Pampia

Pampia^[1] was an ancient microcontinent or terrane that collided with Río de la Plata Craton and Río Apas Craton during the Pampean orogeny of late Proterozoic and early Cambrian.^[2] It was one of the first terranes to be amalgamated to the old cratons of the east, and was followed by the suturing of Cuyania and Chilenia terranes into the young South American Plate.

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^ Casquet, C; Rapela, C.W; Pankhurst, R.J; Baldo, E.G; Galindo, C; Fanning, C.M; Dahlquist, J.A; Saavedra, J (2012). "A history of Proterozoic terranes in southern South America: From Rodinia to Gondwana". Geoscience Frontiers. 3 (2): 137–45. Bibcode:2012GeoFr...3..137C. doi:10.1016/j.gsf.2011.11.004. hdl:1885/52238.
^ Gaucher, Claudio; Bossi, Jorge; Blanco, Gonzalo (2009). "Palaeogeography". Neoproterozoic-Cambrian Tectonics, Global Change and Evolution: A Focus on South Western Gondwana. Developments in Precambrian Geology. Vol. 16. pp. 131–41. doi:10.1016/S0166-2635(09)01609-0. ISBN 978-0-444-53249-7.