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Geodynamic and Climatic Forcing on Late‐Cenozoic Exhumation of the Southern Patagonian Andes (Fitz Roy and Torres del Paine massifs)

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Muller,  Veleda A. P.
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Sue,  Christian
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Valla,  Pierre G.
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Sternai,  Pietro
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Simon‐Labric,  Thibaud
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Gautheron,  Cécile
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Cuffey,  Kurt M.
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Grujic,  Djordje
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Bernet,  Matthias
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Martinod,  Joseph
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Ghiglione,  Matias C.
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Reiners,  Peter
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Willett,  Chelsea
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Shuster,  David
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Herman,  Frédéric
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Baumgartner,  Lukas
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Braun,  Jean
4.7 Earth Surface Process Modelling, 4.0 Geosystems, Departments, GFZ Publication Database, Deutsches GeoForschungsZentrum;

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Muller, V. A. P., Sue, C., Valla, P. G., Sternai, P., Simon‐Labric, T., Gautheron, C., Cuffey, K. M., Grujic, D., Bernet, M., Martinod, J., Ghiglione, M. C., Reiners, P., Willett, C., Shuster, D., Herman, F., Baumgartner, L., Braun, J. (2024): Geodynamic and Climatic Forcing on Late‐Cenozoic Exhumation of the Southern Patagonian Andes (Fitz Roy and Torres del Paine massifs). - Tectonics, 43, 7, e2023TC007914.
https://doi.org/10.1029/2023TC007914


Cite as: https://gfzpublic.gfz-potsdam.de/pubman/item/item_5027388
Abstract
High-relief glacial valleys shape the modern topography of the Southern Patagonian Andes, but their formation remains poorly understood. Two Miocene plutonic complexes in the Andean retroarc, the Fitz Roy (49°S) and Torres del Paine (51°S) massifs, were emplaced between 16.9–16.4 Ma and 12.6–12.4 Ma, respectively. Subduction of oceanic ridge segments initiated ca. 16 Ma at 54°S, leading to northward opening of a slab window with associated mantle upwelling. The onset of major glaciations caused drastic topographic changes since ca. 7 Ma. To constrain the respective contributions of tectonic-mantle dynamics and fluvio-glacial erosion to rock exhumation and landscape evolution, we perform inverse thermal modeling of a new data set of zircon and apatite (U-Th)/He from the two massifs, complemented by apatite 4He/3He data for Torres del Paine. Our results show rapid rock exhumation recorded only in the Fitz Roy massif between 10 and 8 Ma, which we ascribe to local mantle upwelling forcing surface uplift and intensified erosion around 49°S. Both massifs record a pulse of rock exhumation between 7 and 4 Ma, which we interpret as enhanced erosion during the beginning of Patagonian glaciations. After a period of erosional and tectonic quiescence in the Pliocene, increased rock exhumation since 3–2 Ma is interpreted as the result of alpine glacial valley carving promoted by reinforced glacial-interglacial cycles. This study highlights that glacial erosion was the main driver to rock exhumation in the Patagonian retroarc since 7 Ma, but that mantle upwelling might be a driving force to rock exhumation as well.