Crustal balance and crustal flux from shortening estimates in the Central Andes

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Jan 2005

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2005e%26psl.230..113h&link_type=abstract

Earth and Planetary Science Letters, Volume 230, Issue 1-2, p. 113-124.

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The Central Andes of South America form the second largest high elevation plateau on earth. Extreme elevations have formed on a noncollisional margin with abundant associated arc magmatism. It has long been thought that the crustal thickness necessary to support Andean topography was not accounted for by known crustal shortening alone. We show that this may in part be due to a two-dimensional treatment of the problem. A three-dimensional analysis of crustal shortening and crustal thickness shows that displacement of material towards the axis of the bend in the Central Andes has added a significant volume of crust not accounted for in previous comparisons. We find that present-day crustal thickness between 12°S and 25°S is accounted for (˜-10% to ˜+3%)with the same shortening estimates, and the same assumed initial crustal thickness as had previously led to the conclusion of a ˜25 35% deficit in shortening relative to volume of crustal material. We suggest that the present-day measured crustal thickness distribution may not match that predicted due to shortening, and substantial redistribution of crust may have occurred by both erosion and deposition at the surface and lower crustal flow in regions of the thermally weakened middle and lower crust.

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