Víctor Alberto Ramos

Víctor Ramos
Nationality Argentine
Fields Tectonostratigraphy, Tectonics, Paleogeography, Structural geology
Institutions University of Buenos Aires
Alma mater University of Buenos Aires
Known for Contributions to the geology of South America
Notable awards Premio México de Ciencia y Tecnología (2013)

Víctor Alberto Ramos (b. 1945) is an Argentine geologist who has contributed to the paleogeography and plate tectonics of South America. He has been a member of the Chilean Academy of Science since 2001[1] and won in 2013 the Premio México de Ciencia y Tecnología.[2]

Ramos was the first to recognize the existence of Chilenia and the former sea that separated it from the rest of South America (then part of Gondwana). At the time of the discovery in the 1980s it was considered to be speculative.[3] In a 1988 conference in Chile the discovery of Chilenia was not well received and a payador at the conference made ridicule of him.[4] As the existence of Chilenia was recognized the discovery made him later member of the Chilean Academy of Sciences.[3]

Together with other researchers Ramos has proposed to change the age of the Jurassic-Cretaceous boundary from 145 Ma to 140 Ma making the Jurassic longer. This proposal derives from a 2014 study based on biostratigraphy and radiometric dating of ash in the Vaca Muerta Formation in Neuquén Basin, Argentina.[5] In Ramos words the study would serve as a "first step" toward formally changing the age in the International Union of Geological Sciences.[6]

Ramos has proposed that the Patagonian landmass originated as an allochtonous terrane that separated from Antarctica and docked in South America 250 to 270 Ma in the Permian era.[7] A 2014 study by Robert John Pankhurst and coworkers reject the idea of a far-travelled Patagonia claiming it is likely of parautochtonous origin (nearby origin).[8]

Víctor Ramos has been a visiting professor at:

References

  1. ↑ Miembros correspondientes extranjeros
  2. ↑ Geólogo argentino Víctor Ramos gana el Premio México de Ciencia y Tecnología
  3. 1 2 Jaramillo, Jessica. "Entrevista al Dr. Víctor Alberto Ramos, Premio México Ciencia y Tecnología 2013" (in Spanish). Esto no fue bien recibido por la comunidad científica que lo consideró especulativo en su momento. Sin embargo, 25 años después, Ramos fue nombrado miembro de la Academia Chilena de Ciencias, precisamente por ese hallazgo..
  4. ↑ "Desde la Ciencia I: Capítulo 1: Víctor Ramos". Youtube (in Spanish). 2012. Retrieved January 18, 2016.
  5. ↑ Vennari, Verónica V.; Lescano, Marina; Naipauer, Maximiliano; Aguirre-Urreta, Beatriz; Concheyro, Andrea; Schaltegger, Urs; Armstrong, Richard; Pimentel, Marcio; Ramos, Victor A. (2014). "New constraints on the Jurassic–Cretaceous boundary in the High Andes using high-precision U–Pb data". Gondwana Research 26: 374–385. Retrieved 16 January 2016.
  6. ↑ Jaramillo, Jessica. "Entrevista al Dr. Víctor Alberto Ramos, Premio México Ciencia y Tecnología 2013" (in Spanish). Si logramos publicar esos nuevos resultados, sería el primer paso para cambiar formalmente la edad del Jurásico-Cretácico. A partir de ahí, la Unión Internacional de la Ciencias Geológicas y la Comisión Internacional de Estratigrafía certificaría o no, depende de los resultados, ese cambio.
  7. ↑ Jaramillo, Jessica. "Entrevista al Dr. Víctor Alberto Ramos, Premio México Ciencia y Tecnología 2013" (in Spanish). Incluso ahora continúa la discusión sobre el origen de la Patagonia, la cual lleva más de veinte años sin lograr un consenso entre la comunidad científica. Lo que propone el grupo de investigación en el que trabaja el geólogo es que la Patagonia se originó en el continente Antártico, para después separarse y formar parte de Gondwana, alrededor de 250 a 270 millones de años.
  8. ↑ Pankhurst, R.J.; Rapela, C.W.; López de Luchi, M.G.; Rapalini, A.E.; Fanning, C.M.; Galindo, C. (2014). "The Gondwana connections of northern Patagonia". Journal of the Geological Society, London 171: 313–328.
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