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dc.creatorGans, Christine R.
dc.creatorBeck, Susan L.
dc.creatorZandt, George
dc.creatorGilbert, Hersh J.
dc.creatorAlvarado, Patricia Mónica
dc.creatorAnderson, Megan L.
dc.creatorLinkimer Abarca, Lepolt
dc.date.accessioned2019-06-10T19:19:07Z
dc.date.available2019-06-10T19:19:07Z
dc.date.issued2011
dc.identifier.citationhttps://academic.oup.com/gji/article/186/1/45/700671
dc.identifier.issn1365-246X
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10669/77413
dc.description.abstractThe Pampean flat slab of central Chile and Argentina (30◦–32◦S) has strongly influenced Cenozoic tectonics in western Argentina, which contains both the thick-skinned, basementcored uplifts of the Sierras Pampeanas and the thin-skinned Andean Precordillera fold and thrust belt. In this region of South America, the Nazca Plate is subducting nearly horizontally beneath the South American Plate at ∼100 km depth. To gain a better understanding of the deeper structure of this region, including the transition from flat to ‘normal’ subduction to the south, three IRIS-PASSCAL arrays of broad-band seismic stations have been deployed in central Argentina. Using the dense SIEMBRA array, combined with the broader CHARGE and ESP arrays, the flat slab is imaged for the first time in 3-D detail using receiver function (RF) analysis. A distinct pair of RF arrivals consisting of a negative pulse that marks the top of the oceanic crust, followed by a positive pulse, which indicates the base of the oceanic crust, can be used to map the slab’s structure. Depths to Moho and oceanic crustal thicknesses estimated from RF results provide new, more detailed regional maps. An improved depth to continental Moho map shows depths of more than 70 km in the main Cordillera and ∼50 km in the western Sierras Pampeanas, that shallow to ∼35 km in the eastern Sierras Pampeanas. Depth to Moho contours roughly follow terrane boundaries. Offshore, the hotspot seamount chain of the Juan Fernandez Ridge (JFR) is thought to create overthickened oceanic crust, providing a ´ mechanism for flat slab subduction. By comparing synthetic RFs, based on various structures, to the observed RF signal we determine that the thickness of the oceanic crust at the top of the slab averages at least ∼13–19 km, supporting the idea of a moderately overthickened crust to provide the additional buoyancy for the slab to remain flat. The overthickened region is broader than the area directly aligned with the path of the JFR, however, and indicates, along with the slab earthquake locations, that the flat slab area is wider than the JFR volcanic chain observed in the offshore bathymetry. Further, RFs indicate that the subducted oceanic crust in the region directly along the path of the subducted ridge is broken by trench-parallel faults. One explanation for these faults is that they are older structures within the oceanic crust that were created when the slab subducted. Alternatively, it is possible that faults formed recently from tectonic underplating caused by increased interplate coupling in the flat slab regiones_ES
dc.description.sponsorshipNational Science Foundation/[EAR-0552316]/NSF/Estados Unidoses_ES
dc.description.sponsorshipNational Science Foundation/[EAR-0510966]/NSF/Estados Unidoses_ES
dc.description.sponsorshipNational Science Foundation/[EAR-0738935]/NSF/Estados Unidoses_ES
dc.description.sponsorshipNational Science Foundation/[EAR-0739001]/NSF/Estados Unidoses_ES
dc.description.sponsorshipFondo para la Investigación Científica y Tecnológica/[PICT06–0122]/FONCYT/Argentinaes_ES
dc.language.isoen_USes_ES
dc.rightsCC0 1.0 Universal*
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/*
dc.sourceGeophysical Journal International; Vol. 86(1)es_ES
dc.subjectSeismicity and tectonicses_ES
dc.subjectBody waveses_ES
dc.subjectContinental marginses_ES
dc.subjectConvergentes_ES
dc.subjectDynamics of lithosphere and mantlees_ES
dc.subjectCrustal structurees_ES
dc.subjectSouth Americaes_ES
dc.subjectGeologíaes_ES
dc.titleContinental and oceanic crustal structure of the Pampean flat slab region, western Argentina, using receiver function analysis: New high-resolution resultses_ES
dc.typeartículo original
dc.identifier.doi10.1111/j.1365-246X.2011.05023.x
dc.description.procedenceUCR::Vicerrectoría de Docencia::Ciencias Básicas::Facultad de Ciencias::Escuela Centroamericana de Geologíaes_ES


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