Tertiary Magmatic Evolution of the Maricunga Mineral Belt in Chile
Tertiary Magmatic Evolution of the Maricunga Mineral Belt in Chile
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DOI:
10.1080/00206819409465506
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发表时间:
1994-12
影响因子:
2.6
通讯作者:
S. Kay;C. Mpodozis;A. Tittler;P. Cornejo
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作者:
S. Kay;C. Mpodozis;A. Tittler;P. Cornejo
Late Oligocene-Early Miocene volcanic activity along the magmatic front of the south Central Andes in Northern Chile was associated with the formation of epithermal gold-silver deposits in the Maricunga mineral belt (28° S to 26° S). Magmatic activity began at approximately 26 Ma and lasted until ∼ 6 Ma, when the volcanic front migrated eastward. The evolution of the centers within the belt reflects crustal thickening associated with the dramatic tectonic changes in the Central Andes that occurred as the subducting Nazca plate changed shape and caused modifications in the overlying crust and lithospheric mantle. Among these changes were the cessation of volcanism in the “flat-slab” to the south and the uplift of the Puna plateau to the east. Within this setting, Maricunga-belt magmatism can be viewed in five magmatic-tectonic episodes. The first was a Late-Oligocene to Early-Miocene (26 to 20 Ma) episode, during which volcanic complexes erupted over a moderately dipping subduction zone through a ∼ 45-km-t...