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The link between volcanism and tectonics in the southern volcanic zone
of the Chilean Andes: A review
Jos Cembrano a,, Luis Lara b
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Article history:
Received 7 January 2008
Received in revised form 16 January 2009
Accepted 26 February 2009
Available online 13 March 2009
Keywords:
Southern Andes
Volcanism
Arc tectonics
Liquie-Ofqui fault zone
Dykes
a b s t r a c t
The nature of the interplay between tectonics and volcanism is a major question in continental margin
tectonics. The Southern Andes volcanic zone (SVZ), located at the obliquely convergent NazcaSouth America
plate margin between 33S and 46S, offers a unique opportunity to address this question because of alongstrike changes in crustal thickness, tectonic style and well-constrained long-term and short-term kinematic
history. The complex interaction between tectonic and magmatic processes is evidenced by both the
architecture and geochemical signature of volcanic systems. Main rst-order factors accounting for the
along-strike variations in the nature and composition of volcanism are crustal thickness and the existence of
a major, intra-arc fault system, the LiquieOfqui fault zone (LOFZ). Second order factors include the local
nature of the volcanic arc basement.
Two main categories of volcanotectonic associations have been identied, according to the spatial
distribution and internal organization of individual volcanoes and clusters of volcanoes with respect to both
the overall strike of the volcanic arc and the rst and second-order active/inactive basement faults.
Kinematically-coupled associations, those that are directly related to the current dextral transpressional
tectonic regime, include NE-trending volcanic alignments of stratovolcanoes and/or monogenetic cones;
kinematically uncoupled associations, in which coupling with the current regime is not required, include
stratovolcanoes built on top of ancient reverse and strikeslip faults of the volcanic arc basement and
monogenetic cones lying along master faults of the LOFZ. Whereas mostly primitive magmas are found in the
rst category, more evolved terms can occur genetically associated with the second category. We propose a
simplied, three-dimensional model for the magma plumbing system along and across the SVZ that
integrates kinematically-coupled and kinematically uncoupled volcanotectonic associations within the
framework of rst- and second-order geological and structural constraints.
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1. Introduction
1.1. Statement of the problem
One fundamental problem in continental margin tectonics is the
nature of the interplay between deformation processes and magma
transport through the lithosphere (e.g. Hutton, 1988; Vigneresse, 1999;
Petford et al., 2000). Deformation-induced fault-fracture networks have
been regarded as efcient pathways through which magma is transported, stored and eventually erupted at the earth surface (e.g. Hill, 1977;
Shaw, 1980; Clemens and Mawer, 1992; Petford et al., 2000). Thus, the
state of stress of the lithosphere at the time of magmatism should
somehow control the spatial distribution of plutons, dikes swarms and
volcanic centers (e.g. Nakamura, 1977; Nakamura et al., 1978; Delaney
et al.,1986; Hutton,1988; Takada,1994; Glazner et al.,1999; Acocella et al.,
2007). However, crustal deformation not only plays a signicant role in
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continental magmatic arc, is the contrasting kinematics of the faultfracture networks under which they are transported within the same
magmatic arc. Thus, magmas that migrate under crustal compression/
transpression would be signicantly more evolved (differentiated)
than those that have migrated under upper crustal extension/
transtension. Furthermore, as the Chilean volcanic arc shows a signicant degree of strikeslip deformation, compression and extension
can occur at the same time but in different orientation, both oblique to
the magmatic arc trend.
1.2. The role of tectonics in magma transport through the lithosphere
Most early work regarding the origin of igneous rocks largely
neglected the active role of deformation in the transport of magma.
One notable exception is Cloos (1923), who suggested that magmas
were squeezed upward by regional shortening. This early interpretation anticipated more elaborated models of intrusion within transpressional settings as recently postulated (e.g., De Saint Blanquat et al.,
1998]. Especially for plutonic rocks, the nature and transport of
magma was traditionally viewed mostly from a petrological or geochemical point of view, almost completely separated from tectonics.
