[1] Some of the plutons were emplaced in a context of crustal thickening related to the San Rafael orogeny.
As Pangaea broke up at the end of the Paleozoic, ocean crust material was subducted under the eastern and western continental plates.
Volcanic melts from this oceanic crustal material rose through the mantle and embedded themselves in the overlying continental crust.
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