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Magnetotelluric image of the Patagonian slab window: constraints on upper mantle physical properties and sources of intraplate magmatism

dc.contributor.authorAraya Vargas, Jaime
dc.contributor.authorSanhueza, Jorge
dc.contributor.authorDíaz, Daniel
dc.contributor.authorSegovia, María José
dc.contributor.authorPastén-Araya, Francisco
dc.contributor.authorŚlęzak, Katarzyna
dc.date.accessioned2024-12-06T14:14:08Z
dc.date.available2024-12-06T14:14:08Z
dc.date.issued2024
dc.identifier.urihttp://repositorio.ucm.cl/handle/ucm/5801
dc.description.abstractThe Patagonian slab window (PSW) is a region of the Southamerican subduction zone where the absence of subducted slabs is interpreted, due to the subduction of the Chile Mid-Ocean Ridge at the Chile Triple Junction. Here we report the results of a long-period magnetotelluric (MT) study conducted in two 300 km-long trench-parallel transects crossing the northern boundary of the PSW in the proximal backarc. We modeled the MT data using 3-D inversion, obtaining an electrical resistivity model of the continental crust and upper mantle up to a depth of ∼150 km. Our model shows a heterogeneous resistivity structure in the uppermost mantle, dominated by resistivities >300 Ωm below the array of sites even within the PSW, and some low-resistivity zones (LRZs, <10 Ωm) mainly at the edge of the array. Using petrophysical models, we estimated the mantle temperature, water content, melt fraction, and viscosity based on obtained resistivity values and a preexistent model of P-wave velocity (Vp) at 50 km and 100 km depth. These estimates suggest that the uppermost mantle within the PSW region is heterogeneous and dominated by high-viscosity blocks, compatible with the continental mantle lithosphere or even subducted slabs. Based on relatively hot and low-viscosity zones estimated in the periphery of LRZs, we interpret the presence of asthenospheric mantle in areas where LRZs coincide with relatively low Vp. According to this interpretation, asthenospheric upwelling in the study area at depths ≤150 km would be localized rather than ubiquitous over the interpreted extent for the PSW. Such localized asthenosphere upwelling processes in the past could explain the scattered distribution of Neogene basaltic lavas in the southern Patagonia backarc. The continental crust exhibits LRZs in the upper and lower crust. Remarkably, ensembles of LRZs at different crustal depths within the presumable area of the PSW were found below the General Carrera Lake, and towards the North Patagonian Icefield, likely indicating the presence of hidden intraplate magmatic and/or hydrothermal systems.es_CL
dc.language.isoenes_CL
dc.rightsAtribución-NoComercial-SinDerivadas 3.0 Chile*
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/cl/*
dc.sourceEarth and Planetary Science Letters, 648, 119105es_CL
dc.subjectSlab windowes_CL
dc.subjectMagnetotelluricses_CL
dc.subjectMantle upwellinges_CL
dc.subjectSubduction zoneses_CL
dc.subjectChile triple junctiones_CL
dc.subjectPatagoniaes_CL
dc.titleMagnetotelluric image of the Patagonian slab window: constraints on upper mantle physical properties and sources of intraplate magmatismes_CL
dc.typeArticlees_CL
dc.ucm.facultadFacultad de Ciencias de la Ingenieríaes_CL
dc.ucm.indexacionScopuses_CL
dc.ucm.indexacionIsies_CL
dc.ucm.urisciencedirect.ucm.elogim.com/science/article/pii/S0012821X24005375?via%3Dihubes_CL
dc.ucm.doidoi.org/10.1016/j.epsl.2024.119105es_CL


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