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| Renewed uplift of the Central Andes Forearc revealed by coastal evolution during the Quaternary |
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Vincent Regard 1Marianne Saillard 1 |
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| Most of the Pacific coast of the Central Andes, between 15°S and 30°S, displays a wide (a couple of kilometres) planar feature, gently dipping oceanwards and backed by a cliff. This morphology, usually of marine orgin, is called rasa, and argues for a recent and spatially continuous uplift of the margin over the 1,500-km-long coastal region we describe. The cliff foot is found at a similar elevation (~110 m amsl) all over the studied area, with the exception of peninsulas such as the Mejillones Peninsula. The compilation of published chronological data and the extrapolation of re-appraised uplift rates provide evidence for a common cliff foot age of around 400 ka (i.e., Marine Isotopic Stage MIS 11). This, together with other geological constraints, indicates a Quaternary renewal of uplift in the Central Andes forearc after a late Pliocene quiescence or subsidence. |
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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 : | IRD |
| Institut de recherche pour le développement [IRD] | |
| 3 : | Laboratoire de géodynamique des chaines alpines (LGCA) |
| CNRS : UMR5025 – OSUG – INSU – Université de Savoie – Université Joseph Fourier - Grenoble I | |
| 4 : | Morphodynamique continentale et côtière (MCC) |
| CNRS : UMR6143 – INSU – Université de Caen Basse-Normandie – Université de Rouen | |
| 5 : | Departamento de Ciencias Geológicas |
| universidad catolica del Norte | |
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| Domaine | : | Planète et Univers/Sciences de la Terre/Géomorphologie Planète et Univers/Sciences de la Terre/Tectonique Sciences de l'environnement/Milieux et Changements globaux |
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| Andes – Quaternary – Subduction – Rocky Coast – Geomorphology – Marine Terrace |
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| Contributeur : Vincent Regard | |
| Soumis le : Mercredi 16 Juin 2010, 14:06:35 | |
| Dernière modification le : Samedi 19 Juin 2010, 10:11:35 | |