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

↑ 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.
1 2 The Sierra Ballena Shear Zone in the southernmost Dom Feliciano Belt (Uruguay): evolution, kinematics, and deformation conditions
↑ 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

Major South American geological features

Plates	Antarctic Plate Caribbean Plate Cocos Plate Nazca Plate Scotia Plate South American Plate

Cratons and shields	Amazonian Craton Arequipa-Antofalla Craton Atlantic Shield Central Brazilian Shield Guiana Shield Paranapanema Block Río Apa Craton Río de la Plata Craton São Francisco Craton Uruguayan Shield

Faults and shear zones	Atacama Fault Boconó Fault Cochabamba Fault Zone Cordillera Blanca Fault Zone Dolores-Guayaquil Megashear Domeyko Fault El Pilar Fault System El Tigre Fault Liquiñe-Ofqui Fault Zone Magallanes-Fagnano Fault Morón Fault System Oca-Ancón Fault System Pernambuco Fault San Ramón Fault Sarandí del Yí Shear Zone Sierra Ballena Shear Zone Sobral Fault Trans Brazilian Lineament

Rifts and grabens	Aguapeí Aulacogen Amazon Rift Asunción Rift Cuyo Rift Espino Graben Neuquén Rifts Paramirim Aulacogen Salta Rifts

Sedimentary basins	Altiplano Basin Amazon Basin Andean foreland basins Central Brazil Basin Colorado Basin Cuyo Basin Eastern Venezuela Basin Golfo San Jorge Basin Magallanes Basin Malvinas Basin Neuquén Basin Pantanal Basin Paraíba Basin Paraná Basin Salta Basin Solimões Basin

Orogens	Andean Orogen Brasiliano Orogens Cariri Velhos Belt Famatinian Orogen Gondwanide Orogen Juruá Orogen Pampean Orogen San Rafael Orogen Sunsás Orogen Terra Australis Orogen Tilcarian Orogen

Volcanoes and hotspots	Andean Volcanic Belt Ascension hotspot Caribbean large igneous province Central Atlantic magmatic province Fernando hotspot Galápagos hotspot Juan Fernández hotspot Paraná and Etendeka traps San Felix hotspot Trindade hotspot

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