Mobility of South America’s transcontinental drainage divide and shrinkage of the Paraná river basin linked to lithologic and geodynamic controls

Abstract The South American Transcontinental Drainage Divide (TDD) is roughly oriented NE-SW from its Atlantic termination in SE Brazil to its NW termination in the limits between the southwestern edges of the Amazon Craton and the Andean Foreland. Based on a weak spatial coincidence with 90 − 70 Ma...

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Main Authors: Caio Crelier, Adriana Zumba, Daniel Peifer, Pedro Val
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Portfolio 2025-01-01
Series:Scientific Reports
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-025-87470-1