North Patagonian Batholith

The North Patagonian Batholith (Spanish: Batolito Nor-Patagónico) is a series of igneous plutons in the Patagonian Andes of Argentina and Chile.

Geology

The Northern Patagonian Batholith was formed in the Mesozoic Era and Cenozoic Era. It is made up of a collection of individual plutons made up of granodiorite, tonalite and diorite among other rocks.

Most plutons of the North Patagonian Batholith are of Cretaceous Period to the Miocene age of the Neogene Period (135 Ma to 25-15 Ma), during the Mesozoic Era. Late Miocene to early Pliocene (10 to 5 Ma) leucogranites were also intruded. The Tertiary intrusions are centered on the strike-slip Liquine-Ofqui fault zone and include some gabbro bodies.^[1]

See also

• Oligocene South America

References

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Geology of Chile

Terranes

• Arequipa-Antofalla
• Chaitenia
• Chilenia
• Chiloé
• Cuyania
• Fitz Roy
• Madre de Dios
• Mejillonia
• Patagonia

Sedimentary
formations
and groups

Cenozoic	Neogene Abanico Fm. Angostura Fm. Ayacara Fm. Bahía Inglesa Fm. Caldera Beds Caleta Godoy Fm. Caleta Herradura Fm. Campanario Fm. Chaicayán Gp. Cheuquemó Fm. Cholchol Fm. Chucal Fm. Cola de Zorro Fm. Coquimbo Fm. Cura-Mallín Gp. Farellones Fm. La Cascada Fm. Lacui Fm. La Montaña Fm. La Portada Fm. Lauca Fm. Malleco Fm. Mininco Fm. Navidad Fm. Oxaya Fm. Parga Fm. Puduhuapi Fm. Pupunahue Beds Quebrada Macusa Fm. Ranquil Fm. Río Frías Fm. San Pedro Beds Santo Domingo Fm. Temuco Fm. Traiguén Fm. Trapa-Trapa Fm. Tubul Fm. Vargas Fm. Paleogene Abanico Fm. Azapa Fm. Caleta Chonos Fm. Cheuquemó Fm. Cura-Mallín Gp. La Cascada Fm. Lebu Gp. Loreto Fm. Lupica Fm. Oxaya Fm. Parga Fm. Purilactis Gp. Pupunahue Beds Temuco Fm. Vargas Fm.
Mesozoic	Cretaceous Baños del Flaco Fm. Cerro Colorado Fm. Chacarilla Fm. Chañarcillo Gp. Coihaique Gp. Divisadero Gp. Dorotea Fm. Hornitos Fm. La Liga Fm. Ñirehuao Fm. Punta del Cobre Fm. Purilactis Gp. Quiriquina Fm. Viñita Fm. Way Gp. Zapata Fm. Jurassic Chacarilla Fm. Coihaique Gp. Ibáñez Fm. La Liga Fm. La Negra Fm. Nacientes del Biobío Fm. Nacientes del Teno Fm. Pan de Azúcar Fm. Tobífera Fm. Triassic Canto del Agua Fm. Choiyoi Gp. Panguipulli Fm. Santa Juana Fm. Tralcán Fm.
Paleozoic	Llano de Chocolate Beds

Batholiths

• Coastal central Chile
• Elqui-Limarí
• Futrono-Riñihue
• North Patagonian
• Panguipulli
• South Patagonian
• Vicuña Mackenna

Metamorphic
complexes

• Bahía Mansa
• Belén
• Chañaral
• Choapa
• Chonos
• Cordillera Darwin
• Eastern Andes
• Mejillones
• Puerto Edén
• Punta de Choros
• Quebrada del Carrizo
• Trafún
• Tierra del Fuego

Faults

• Atacama Fault
• Biobío-Aluminé Fault
• Cachet Fault
• Domeyko Fault
• El Arrayán Fault
• Futrono Fault
• Gastre Fault
• Lanalhue Fault
• Liquiñe-Ofqui Fault
• Magallanes-Fagnano Fault
• Mocha-Villarrica Fault
• Pichilemu Fault
• Reigolil-Pirihueico Fault
• San Ramón Fault
• Valeriano Fault

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