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Servicio Nacional de Geología y Minería
2012
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- Paleomagnetism and geochemistry from the Upper Cretaceous Tres Picos Prieto locality (43°S), Patagonian Plateau Basalts Claudia Beatriz Zaffarana Silvia Leonor Lagorio Rubén Somoza Ciencias de la Tierra Argentina Geochemistry Paleomagnetism Late Cretaceous Patagonian Plateau Basaltic Province A paleomagnetic study on nine samples from lavas from the Upper Cretaceous Tres Picos Prieto locality (43°50'S and 70°3'W), Patagonian Plateau Basaltic Province, revealed that a ca. 300 m thick pile of basalts accumulated during three discrete (i.e., temporally separated) volcanic episodes. The chemistry of these lavas shows characteristics compatible with both subduction and intraplate magmatism, with the former having a more important contribution in the younger lavas. Overall, we interpret these rocks to be transitional basalts generated in a supra-subduction environment. The Late Cretaceous to Cenozoic Patagonian Plateau Basaltic Province crops out from eastern Patagonia to the cordillera, and their genesis have been associated with different tectonic processes, even for spatially separated rocks of the same age. Considering that the development of the magmatic province is contemporary with the stage of westward drift of South America, we propose that magma generation and upwelling due to rapidly shearing asthenosphere inducing circulatory flow associated to asperities in the lithosphere-asthenosphere interface (shear-driven upwelling) can be evaluated as a further potential mechanism to account for many outcrops of these backarc to intraplate lavas. 2012 artículo científico 0718-7092 https://www.redalyc.org/articulo.oa?id=173922203003 en http://www.redalyc.org/revista.oa?id=1739 Andean Geology application/pdf Servicio Nacional de Geología y Minería Andean Geology (Chile) Num.1 Vol.39