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Continental transform fault between the Scotia Plate and the South American Plate
The Magallanes–Fagnano Fault (Spanish: Falla Fagnano–Magallanes) is a continental
transform fault.
[1] The fault marks a
transform boundary between the
Scotia Plate and the
South American Plate, cutting across
continental crust.
[2] It runs under the
Strait of Magellan's western arm,
Almirantazgo Sound and
Fagnano Lake.
It has been suggested that the Magallanes-Fagnano Fault is a reactivated
suture of pre-
Jurassic age separating the
basement of two
terranes.
[2]
References
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^ Lodolo, Emanuele; Menichetti, Marco; Bartole, Roberto;
Ben-Avraham, Zvi; Tassone, Alejandro; Lippai, Horacio (2003).
"Magallanes-Fagnano continental transform fault (Tierra del Fuego, southernmost South America)". Tectonics. 22 (6): 1076.
Bibcode:
2003Tecto..22.1076L.
doi:
10.1029/2003TC001500.
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Hervé, F.; Fanning, C.M.;
Pankhurst, R.J.;
Mpodozis, C.; Klepeis, K.; Calderón, M.; Thomson, S.N. (2010).
"Detrital zircon SHRIMP U–Pb age study of the Cordillera Darwin Metamorphic Complex of Tierra del Fuego: sedimentary sources and implications for the evolution of the Pacific margin of Gondwana" (PDF). Journal of the Geological Society, London. 167 (3): 555–568.
Bibcode:
2010JGSoc.167..555H.
doi:
10.1144/0016-76492009-124.
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