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- Title
Origin of Late Triassic Granitoids of the Coastal Cordillera of Southern Central Chile (34°–37°S): Multi‐Isotopic Evidence of Slab Tearing Effects on Pre‐Andean Magmagenesis.
- Authors
Rossel, Pablo; Gianni, Guido M.; Reinoso, Valeria; Fanning, C. Mark; Ducea, Mihai N.; Muñoz, Tamara; Salvat, Daniela
- Abstract
The Coastal Cordillera of Central Chile (34°–37°S) holds a series of Late Triassic granitoids classically interpreted as early Andean subduction‐related magmatism based on their arc‐like geochemical signature. Here, we present geochemical, isotopic, and geochronological data and a tomotectonic analysis that challenge this idea indicating a local interruption of the normal subduction process likely associated with a slab‐tearing event. Our results suggest that the source of the magmas is related to melting of asthenospheric mantle and crustal rocks of a metasedimentary Paleozoic complex. We suggest that partial melting of these sources was triggered by a slab tear‐related asthenosphere upwelling producing high‐silica S/I‐ and S‐Type granites of the Constitución and Hualpén areas, and anorogenic A‐Type granitoids in Cobquecura area. Also, partial melting of a metasomatized asthenospheric mantle plus continental crust that experienced previous high‐temperature hydrothermal alteration would have generated high‐silica magmas with low δ18O, high Pb, CHUR‐like 87Sr/86Sr, and 143Nd/144Nd ratios that originated La Estrella Granite. Our results offer an alternative explanation for the existence of subtle magmatic arc‐like geochemical signatures in the study area and support a segmentation of the active margin during the Late Triassic. The widespread upper‐plate magmatic record of slab‐tearing, spanning the Coastal Cordillera of Central Chile to the intraplate Neuquén basin in Argentina, and the lower mantle record of a slab gap, detected in ours and previous tomotectonic analyses, make the Late Triassic slab‐tearing event in southwestern Pangea the most robustly constrained pre‐Cenozoic slab tear process so far. Key Points: The Late Triassic granitoids of Southern‐Central Chile were emplaced from 220 to 210 MaS, S/I, and A‐type granites characterize Late Triassic magmatismSlab‐tearing was likely the driver for granite generation in Southern‐Central Chile
- Publication
Tectonics, 2023, Vol 42, Issue 2, p1
- ISSN
0278-7407
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1029/2022TC007354