Physics
Scientific paper
Oct 2005
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2005e%26psl.239...18r&link_type=abstract
Earth and Planetary Science Letters, Volume 239, Issue 1-2, p. 18-32.
Physics
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Scientific paper
A large number of ore deposits that formed in the Peruvian Andes during the Miocene (15 5 Ma) are related to the subduction of the Nazca plate beneath the South American plate. Here we show that the spatial and temporal distribution of these deposits correspond with the arrival of relatively buoyant topographic anomalies, namely the Nazca Ridge in central Peru and the now-consumed Inca Plateau in northern Peru, at the subduction zone. Plate reconstruction shows a rapid metallogenic response to the arrival of the topographic anomalies at the subduction trench. This is indicated by clusters of ore deposits situated within the proximity of the laterally migrating zones of ridge subduction. It is accordingly suggested that tectonic changes associated with impingement of the aseismic ridge into the subduction zone may trigger the formation of ore deposits in metallogenically fertile suprasubduction environments.
Betts Peter G.
Duboz Cecile
Giles David
Rosenbaum Gideon
Saxon Mark
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