High precision U/Pb zircon dating of the Chaltén Plutonic Complex (Cerro Fitz Roy, Patagonia) and its relationship to arc migration in the southernmost Andes

Tectonics

Volumn 31, Issue 4, 2012, Pages

  De Arellano, Cristobal Ramírez ^a,b   Putlitz, Benita ^a   Müntener, Othmar ^a   Ovtcharova, Maria ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

^b SERVICIO NACIONAL DE GEOLOGÍA Y MINERÍA   (Chile)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EROSION; GEOCHEMISTRY; SILICATE MINERALS; TECTONICS;

BACK-ARC; CAUSAL RELATIONS; CHILE TRIPLE JUNCTIONS; EARLY MIOCENE; FLAT SLABS; GEOCHEMICAL DATA; GRANITIC ROCKS; HIGH-PRECISION; MAGMATIC ACTIVITY; MAGMATIC ARCS; MAGMATISMS; NAZCA PLATE; NEO GENES; PATAGONIA; SUBDUCTION EROSION; U/PB ZIRCON DATING;

TUNGSTEN COMPOUNDS;

ARC-CONTINENT COLLISION; BACKARC BASIN; BATHOLITH; CALC ALKALINE ROCK; MIOCENE; NAZCA PLATE; NEOGENE; SLAB; SUBDUCTION; URANIUM-LEAD DATING; ZIRCON;

CHILE; MAGALLANES; PATAGONIA; TORRES DEL PAINE NATIONAL PARK;

EID: 84864556088     PISSN: 02787407     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2011TC003048     Document Type: Article

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