Correlations between Nazca/Farallon Plate kinematics and forearc basin evolution in Ecuador

Tectonics - Tập 8 Số 4 - Trang 769-790 - 1989
M. C. Daly

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The Tertiary evolution of the forearc basins of Ecuador shows a close correlation between the changing convergence rate of the Farallon, and later Nazca, oceanic plates and continental South America. The correlation occurs during the subduction of a relatively young slab and, in the Late Miocene, onset of the subduction of the Carnegie aseismic ridge. The Ecuador forearc basins lie on a basement of oceanic crust known as the Pinon terrane. The accretion of this terrance occurred in the Paleocene as the leading edge of the Farallon plate, the Macuchi island arc, collided with South America. In the Middle Eocene this forearc terrane was the site of major pull‐apart basin formation and turbiditic sedimentation, coincident with a phase of very rapid convergence between chron 21 and chron 13 (48–37 Ma). This deformation was bounded by the trench and a major dextral strike‐slip fault zone and resulted in the northward translation of the forearc with respect to continental South America. During the Oligocene a phase of extension normal to the trend of the active margin occurred, coincident with a phase of relatively slow convergence (chron 13 to chron 6, 37–20 Ma). This extension was followed in the Middle Miocene by inversion of most of the forearc basins, coincident with a return to relatively fast convergence from chron 6 (20 Ma) to the present day. Subduction of the Carnegie aseismic ridge occurred during this period (circa 8 Ma to present) and may have enhanced the compressive event. Further, northward translation of the forearc silver accompanied this later deformation. The relationships outlined for the forearc may be modeled in terms of a dynamic orogenic wedge which responds directly to changes in convergence rate at the subduction zone. The convergence rate appears to be an important control on the coupling between the downgoing slab and overriding continental plate.

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