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Upper Cretaceous intrusives in the Coastal Cordillera near Valdivia: forearc magmatism related to the passage of a triple junction?

Authors :
Mauricio Mella
Daniel Demaiffe
David Quiroz
Jorge Muñoz
Oscar Figueroa
Paul Duhart
Verónica Oliveros
Denisse de la Fuente
Source :
Andean geology v.48 n.1 2021, SciELO Chile, CONICYT Chile, instacron:CONICYT
Publication Year :
2021
Publisher :
Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Valparaiso, 2021.

Abstract

Upper Cretaceous intrusives of limited extent crop out in the Coastal Cordillera near of Valdivia (39°48' S), 100 km west of the main topographic divide of the Andean Cordillera. Given that plutonic rocks of the same age crop out at the same latitudes in the high Andes the coastal intrusives emplaced in a forearc position in the upper plate of a subduction setting. They correspond to hypabyssal intrusives displaying mainly porphyritic texture and lithological variations with microtonalites (minor), porphyritic microgranodiorites (main) and microgranites. They intrude the Upper Paleozoic-Triassic accretionary complex of the Bahia Mansa Metamorphic Complex. These intrusives, that comprise the Chaihuín Pluton and minor stocks of porphyritic felsic rocks, have calc-alkaline affinities with metaluminous and peraluminous character. They are geochemically similar to the contemporaneous main arc-related plutonic rocks of the Gualletué Plutonic Group. The microgranitoids and dacitic rocks from Los Boldos, the low and Loncoche are peculiar because they show an apparently adakitic affinity in Sr/Y and LaN/YbN discriminant diagrams; nevertheless Sr contents of these rocks (<

Details

ISSN :
07187106 and 07187092
Volume :
48
Database :
OpenAIRE
Journal :
Andean Geology
Accession number :
edsair.doi.dedup.....2ff27733b168052a1b2ebe649c84ef68
Full Text :
https://doi.org/10.5027/andgeov48n1-3062