Magma was assumed to migrate from the mantle to the upper crust as
buoyant diapirs, by analogy with salt domes (e.g. Daly, 1903; Grout,
1945; Ramberg, 1967). The fact that the most common plan view of
plutons is sub-circular to elliptical was taken as evidence to support
this hypothesis. Later work, however, proved that it is almost
impossible for a granitic diapir to reach the upper crust without
crystallizing and stalling at deeper levels. This is because the country
rock is required to ow around the diapir as it rises (Marsh, 1982).
Over the last two decades, dike propagation, largely controlled by
tectonics, has emerged as a more likely mechanism for magma
transport in the lithosphere, mainly because it is consistent with the
mechanics, nature and rates of geologic processes (e.g. Petford et al.,
2000). These studies have emphasized that the nal pluton shape is
not necessarily indicative of the ascent mechanism but results from
upper crustal emplacement of laccoliths fed by underlying vertical
dikes. Dike propagation is then very common in the upper brittle crust
whereas diapirism may be an important transport process in the lower
ductile crust (e.g. Weinberg, 1996) In summary, with few exceptions
(Paterson and Schmidt, 1999; Schmidt and Paterson, 2000), structural
investigations and analog models have concluded that faults are
closely related to magma transport and emplacement in space and
time in any type of tectonic setting, either strikeslip (Hutton, 1982;
Corti et al., 2005), extensional (Hutton, 1988), transtensional (Guineberteau et al., 1987), transpressive (D'Lemos et al., 1992; De Saint
Blanquat et al., 1998) or compressive (Brown and Solar, 1998; Kalakay
et al., 2001; Galland et al., 2003; Musumeci et al., 2005).
Regarding the interplay between crustal tectonics and volcanism,
several authors have set examples of eruption centers and/or dikes that
were formed in response to regional tectonic stresses in continental
settings (e.g. Muller and Pollard, 1977; Nakamura, 1977; Delaney et al.,
1986; Smith, 1987). For instance, Nakamura (1977) proposed that the
systematic alignments of minor eruptive centers (MEC) and ank
volcanoes (vents) within major stratovolcanoes (SV) in subduction zone
margins can be used as a tool to determine the direction of the maximum
horizontal stress (Hmax), at both local and regional scales. Both ank
crater distribution within individual SV and the elongated distribution of
MEC are believed to represent a natural analog of hydrofracture
experiments resulting from magma overpressuring. In fact, the volcanic
centers are supposed to be the surface expression of vertical feeder dykes
located underneath (Muller and Pollard, 1977; Nakamura, 1977).
More recently, Tibaldi (1995) extended Nakamura's model to
isolated cones or clusters above gently slopes. Morphometric parameters of the pyroclastic cones such as the elongation of their base,
elongation of the craters, or the strike of the two deep depressed
points along the crater rim, are believed to reect the geometry of the
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Sibson (1985, 1987) and specially Sibson et al. (1988) where a critical
reshearing angle is obtained from a relation between normal and
shear stresses and the required magma overpressure.
At shallow levels, arrest of the dikes, volcanic unrest periods and
subsequent eruptive cycles would be controlled by the local stresses,
which nally are a composite of magma pressure around the conduit,
regional stresses and mechanical properties of the host rocks (e.g.,
Gudmundsson, 2006). Numerical modeling on the stress eld around
magma chambers and geothermal systems (Gudmundsson et al.,
2002; Gudmundsson and Phillip, 2006) have quantied the boundary
conditions for uids reach the surface to fed volcanic eruptions.
2. Tectonic, geologic and kinematic framework of the volcanic arc
between 33 and 46S (southern volcanic zone)
The stretch of the Andean range examined here runs from 33S
to 46S, encompassing the whole southern volcanic zone (SVZ).
Its tectonic setting is characterized by slightly dextral-oblique convergence between the Nazca and South American plates at a rate of ca.
79 cm/year that has prevailed for the last 20 Ma (e.g. Pardo-Casas
and Molnar, 1987; Somoza, 1998; Angermann et al., 1999). The active
Chile Ridge collides with the continental margin a the Chile triple
junction, where the Nazca, South American and Antarctic plate meet
with the PeruChile trench, marking the end of the Central Andes
(sensu Gansser, 1973) and the southern volcanic zone (Fig. 1).
