dc.creatorSchilling, Manuel Enrique
dc.creatorCarlson, Richard Walter
dc.creatorTassara, Andrés
dc.creatorConceição, Rommulo Vieira
dc.creatorBertotto, Gustavo Walter
dc.creatorVásquez Navarro, Manuel
dc.creatorMuñoz Olguín, Daniel
dc.creatorJalowitzki, Tiago
dc.creatorGervasoni, Fernanda
dc.creatorMorata Céspedes, Diego
dc.date.accessioned2018-03-26T18:36:20Z
dc.date.available2018-03-26T18:36:20Z
dc.date.created2018-03-26T18:36:20Z
dc.date.issued2017-06
dc.identifierPrecambrian Research 294 (2017) 15–32
dc.identifier10.1016/j.precamres.2017.03.008
dc.identifierhttps://repositorio.uchile.cl/handle/2250/147007
dc.description.abstractWe present mineral chemistry and whole rock major, trace, and platinum group element (PGE) concentrations, and Re-Os isotope data for eighteen mantle xenoliths carried to the surface of southern Patagonia (45 degrees-52 degrees S) by Paleocene to Pleistocene alkaline basalts in seven localities scattered widely across southern South America. The new data along with those previously published show that peridotites derived from the lithospheric mantle of the Deseado Massif (DM), southern Patagonia, have compositions indicative of higher degrees of partial melt extraction compared to those from surrounding regions. Re-depletion model ages (T-RD) of mantle xenoliths from the DM (n = 20) range from 0.5 to 2.1 Ga, with an average of 1.5 Ga. In contrast, samples from the surrounding areas (n = 39) have a wider range of Re-depletion ages from 0.0 to 2.5 Ga, with an average of 1.0 Ga. Similar geochemical characteristics are recognized between the lithospheric mantle section of the DM and that beneath East Griqualand (similar to 1.1 Ga), south-eastern Africa, which is related to the Proterozoic Namaqua-Natal Province. The Re-Os systematics of the mantle xenoliths are indicative of Meso to Paleoproterozoic ages for partial melting and stabilization processes of the lithospheric mantle of southern Patagonia, which are considerably older than the crystallization ages obtained for the scarce basement rocks of Patagonia (< 0.6 Ga). In addition, published elastic thickness (T-e) estimates of southern South America show maximum values on the submerged continental region located between the DM and the Malvinas/Falkland Islands, where Grenville-age metamorphic rocks are exposed. These geochemical and geophysical results suggest that southern Patagonia and the Malvinas/Falkland Islands and plateau constitute an integrated and relatively rigid continental block formed mainly during the Meso to Paleoproterozoic as part of the supercontinent Rodinia. To the north, the formation of the North Patagonian Massif (NPM) seems to be contemporaneous with that of the DM. Nevertheless, its ancient lithospheric mantle and lower crust appear to have been widely eroded and replaced by relatively young convecting mantle, possibly during the Carboniferous collision between the DM and the NPM. The differences between the DM and NPM lithosphere histories apparently controlled the subsequent formation and distribution of Jurassic epithermal Au-Ag deposits.
dc.languageen
dc.publisherElsevier
dc.rightshttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/cl/
dc.rightsAttribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Chile
dc.sourcePrecambrian Research
dc.subjectPatagonia
dc.subjectMantle xenoliths
dc.subjectOs isotopes
dc.subjectProterozoic
dc.subjectRodinia
dc.titleThe origin of Patagonia revealed by Re-Os systematics of mantle xenoliths
dc.typeArtículo de revista


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