Sarandí del Yí Shear Zone


The Sarandí del Yí Shear Zone is a strike slip shear zone in Uruguay. The shear zone has a NNW-SSE orientation and a dextral relative direction. It runs across the Río de la Plata Craton from the coast east of Montevideo in the south to the town of Sarandí del . Sarandí del Yí Shear Zone shows a relative displacement of and truncates the Uruguayan dyke swarm to the west.