Cryptic trans-lithospheric fault systems at the western margin of South America: implications for the formation and localization of gold-rich deposit superclusters

D Wiemer, SG Hagemann, N Hayward… - Frontiers in Earth …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
We present a review of frontier research advances in the investigation of cryptic structures
that transect the South American Andes at oblique strike directions. The intersections …

A model for the lithospheric architecture of the Central Andes and the localization of giant porphyry copper deposit clusters

AD Farrar, DR Cooke, JMA Hronsky… - Economic …, 2023 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
In the central Andes, giant porphyry copper deposits of similar ages group into discrete
geographic clusters that are regularly spaced and aligned within orogen-parallel belts. This …

Devonian to Triassic paleobotanical record from Chile: An overview of the micro-and macrofossil record and fossil localities

P Moisan - Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology, 2024 - Elsevier
Abstract Late Paleozoic to early Mesozoic floras are well represented in Chile by several
continental fossiliferous outcrops across the country. The oldest floras are Late Devonian in …

The relationship between inverted normal faults and pure thrusting during the tectonic inversion of the Domeyko Cordillera, northern Chile: Structural and seismic …

C López, C Del Ventisette, M Bonini, D Montanari… - …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
The orogenic growth of the Domeyko Cordillera was induced by a positive tectonic
inversion. In this work, we have validated this interpretation from new field data, which were …

Selective reactivation of inherited fault zones driven by stress field changes: Insights from structural and paleostress analysis of the Pocuro Fault Zone, Southern …

M Taucare, T Roquer, G Heuser, N Pérez-Estay… - Journal of South …, 2022 - Elsevier
This study aims to explain the selective reactivation of normal faults during the Andean
orogeny at the Southern Central Andes western flank. We conducted a structural mapping …

Opposite rotations in the Central Andes Bend: Tectonic scenario compared to other cases of opposite rotations and implications for long-term subduction at continental …

AK Martin - Journal of South American Earth Sciences, 2024 - Elsevier
A review confirms opposite paleomagnetic rotations on the northwest and southeast limbs of
the Central Andes Bend in Peru, Bolivia, northern Chile and Argentina. Counter-clockwise …

Stranger in the nest: On the biostratigraphic relevance of a new record of a traversodontid cynodont in southern Brazil (Candelária Sequence, Upper Triassic)

L Roese-Miron, PH Dotto, TG de Menezes Medina… - Palaeoworld, 2024 - Elsevier
The Várzea do Agudo is an Upper Triassic site of the Candelária Sequence of Southern
Brazil that boasts an extensive fossil record. It is assigned to the Exaeretodon subzone of the …

An assessment of dip-slip versus strike-slip faulting modes along the Patagonian Andes (39°-50° S) and their related orogenic models

RJ Suárez, ME Ramos, C Sue… - International Geology …, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
The compilation of a database of 225 strain/stress tensors (accounting for~ 4000 fault-striae
data pairs) combined with evidence of syntectonic strata, and a seismotectonic appraisal …

Mapping paleoelevations along active continental margins with igneous geochemistry: A case study from South America

B Liu, S Williams, M Seton, G Zhao - Gondwana Research, 2024 - Elsevier
Mountains and mountain ranges, often situated at convergent plate margins, play a pivotal
role in many fields of the Earth, climate, and biological sciences. Reconstructing past …

Andean evolution, orogenic deformation and uplift of the Western Cordillera and Altiplano of southern Peru, northern Bolivia and Chile: Eocene-Oligocene lithospheric …

V Carlotto, G Carlier, P Van Heiningen… - Journal of South …, 2023 - Elsevier
Highlights•The Arequipa rift back-arc basin controlled by three major graben-bounding fault
systems.•They were the favourable places for tectonic inversion, shortening, thickening and …