Fig. 2 outlines the regional geology of central and southern Chile, as
modied from the Chilean National Geological Survey 2002 map
(SERNAGEOMIN, 2002 and references therein). Regional-scale rock
units are organized into several marginparallel belts, ranging from
paleozoic plutonic and metamorphic rocks in the Coastal range to
mesocenozoic plutonic and volcanosedimentary units in the Main
cordillera. The Central Depression, located in the middle, is characterized by OligoceneRecent volcanosedimentary rocks.
The basement of the volcanic arc between 33 and 37S is made up
of extensive outcrops of MesoCenozoic volcanosedimentary rocks,
only locally intruded by MioPliocene plutons (e.g. Charrier et al.,
2002; Faras, 2007). This setting changes markedly south of 38S,
where recent volcanoes are built directly onto MesoCenozoic
plutonic rocks of the Patagonian Batholith (Fig. 2). Consistently,
calculated cenozoic regional exhumation rates along the main range
show a dramatic increase at 38S, from less than 0,1 mm/year to the
north to more than 1 mm/year to the south (e.g. Glodny et al., 2008).
Furthermore, crustal thickness underneath the volcanic arc decreases
steadily from ca. 50 km at 33S to 35 km at 46S, with
an accompanying decrease in the average altitude of the main
cordillera, from 5000 m to less than 2000 m (Tassara and Yez,
2003) (Figs. 3, 4).
The long-term regional-scale structure of the volcanic arc region
between 33 and 35S is characterized by east-verging marginparallel
folds and thrusts of Cenozoic age, representing the westernmost
expression of the Aconcagua and Malargue foreland fold-and-thrust
belts (e.g. Giambiagi, 2002). Main regional reverse faults affect both
mesozoic and cenozoic volcano-sedimentary units and accommodate
limited amounts of shortening when compared with the Central
Andes of northern Chile.
The Neogene, El Agrio foreland fold-and-thrust belt is developed
between 36 and 38S in the Argentinian foreland (e.g., Folguera et al.,
2004). Recent papers document the active back-arc volcanism coeval
with eastwest compression along the Agrio belt (e.g. Tromen
volcano, Kozlowski et al., 1996; Galland et al., 2007); a similar, current
intra-arc compression is seismically documented for Central Chile
(3334S) (Pardo et al., 2006) (Fig. 3). The volcanic arc region
between 37S and 38S, in contrast, has undergone pleistoceneholocene arc-orthogonal extension, with a small component of dextral
strike slip displacement (Melnick et al. 2006a). Right to the east of this
area is the Antiir-Copahue fault zone, an east-vergent, high-angle,
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Fig. 1. Tectonic setting of the Chilean Andes between 33S and 47S. NazcaSouth America plate convergence occurs at a rate of 66 mm/yr in a N78E direction (Angerman et al., 1999).
Convergence obliquity, dened as the angle between plate convergence and the trench normal is ca. 26 at 40S (e.g. Jarrard, 1986). The Chile triple junction and the Liquie Ofqui
fault system are shown. Some of the most important, WNW-trending lineaments oblique to the volcanic arc also are shown. The different segments of the southern volcanic zone of
the Andes are labeled after Lpez-Escobar et al. (1995).
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Fig. 2. Regional scale geology of the Chilean Andes between 33S and 47S, modied from 1:1.000.000 scale map, Servicio Nacional de Geologa y Minera, Chile and previous compilations by various authors (Cembrano et al., 1996, 2002; Thomson, 2002; Faras, 2007). The present-day volcanic arc, located along the axis of the main cordillera, is built on top of the MesoCenozoic
sedimentary cover north of 38S. To the south, recent volcanoes lie directly on top of a MesoCenozoic plutonic basement of the Patagonian Batholith. Main regional neogene structures between 33 and 38S are the Aconcagua, Malargue and El Agrio foreland fold-and-thrust belts, to the south, in contrast, the main tectonic element is the intra- dextral transpressional Liquie Ofqui fault
system. The most important WNW-trending lineaments that crosscut the volcanic arc are shown with dashed lines. These have been interpreted by several authors as long-lived basement structures reactivated as sinistral-reverse strike-slip faults during arc development (e.g. Cembrano and Moreno, 1994; Lpez-Escobar et al., 1995; Lara et al., 2006a; Melnick et al. 2006a; Lange et al.,
2008).
