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IMPACT OF THE SUBDUCTION OF THE CARNEGIE RIDGE ON THE ECUADORIAN SHELF AND SLOPE BASINS DURING THE LAST 1MA

Jean-Noël Proust
François Michaud
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Jean-Yves Collot
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The subduction of the Nazca Plate below the South American Plate shows the subduction of aseismic ridges of different origins and morphologies. One of them is the Carnegie Ridge (400km wide, 2km high) produced by the relationship between the Galapagos Hotspot and the Galapagos Spreading Center. The ages and the effects of the Carnegie Ridge subduction on the Ecuadorian margin are still a matter of debate. Newly acquired offshore data complementing the onshore record help to highlight part of this history. The goal of this study is to describe the last 1Ma sedimentary record of Ecuadorian continental shelf to improve our understanding of the impact of the Carnegie ridge subduction on sea floor and shoreline morphologies. For this aim, we acquired high-resolution (50-450Hz frequency) multichannel (72 channels) and single channel (Sparker) seismic data, piston cores, sediment profiles (3.5khz) and high-resolution multibeam bathymetry, during the ATACAMES cruise of the RV L’Atalante, in 2012. In the offshore, we identified two types of Quaternary basins: the platform basins located at northern limit of the Carnegie Ridge, and the slope basins located along the margin in front of Carnegie Ridge subduction. All of them exhibit three major angular unconformities, which encompass some minor unconformities that limit transgressive-regressive sequences (T-R se- quences), which correlate to 100 to 40kyrs Milankovitch cycles. The E-W (dip) seismic profiles, perpendicular to the coastline, show that these angular unconformities mark the progressive mi- gration of successive depocenters in a landward direction. This landward stepping started by 1.4 Ma in agreement with the age postulated by some author for the beginning of the Carnegie ridge subduction. The highly subsiding platform basins bordering the northern side of the Carnegie Ridge are bounded by a set of regional faults, which includes the Jama fault zone. The subsidence of these basins might have accompanied the relative movement between the EW convergence of the Nazca Plate and the NE dextral escape tectonic along the Jama Faults of the North Andean Block
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Carlos Martillo, Jean-Noël Proust, François Michaud, Jean-Yves Collot. IMPACT OF THE SUBDUCTION OF THE CARNEGIE RIDGE ON THE ECUADORIAN SHELF AND SLOPE BASINS DURING THE LAST 1MA. Association des Sédimentologistes Français. 15ème congrès français de sédimentologie, Association des Sédimentologistes Français, Oct 2015, Chambéry, France. pp.279. ⟨hal-01252235⟩
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