Lithologies, structure and basement-cover relationships in the schist belt of the Dom Feliciano Belt in Uruguay

Litologias, estrutura e relações embasamento-cobertura na Faixa de Xistos do Cinturão Dom Feliciano no Uruguai

Masquelín, Enrique - Silva Lara, Hernán - Sánchez Bettucci, Leda - Núñez Demarco, Pablo Andrés - Pascual Echeverría, Sofía - Muzio Sauer, Rossana - Peel Canabal, Elena - Scaglia Cortellezzi, Fernando N.

Resumen:

This work is the result of a multiyear effort to use field geology to describe lithologies, to establish contact relationships and to create a sketch of the tectonic evolution of the Meso- to Neoproterozoic metasedimentary successions within the Schist Belt of the Dom Feliciano Belt. This low-grade metamorphic cover rests on the high-grade metamorphic basement of the La China and Las Tetas complexes. This basement is Archean-Paleoproterozoic in age. The Schist Belt is overlapped unconformably by the Barriga Negra formation. The Lavalleja complex and the Barriga Negra formation both deformed together during the D2 deformation event (∼ 570 -540 Ma), but the Barriga Negra only partially recorded the D2 transpressive event, whereas the Lavalleja complex was affected by both the D1 tangential event and the D2 event. Event D1 would have developed a fold nappe with vergence to the south. This hypothesis is supported by different structures: (i) recumbent and upright folds oriented E-W, (ii) subhorizontal mylonitic foliation in marbles (calc-schists), (iii) stretching lineations plunging towards the SW in metaconglomerates of the Las Tetas Complex, and (iv) a reworking of the subhorizontal foliation parallel to the Sarandí del Yí strike-slip shear zone.


Este trabalho resulta de um esforço de vários anos tentando usar a geologia de campo para descrever litologias, estabelecer relações de contato e perfazer a evolução tectônica das sucessões metassedimentares, de idades meso a neoproterozoicas, que foram deformadas dentro da Faixa de Xistos do Cinturão Dom Feliciano. Essas rochas constituem uma cobertura de baixo grau que repousa em cima do embasamento de alto grau metamórfico dos complexos La China e Las Tetas. Esse embasamento é de idade paleoproterozoica-arqueana. A Faixa de Xistos é sotoposta em discordância angular pela formação Barriga Negra. O Complexo Lavalleja e a formação Barriga Negra se deformaram junto durante o evento D2 (~ 570 – 540 Ma), mas a formação Barriga Negra registrou apenas parcialmente o evento transpressivo D2, enquanto o Complexo Lavalleja foi afetado pelos dois eventos (D1 e D2). O evento D1 teria desenvolvido uma dobra – nappe com vergencia para o sul. Essa hipótese é sustentada por diferentes estruturas: (i) dobras recumbentes e dobras retas orientadas E-W, (ii) Foliação subhorizontal milonítica em mármores (calco-xistos); (iii) lineações de estiramento mergulhando para SW em metaconglomerados do Complexo Las Tetas, e (iv) retrabalhamento da foliação subhorizontal, paralelamente à zona de cisalhamento transcorrente Sarandí del Yí


Detalles Bibliográficos
2017
Deformation
Dom Feliciano Belt
Ediacaran
Fold nappe
Tectonic evolution
Inglés
Universidad de la República
COLIBRI
https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12008/26280
Acceso abierto
Licencia Creative Commons Atribución (CC - By 4.0)
Resumen:
Sumario:This work is the result of a multiyear effort to use field geology to describe lithologies, to establish contact relationships and to create a sketch of the tectonic evolution of the Meso- to Neoproterozoic metasedimentary successions within the Schist Belt of the Dom Feliciano Belt. This low-grade metamorphic cover rests on the high-grade metamorphic basement of the La China and Las Tetas complexes. This basement is Archean-Paleoproterozoic in age. The Schist Belt is overlapped unconformably by the Barriga Negra formation. The Lavalleja complex and the Barriga Negra formation both deformed together during the D2 deformation event (∼ 570 -540 Ma), but the Barriga Negra only partially recorded the D2 transpressive event, whereas the Lavalleja complex was affected by both the D1 tangential event and the D2 event. Event D1 would have developed a fold nappe with vergence to the south. This hypothesis is supported by different structures: (i) recumbent and upright folds oriented E-W, (ii) subhorizontal mylonitic foliation in marbles (calc-schists), (iii) stretching lineations plunging towards the SW in metaconglomerates of the Las Tetas Complex, and (iv) a reworking of the subhorizontal foliation parallel to the Sarandí del Yí strike-slip shear zone.