Sierra Ballena Shear Zone

Shear zones and terranes in Uruguay after Gaucher et al., 2008.[1] Sierra Ballena Shear Zone is marked as "SBSZ". To the west Sarandí del Yí Shear Zone is marked as "SYSZ".

Sierra Ballena Shear Zone or SBSZ is a sinistral strike-slip shear zone running across the Uruguayan Shield in eastern Uruguay and the Brazilian state of Rio Grande do Sul.[2][3] The system was last active in the Precambrian.[2]

References

  1. ↑ Gaucher, C.; Finney, S. C.; Poiré, D. G.; Valencia, V. A.; Grove, M.; Blanco, G.; Pamoukaghlián, K.; Peral, L. G. (2008). "Detrital zircon ages of Neoproterozoic sedimentary successions in Uruguay and Argentina: insights into the geological evolution of the Río de la Plata Craton" (PDF). Precambrian Research. 167 (1): 150–170. doi:10.1016/j.precamres.2008.07.006. Retrieved January 2016. Check date values in: |access-date= (help)
  2. 1 2 The Sierra Ballena Shear Zone in the southernmost Dom Feliciano Belt (Uruguay): evolution, kinematics, and deformation conditions
  3. ↑ Jorge Bossil and Claudio Gaucher. 2003. The Cuchilla Dionisio Terrane, Uruguay: An Allochthonous Block Accreted in the Cambrian to SW-Gondwana. Gondwana Research, V7, No. 3, pp. 661-674


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