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Fig. 3. Digital elevation model of the Chilean Andes between 33S and 47S, showing the rst-order morphostructural features: Coastal Cordillera, Central Depresin, Main Cordillera.
The present-day volcanic arc varies in altitude from ca. 6000 masl at 33S to ca. 2000 masl at 46S. A major inection of the trench and continental margin occurs at 3430S (Maipo
orocline). Left panel: available focal mechanisms of shallow crustal earthquakes in the volcanic arc region, suggesting a change from partitioned to non-partitioned dextral strikeslip
deformation south of 3430S (data compiled from the Harvard and NEIC catalogues, Faras et al., (2006), Pardo et al., (2006) and Lange et al., 2008). All earthquakes are of magnitude
5 or more, with the exception of the east-west compressional event at ca. 34S Pardo et al. (2006) and the two strike-slip events at ca. 42S Lange et al., (2008). Right panel: longterm, Quaternary fault-slip data yielding principal stress axes (compiled and modied from Potent and Reuther (2001), (1); Rosenau et al. (2006), (2); Lavenu and Cembrano (1999),
(3); Lara et al., (2006a), (4); and Arancibia et al., (1999), (5).
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Fig. 4. (a) Along-arc front Bouguer gravity-anomaly prole that suggests increasing crustal thickness to the north (gure modied from the original of Hildreth and Moorbath (1988)
that extends between 33 to 37.5S). Grey line shows the Bouguer anomaly along the drainage divide. (b) Basal and summit elevations of volcanic centers along the arc front between
33 and 46S together with average topographic relief. (c) 87Sr/86Sr isotopic ratio versus latitude (also modied from Hildreth and Moorbath, 1988). Data sources other than quoted in
Hildreth and Moorbath (1988) are: Druelle et al., 1983; Davidson et al., 1987; Gerlach et al., 1988; Futa and Stern, 1988; Hickey-Vargas et al., 1989; McMillan et al., 1989; LpezEscobar et al., 1993; Tormey et al., 1995; Hickey-Vargas et al., 1995; Tassara and Yez, 2003. Grey lled circles indicate monogenetic cones above the LiquieOfqui fault zone.
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Fig. 5. Cr versus Rb plot (modied from Pearce, 1982 with Rb instead of Y as a more incompatible element). Mixing and Raleigh fractional crystallization vectors are indicated. Partial
melting was calculated with a non-modal batch-melting model. Parental predictive contents are taken from McDonough et al. (1991). Note the transition from the monogenetic
cones above the LOFZ-master faults related magmas to the more advanced differentiation observed in the most compressive NW-trending domains.
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Fig. 6. Types of volcanotectonic associations proposed for the Southern Andes based on selected examples. Two main categories are identied: (1) kinematically-coupled
associations (b, e, f, g, and h) where the spatial distribution and overall morphology of individual volcanoes and groups of volcanoes are primarily controlled by the present-day
compressional or dextraltranspressional tectonics of the volcanic arc, and compressional tectonics of the back arc, which are in turn responsible for the geometry and kinematics of
second-order structures such as tension cracks, shear factures and volcanic ssures; and (2) kinematically-uncoupled associations (a, c, and d), where the spatial distribution and
overall morphology of individual volcanoes and groups of volcanoes are primarily controlled by the inherited basement structures that underlie the volcanic arc, which may or may
not be reactivated under the present-day dextral transpressional kinematics. Key: VR: Villarica; Q: Quetrupilln; L: Lann; CLV: CarrnLos Venados; OS: Osorno; PT: Puntiagudo; PP:
PlanchnPeteroa; LH: Las Hoyadas; CR: CayutueRaln; AY: Aysn Fjord. Cartoon on the lower right schematically shows the geometry of the different volcanotectonic
associations, as presented above.
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Fig. 7. Cartoon that summarizes the rst- and second-order factors that control volcanotectonic associations in the Southern Andes Volcanic Zone (not to scale). In Central Chile,
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stratovolcanoes are spatially associated with either NE-striking tension cracks or NW-striking basement structures. The most primitive minor eruptive centers of the Southern
Volcanic Zone are those located on top of the NNE-striking master faults of the LOFZ.
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