Tectonic implications of a paleomagnetic study of the Sarmiento Ophiolitic Complex, southern Chile
A paleomagnetic study was carried out on the Late Jurassic Sarmiento Ophiolitic Complex (SOC) exposed in the Magallanes fold and thrust belt in the southern Patagonian Andes (southern Chile). This complex, mainly consisting of a thick succession of pillow-lavas, sheeted dikes and gabbros, is a seafl...
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todo:paper_00401951_v452_n1-4_p29_Rapalini2023-10-03T14:50:11Z Tectonic implications of a paleomagnetic study of the Sarmiento Ophiolitic Complex, southern Chile Rapalini, A.E. Calderón, M. Singer, S. Hervé, F. Cordani, U. Ophiolite Orocline Paleomagnetism Patagonia Remagnetization South America basin evolution demagnetization fold and thrust belt Jurassic-Cretaceous boundary magnetic declination magnetostratigraphy ophiolite paleomagnetism remanent magnetization tectonic reconstruction tectonophysics Andes Argentina Chile Magallanes Patagonia South America A paleomagnetic study was carried out on the Late Jurassic Sarmiento Ophiolitic Complex (SOC) exposed in the Magallanes fold and thrust belt in the southern Patagonian Andes (southern Chile). This complex, mainly consisting of a thick succession of pillow-lavas, sheeted dikes and gabbros, is a seafloor remnant of the Late Jurassic to Early Cretaceous Rocas Verdes basin that developed along the south-western margin of South America. Stepwise thermal and alternating field demagnetization permitted the isolation of a post-folding characteristic remanence, apparently carried by fine grain (SD?) magnetite, both in the pillow-lavas and dikes. The mean "in situ" direction for the SOC is Dec: 286.9°, Inc: - 58.5°, α95: 6.9°, N: 11 (sites). Rock magnetic properties, petrography and whole-rock K-Ar ages in the same rocks are interpreted as evidence of correlation between remanence acquisition and a greenschist facies metamorphic overprint that must have occurred during latest stages or after closure and tectonic inversion of the basin in the Late Cretaceous. The mean remanence direction is anomalous relative to the expected Late Cretaceous direction from stable South America. Particularly, a declination anomaly over 50° is suggestively similar to paleomagnetically interpreted counter clockwise rotations found in thrust slices of the Jurassic El Quemado Fm. located over 100 km north of the study area in Argentina. Nevertheless, a significant ccw rotation of the whole SOC is difficult to reconcile with geologic evidence and paleogeographic models that suggest a narrow back-arc basin sub-parallel to the continental margin. A rigid-body 30° westward tilting of the SOC block around a horizontal axis trending NNW, is considered a much simpler explanation, being consistent with geologic evidence. This may have occurred as a consequence of inverse reactivation of old normal faults, which limit both the SOC exposures and the Cordillera Sarmiento to the East. The age of tilting is unknown but it must postdate remanence acquisition in the Late Cretaceous. Two major orogenic events of the southern Patagonian Andes, in the Eocene (ca. 42 Ma) and Middle Miocene (ca. 12 Ma), respectively, could have caused the proposed tilting. © 2008 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved. JOUR info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.5/ar http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12110/paper_00401951_v452_n1-4_p29_Rapalini |
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Ophiolite Orocline Paleomagnetism Patagonia Remagnetization South America basin evolution demagnetization fold and thrust belt Jurassic-Cretaceous boundary magnetic declination magnetostratigraphy ophiolite paleomagnetism remanent magnetization tectonic reconstruction tectonophysics Andes Argentina Chile Magallanes Patagonia South America |
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Ophiolite Orocline Paleomagnetism Patagonia Remagnetization South America basin evolution demagnetization fold and thrust belt Jurassic-Cretaceous boundary magnetic declination magnetostratigraphy ophiolite paleomagnetism remanent magnetization tectonic reconstruction tectonophysics Andes Argentina Chile Magallanes Patagonia South America Rapalini, A.E. Calderón, M. Singer, S. Hervé, F. Cordani, U. Tectonic implications of a paleomagnetic study of the Sarmiento Ophiolitic Complex, southern Chile |
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Ophiolite Orocline Paleomagnetism Patagonia Remagnetization South America basin evolution demagnetization fold and thrust belt Jurassic-Cretaceous boundary magnetic declination magnetostratigraphy ophiolite paleomagnetism remanent magnetization tectonic reconstruction tectonophysics Andes Argentina Chile Magallanes Patagonia South America |
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A paleomagnetic study was carried out on the Late Jurassic Sarmiento Ophiolitic Complex (SOC) exposed in the Magallanes fold and thrust belt in the southern Patagonian Andes (southern Chile). This complex, mainly consisting of a thick succession of pillow-lavas, sheeted dikes and gabbros, is a seafloor remnant of the Late Jurassic to Early Cretaceous Rocas Verdes basin that developed along the south-western margin of South America. Stepwise thermal and alternating field demagnetization permitted the isolation of a post-folding characteristic remanence, apparently carried by fine grain (SD?) magnetite, both in the pillow-lavas and dikes. The mean "in situ" direction for the SOC is Dec: 286.9°, Inc: - 58.5°, α95: 6.9°, N: 11 (sites). Rock magnetic properties, petrography and whole-rock K-Ar ages in the same rocks are interpreted as evidence of correlation between remanence acquisition and a greenschist facies metamorphic overprint that must have occurred during latest stages or after closure and tectonic inversion of the basin in the Late Cretaceous. The mean remanence direction is anomalous relative to the expected Late Cretaceous direction from stable South America. Particularly, a declination anomaly over 50° is suggestively similar to paleomagnetically interpreted counter clockwise rotations found in thrust slices of the Jurassic El Quemado Fm. located over 100 km north of the study area in Argentina. Nevertheless, a significant ccw rotation of the whole SOC is difficult to reconcile with geologic evidence and paleogeographic models that suggest a narrow back-arc basin sub-parallel to the continental margin. A rigid-body 30° westward tilting of the SOC block around a horizontal axis trending NNW, is considered a much simpler explanation, being consistent with geologic evidence. This may have occurred as a consequence of inverse reactivation of old normal faults, which limit both the SOC exposures and the Cordillera Sarmiento to the East. The age of tilting is unknown but it must postdate remanence acquisition in the Late Cretaceous. Two major orogenic events of the southern Patagonian Andes, in the Eocene (ca. 42 Ma) and Middle Miocene (ca. 12 Ma), respectively, could have caused the proposed tilting. © 2008 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved. |
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Rapalini, A.E. Calderón, M. Singer, S. Hervé, F. Cordani, U. |
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Rapalini, A.E. Calderón, M. Singer, S. Hervé, F. Cordani, U. |
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Rapalini, A.E. |
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Tectonic implications of a paleomagnetic study of the Sarmiento Ophiolitic Complex, southern Chile |
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Tectonic implications of a paleomagnetic study of the Sarmiento Ophiolitic Complex, southern Chile |
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Tectonic implications of a paleomagnetic study of the Sarmiento Ophiolitic Complex, southern Chile |
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Tectonic implications of a paleomagnetic study of the Sarmiento Ophiolitic Complex, southern Chile |
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tectonic implications of a paleomagnetic study of the sarmiento ophiolitic complex, southern chile |
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