Gondwanide orogeny

The Gondwanide orogeny was an orogeny active in the Permian that affected parts of Gondwana that are by current geography now located in southern South America, South Africa, Antarctica, Australia and New Guinea.

[1] The zone of deformation in Argentina extends as a belt south and west of the cratonic nucleus of Río de la Plata–Pampia.

[2] The deformation of the orogeny is visible in the Sierra de la Ventana mountains in Argentina and the Cape Fold Belt in South Africa.

[3] The Gondwanide orogeny was widespread across the southern hemisphere during the Late Permian-Early Triassic.

Alexander du Toit described Gondwanide deformation as consisting of asymmetric folding, thrusting and cleavage formation.