Introduction • Stratigraphical evidence supporting the rifting, drifting and collision of the Laurentian Precordillera Terrane of western Argentina • The stratigraphical record of the Argentine Precordillera and its plate-tectonic background • Early Palaeozoic brachiopods and associated shelly faunas from western Gondwana: their bearing on the geodynamic history of the pre-Andean margin • The Argentine Precordillera: its odyssey from the Laurentian Ouachita margin towards the Sierras Pampeanas of Gondwana • Ordovician K-bentonites in the Argentine Precordillera: relations to Gondwana margin evolution • The geochemistry and provenance of Ordovician turbidites in the Argentine Puna • Time constraints in the Early Palaeozoic docking of the Precordillera, central Argentina • A Laurentian? Grenville- age oceanic arc/back-arc terrane in the Sierra de Pie de Palo, western Sierras Pampeanas, Argentina • The Pampean Orogeny of the southern proto-Andes: Cambrian continental collision in the Sierras de Córdoba • Laurentia-Gondwana collision: the origin of the Famatinian-Appalachian orogenic belt (a review) • Structural evolution of the Sierra de San Luis (eastern Sierras Pampeanas, Argentina): implications for the proto-Andean margin of Gondwana • U-Pb, Th-Pb and Ar-Ar geochronology from the southern Sierras Pampeanas, Argentina: implications for the Palaeozoic tectonic evolution of the western Gondwana margin • The Early Palaeozoic magmatic record of the Famatina System: a review • Geology of the Sierra de Fiambalá, northwest Argentina: implications for Early Palaeozoic Andean tectonics • The granitoids of the Sierra de San Luis • The Famatinian magmatic arc in the central Sierras Pampeanas