Artículo
Paleomagnetic evidence of earliest Paleocene deformation in Calama (∼22°S), northern Chile: Andean-type or ridge-collision tectonics?
Fecha de publicación:
08/2012
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Pergamon-Elsevier Science Ltd
Revista:
Journal of South American Earth Sciences
ISSN:
0895-9811
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Inglés
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Artículo publicado
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Resumen
A paleomagnetic study from the earliest Paleocene Cerros de Montecristo Quartz Monzonite and its Jurassic to uppermost Cretaceous host rock (northern Chile, ∼22°S) provided high-temperature, high-coercivity magnetizations of dominantly reversed polarity. The remanences of the tilted host rock gave a negative fold-test and are indistinguishable from the remanences found in the pluton, indicating that the uppermost Cretaceous rocks underwent deformation before intrusion of the earliest Paleocene pluton, thus documenting a K-T deformation at the locality. Although this deformation may be another product of typical subduction-related noncollisional tectonics in the Central Andes, an alternative hypothesis, permitted by plate reconstructions, is that the event was associated with collision of an oceanic plate boundary. This latter hypothesis may also provide a context for several other tectonic events from northern Chile to the Patagonian Andes, wherein deformation would the consequence of a southward migrating triple junction between the latest Maastrichtian and Early Eocene.
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Articulos de INSTITUTO DE GEOCIENCIAS BASICAS, APLICADAS Y AMBIENTALES DE BS. AS
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Somoza, Ruben; Tomlinson, A. J.; Caffe, Pablo Jorge; Vilas, Juan Francisco A.; Paleomagnetic evidence of earliest Paleocene deformation in Calama (∼22°S), northern Chile: Andean-type or ridge-collision tectonics?; Pergamon-Elsevier Science Ltd; Journal of South American Earth Sciences; 37; 8-2012; 208-213
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