TANGO UPDATES

March 2024:

New publication from the Tectonics group at the University of Arizona, led by graduate student Chance Ronemus. Check it out here.

Ronemus, C.B., Howlett, C.J., DeCelles, P.G., Carrapa, B., George, S.W.M., 2024. The Manantiales Basin, Southern Central Andes (∼32°S), Preserves a Record of Late Eocene–Miocene Episodic Growth of an East‐Vergent Orogenic Wedge. Tectonics 43, e2023TC008100. https://doi.org/10.1029/2023TC008100

Dec 2023:

UArizona PhD students Jim Bradford and Sankha Subhra Mahanti (shown below!) and Prof. Susan Beck presented new TANGO results at the Annual AGU meeting in San Francisco, CA! Below are hyperlinks to the abstracts:

TransANdean Great Orogeny (TANGO)–High-resolution Imaging of the Andean Cordillera from the Mantle to the Surface

Preliminary Earthquake Catalog of the Southern Central Andes (~ 23-24° S) Recorded by the TANGO Seismic Deployment

The Andes, From Slab to Surface Through Large-N, Radial-Receiver Function Analysis, at 24⁰S

Sep-Oct 2023:

UArizona PhD students Chance Ronemus and Caden Howlett presented back-to-back talks at the Annual GSA Connects meeting in Pittsburgh, PA. Howlett presented new thermochronology data at the 18th International Conference on Thermochronology in Riva del Garda, Italy.

Ronemus, C.B., Howlett, C.J., DeCelles, P.G., Carrapa, B., Miocene wedge-top sedimentation adjacent to out-of-sequence thrust faults in the Manantiales Basin, southern central Andes (~32°S), Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs. Vol 55, No. 6, October 2023. doi:10.1130/abs/2023AM-389672.

Howlett, C.J., Ronemus, C.B., Carrapa, B., DeCelles, P.G., Age-elevation relationships from Cerro Mercedario (6720m) record exhumation of the La Ramada massif, high Andes of western Argentina, Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs. Vol 55, No. 6, October 2023. doi:10.1130/abs/2023AM-394540.

Howlett, C.J., Ronemus, C.B., Carrapa, B., DeCelles, P.G., Age-elevation relationships from Cerro Mercedario (6720m) record exhumation of the La Ramada massif, high Andes of western Argentina, 18th International Conference on Thermochronology. Riva del Garda, Italy, September 2023.

UArizona PhD student Emilie Bowman was co-convener of session T162. The Andes from Top to Bottom at GSA Connects in Pittsburgh, PA. Chance Ronemus and Caden Howlett co-convened session T160: Convergent Margin Systems. Friend and TANGO collaborator Andrés Echaurren from CONICET in Mendoza gave an invited talk in their session.

left: Chance Ronemus presenting new findings from the Manantiales Basin in the Andes session co-convened by Emilie Bowman.