Sierra Ballena Shear Zone

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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. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 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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