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GONDWANA RESEARCH
Volume 80, Issue -, Pages 202-227Publisher
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DOI: 10.1016/j.gr.2019.11.002
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- Fondecyt [1120715]
- Plan Nacional de Geologia of the National Geological and Mining Service (SERNAGEOMIN)
- Universidad de Concepcion [ENLACE 218.040.025-1.0]
- Conicyt [21140774, 21150502]
- US National Science Foundation [EAR 1725002]
- Romanian Executive Agency for Higher Education, Research, Development and Innovation [PN-III-P4-ID-PCE-2016-0127, PN-III-P4-ID-PCCF-2016-0014]
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The proto-Andean and Early Andean evolution of the southwestern Gondwana margin comprises three stages that differ in their magmatic evolution and deformational style: the Gondwana cycle (similar to 330-280 Ma), the Pre-Andean stage (similar to 280-210 Ma) and the Early Andean Cycle (210-100 Ma). These stages have been traditionally interpreted as the upper crustal response to changes in the tectonic setting which include: Cordilleran-style continental arc (Gondwana cycle), orogenic collapse and possibly slab break-off that led to continental rifting and extensive crustal melting (Pre-Andean stage), and subsequent subduction re-initiation in oceanic arc-style context (Early Andean cycle). The petrological and geochemical characteristics of Carboniferous to Jurassic igneous rocks from this region however do not support the described model. Elemental and Sr-Nd-Pb isotopic data of 86 samples, along with a compilation of similar to 1230 samples from the literature suggest that subduction was the most likely process by which the magmatic record was generated. Sub-alkaline affinities, LILE enrichment over HFSE, Nb-Ta troughs, porphyritic textures and hornblende- and biotite-bearing lithologies are present in all studied units, whereas isotopes suggest that magma sources are a mixture of depleted mantle and variable contribution from the continental crust. Even though the aforementioned features are common to all igneous rocks, some changes point to a decline in the contribution of crustal/lithospheric sources to the magmatism with time. Thus, SiO2, La-N/Yb-N and Sr-87/Sr-86(initial) exhibit a systematic decrease from similar to 285 to 150 Ma, whereas the epsilon Nd-initial parameter increases in the same period. These changes were accompanied by the shift from dominant compressional (Carboniferous-Early Permian) to transtentional (Middle Permian-Jurassic) stresses in the upper crust, suggesting that the margin went from advancing to retreating due to Pangea reorganization and break-up. Following a potential flat slab event, slab roll-back may have induced extension in the upper crust and lithospheric loss as a consequence of delamination or thermal erosion. (c) 2019 International Association for Gondwana Research. Published by Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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