Are the Taitao granites formed due to subduction of the Chile ridge?

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2009

Authors

Anma, Ryo
Armstrong, Richard
Orihashi, Yuji
Ike, Shin-ichi
Shin, Ki-Cheol
Kon, Yoshiaki
Komiya, Tsuyoshi
Ota, Tsutomu
Kagashima, Shin-ichi
Shibuya, Takazo

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Elsevier

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The Taitao granites are distributed around the Late Miocene Taitao ophiolite (5.66 ± 0.33 Ma to 5.19 ± 0.15 Ma) exposed at the western tip of the Taitao peninsula, southern Chile, ~ 50 km southeast from the present day Chile triple junction. In this

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Keywords: emplacement; granite; igneous intrusion; magmatism; Miocene; ophiolite; partial melting; SHRIMP dating; spreading center; subduction; uranium-lead dating; Aisen; Chile; South America; Taitao Peninsula Chile triple junction; Granite; Ophiolite; Ridge subduction; Taitao; U-Pb

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