| HAL : hal-00536991, version 1 |
| arXiv : 1011.4040 |
| DOI : 10.1016/j.epsl.2010.09.010 |
| Code IRD Horizon : fdi:010052927 |
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| Earth and Planetary Science Letters 299 (2010) 299-309 |
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| Horizontal subduction zones, convergence velocity and the building of the Andes. |
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| Joseph Martinod 1Laurent Husson 2 |
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| (15/10/2010) |
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| We discuss the relationships between Andean shortening, plate velocities at the trench, and slab geometry beneath South America. Although some correlation exists between the convergence velocity and the westward motion of South America on the one hand, and the shortening of the continental plate on the other hand, plate kinematics neither gives a satisfactory explanation to the Andean segmentation in general, nor explains the development of the Bolivian orocline in Paleogene times. We discuss the Cenozoic history of horizontal slab segments below South America, arguing that they result from the subduction of oceanic plateaus whose effect is to switch the buoyancy of the young subducting plate to positive. We argue that the existence of horizontal slab segments, below the Central Andes during Eocene-Oligocene times, and below Peru and North-Central Chile since Pliocene, resulted (1) in the shortening of the continental plate interiors at a large distance from the trench, (2) in stronger interplate coupling and ultimately, (3) in a decrease of the trenchward velocity of the oceanic plate. Present-day horizontal slab segments may thus explain the diminution of the convergence velocity between the Nazca and South American plates since Late Miocene. |
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| 1 : | Laboratoire des Mécanismes et Transfert en Géologie (LMTG) |
| CNRS : UMR5563 – Observatoire Midi-Pyrénées – Université Paul Sabatier [UPS] - Toulouse III – Institut de recherche pour le développement [IRD] : UMR154 | |
| 2 : | Géosciences Rennes (GR) |
| CNRS : UMR6118 – INSU – Centre Armoricain de Recherches en Environnement – Université de Rennes 1 | |
| 3 : | Dipartimento Scienze Geologiche |
| Universita Roma Tre | |
| 4 : | Centre européen de recherche et d'enseignement de géosciences de l'environnement (CEREGE) |
| CNRS : UMR6635 – Institut de recherche pour le développement [IRD] – INSU – Université de Provence - Aix-Marseille I – Université Paul Cézanne - Aix-Marseille III | |
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| Domaine | : | Planète et Univers/Sciences de la Terre/Tectonique Planète et Univers/Sciences de la Terre/Géophysique Physique/Physique/Géophysique Sciences de l'environnement/Milieux et Changements globaux |
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| Andes – subduction – plate kinematics – shortening – flat-slab – oceanic plateau |
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| Contributeur : Joseph Martinod | |
| Soumis le : Mercredi 17 Novembre 2010, 14:22:06 | |
| Dernière modification le : Mercredi 17 Novembre 2010, 21:14:17 | |