas, se destaca la presencia de enjambres de diques básicos, fallamientos subordinados en el Grupo Lavalleja, y los asociados al arrastre dextral de cuarcitas del labio sur de la cuenca Santa Lucía y ii) la zona al sureste de Mariscala, se desarrollan las depresiones sublatitudinales de Aiguá y Mariscala donde aparecen remanentes de rocas efusivas juro-cretácicas afectadas por un sistema de fallas, cuya disposición permiten interpretarlas como un sistema transcurrente. El corredor Santa Lucía-Aiguá-Merín se desarrolló en dirección NE, con bordes controlados por fallas N 70º E sobre imponiéndose a las anisotropías preexistentes bien diferentes de los tres dominios del escudo uruguayo, en particular en el dominio central donde dominan las N 15º E y N 50º E. Finalmente, en relación con este contexto transtensional, se discuten la asignación temporal de algunas unidades litoestratigráficas conglomerádicas y el significado tectónico y económico de la fuerte anomalía gravimétrica de la laguna Merin sobre su extremo oriental.

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          There are new evidences providing a general oblique-extensional kinematics associated with dextral transcurrent displacement within the Santa Lucia-Aiguá-Merin rift-zone in Uruguay, during the Juro-Cretaceous period. It was studied in two particular regions from the Uruguayan Shield's central domain: i) West from Minas's region, with the presence of a basic dyke swarm, some subordinate faults cutting Lavalleja Group, and the dextral dragging of Precambrian quartzites in the southern edge of Santa Lucia Basin, and ii) Southeast from Mariscala's region, where various E-W graben (i.e. Aigua, Mariscala...) show remnants of Juro-Cretaceous volcanic rocks. Their assemblage may provide clues to interpret them as parts of a transcurrent system. Santa Lucia-Aigua-Merin rift developed in NE direction, with border zones controlled by N70ºE strike faults, reworking the preexistent basement anisotropies. These anisotropies are quite different in each domain of Uruguayan Shield (almost 3). In the central domain, N15ºE and N50ºE striking ones are conspicuous. Finally, in this transtensional environment, the age of some conglomeratic units are discussed as well as the tectonic and economic significances from the Laguna Merin strong gravimetric anomaly, that is located in the rift's eastern edge.

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                Journal
                raga
                Revista de la Asociación Geológica Argentina
                Rev. Asoc. Geol. Argent.
                Asociación Geológica Argentina (Buenos Aires )
                1851-8249
                March 2007
                : 62
                : 1
                : 92-104
                Affiliations
                [1 ] Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas Argentina
                [2 ] Universidad de Buenos Aires Argentina
                [3 ] Universidad de La Republica Uruguay
                [4 ] ANCAP Uruguay
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                S0004-48222007000100011
                45c28c58-83c9-4e70-9bd1-5abfa498971b

                http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

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                Self URI (journal page): http://www.scielo.org.ar/scielo.php?script=sci_serial&pid=0004-4822&lng=en
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                GEOLOGY
                GEOSCIENCES, MULTIDISCIPLINARY

                General geosciences,Geology & Mineralogy
                Basaltic dykes,Juro-Cretaceous,Transtension,Kinematics,Santa Lucia-Aiguá-Merin rift-zone,Uruguay,Diques basálticos,Transtensión,Cinemática,Corredor Santa Lucía-Aiguá-Merín

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