Mejillones Peninsula

Mejillones Peninsula (Spanish: península de Mejillones) protrudes from the coast of northern Chile north of Antofagasta and south of the port of Mejillones.

The

half graben basins. The uplift that the peninsula had in the Pliocene and Pleistocene has been attributed to subcrustal accretion in the subduction system.^[3]

References

^ Casquet, C.; Hervé, F.; Pankhurst, R.J.; Baldo, E.; Calderón, M.; Fanning, C.M.; Rapela, C.W.; Dahlquist, J. (2014). "The Mejillonia suspect terrane (Northern Chile): Late Triassic fast burial and metamorphism of sediments in a magmatic arc environment extending into the Early Jurassic". Gondwana Research. 25: 1272–1286.
^ Niemeyer, Hans; González, Gabriel; Martínez-De Los Ríos, Edmundo (1996). "Evolución tectónica cenozoica del margen continental activo de Antofagasta, norte de Chile". Revista Geológica de Chile (in Spanish). 23 (2): 165–186.
^ Cantalamessa, Gino; Di Celma, Claudio; Ragaini, Luca; Valleri, Gigliola; Landini, Walter (2005). "Neogene stratigraphic architecture and tectonic evolution of the Mejillones Peninsula (northern Chile) based on a new 1:50,000 geological map" (PDF). Extended abstracts. 6th International Symposium on Andean Geodynamics. Barcelona. pp. 142–145.

23°17′S 70°31′W / 23.29°S 70.51°W / -23.29; -70.51

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[1] Casquet, C.; Hervé, F.; Pankhurst, R.J.; Baldo, E.; Calderón, M.; Fanning, C.M.; Rapela, C.W.; Dahlquist, J. (2014). "The Mejillonia suspect terrane (Northern Chile): Late Triassic fast burial and metamorphism of sediments in a magmatic arc environment extending into the Early Jurassic". Gondwana Research. 25: 1272–1286.

[Niemetal1996-2] Niemeyer, Hans; González, Gabriel; Martínez-De Los Ríos, Edmundo (1996). "Evolución tectónica cenozoica del margen continental activo de Antofagasta, norte de Chile". Revista Geológica de Chile (in Spanish). 23 (2): 165–186.

[3] Cantalamessa, Gino; Di Celma, Claudio; Ragaini, Luca; Valleri, Gigliola; Landini, Walter (2005). "Neogene stratigraphic architecture and tectonic evolution of the Mejillones Peninsula (northern Chile) based on a new 1:50,000 geological map" (PDF). Extended abstracts. 6th International Symposium on Andean Geodynamics. Barcelona. pp. 142–145.

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