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Table of Contents - Special Paper 336

Laurentia-Gondwana Connections before Pangea

Preface		v
1.	Origin and evolution of the Precordillera terrane of western Argentina: A drifted Laurentian orphan R. A. Astini and W. A. Thomas	1
2.	Paleontological constraints on successive paleogeographic positions of Precordillera terrane during the early Paleozoic J. L. Benedetto, T. M. Sánchez, M. G. Carrera, E. D. Brussa, and M. J. Salas	21
3.	Facies and sequences of the Late Cambrian-Early Ordovician carbonates of the Argentine Precordillera: A stratigraphic comparison with Laurentian platforms F. L. Cañas	43
4.	Ordovician western Sierras Pampeanas magmatic belt: Record of Precordillera accretion in Argentina S. Quenardelle and V. A. Ramos	63
5.	Uranium-lead dating of felsic magmatic cycles in the southern Sierras Pampeanas, Argentina: Implications for the tectonic development of the proto-Andean Gondwana margin P. G. Stuart-Smith, R. Miró, J. P. Sims, P. E. Pieters, P. Lyons, A. Camacho, T. Ireland, R. G. Skirrow, and L. P. Black	87
6.	Closing the ocean between the Precordillera terrane and Chilenia: Early Devonian ophiolite emplacement and deformation in the southwest Precordillera J. S. Davis, S. M. Roeske, W. C. McClelland, and L. W. Snee	115
7.	Puncoviscana Formation of northwestern and central Argentina: Passive margin or foreland basin deposit? J. D. Keppie and H. Bahlburg	139
8.	Magmatic sources and tectonic setting of Gondwana margin Ordovician magmas, northern Puna of Argentina and Chile B. L. Coira, S. Mahlburg Kay, B. Peréz, B. Woll, M. Hanning, and P. Flores	145
9.	Paleomagnetic constraints on the evolution of Paleozoic suspect terranes from southern South America A. E. Rapalini, R. A. Astini, and C. M. Conti	171
10.	Pb isotope evidence for Colombia-southern México connections in the Proterozoic J. Ruiz, R. M. Tosdal, P. A. Restrepo, and G. Murillo-Muñetón	183
11.	Middle American Precambrian basement: A missing piece of the reconstructed 1-Ga orogen J. D. Keppie and F. Ortega-Gutiérrez	199
12.	Review of Paleozoic stratigraphy of MＹico and its role in the Gondwana-Laurentia connections J. L. Sánchez-Zavala, E. Centeno-García, and F. Ortega-Gutiírrez	211
13.	Exotic Paleozoic strata of Gondwanan provenance near Ciudad Victoria, Tamaulipas, México J. H. Stewart, R. B. Blodgett, A. J. Boucot, J. L. Carter, and R. López	227
14.	Neoproterozoic-early Paleozoic evolution of Avalonia J. B. Murphy, J. D. Keppie, J. Dostal, and R. D. Nance	253
15.	Odyssey of terranes in the Iapetus and Rheic oceans during the Paleozoic J. D. Keppie and V. A. Ramos	267