K-Ar ages from Tertiary lavas of the northernmost Chilean Andes |
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Authors: | Dr Cedric Mortimer Dr Edward Farrar Ing Nicolas Saric |
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Institution: | 1. Geology Department, University of Tabriz, Tabriz, Iran 2. Department of Geological Sciences, Queen's University at Kingston, Ontario, Canada 3. Compania Minera Exótica, Calama, Chile
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Abstract: | Radiometric ages for lava flows of northern Chile indicate that a regional Oligocene erosion surface was faulted when the Cordillera de la Costa was uplifted at the end of the Paleogene. Uplift of the coastal mountains caused the longitudinal depression to infil with sediment until aggradation virtually ceased in the Middle Miocene. Ignimbrites of the Rhyolite Formation were deposited in the Pampa del Tamarugal and across the Cordillera de la Costa in the earliest Miocene, whereas volcanoes of the “Andesite” Formation were locally active at least as early as the Middle Miocene. |
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