Concordant late Paleozoic paleomagnetizations from the Atacama Desert: implications for tectonic models of the Chilean Andes

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Oct 1987

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1987e%26psl..85..461j&link_type=abstract

Earth and Planetary Science Letters, Volume 85, Issue 4, p. 461-472.

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Paleomagnetic results are reported from three formations of late Paleozoic age from the northern Chilean Andes of the Atacama Desert. For the first time primary NRM components are resolved for Paleozoic units along the western flank of the central Andes. Pole positions are calculated for the formations, and compared with APW data for cratonic South America. These comparisons reveal that the collecting sites in the northern Domeyko and Almeida Ranges of the central Andes have undergone no paleomagnetically defined rotations or translation with respect to cratonic South America since the time of NRM acquisition, which is likely to have been in the lower parts of the Kiaman Reverse Interval. If growth of the South American lithosphere has involved accretion of exotic microplates they are either likely to be substantially older than units sampled here, or be restricted to more coastal terranes. The results, taken together with other paleomagnetic data from northern Chile and southern Peru which have showed a wide range of discordance in their declinations when compared to each other or APW data, lead to the conclusion that this region of the Andes during the Mesozoic or Cenozoic has not been affected by simple processes of clockwise oroclinal bending from Peru to Chile, nor regionally consistent patterns of block rotations.

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