Understanding kinematics of intra-arc transcurrent deformation: Paleomagnetic evidence from the Liquiñe-Ofqui fault zone (Chile, 38–41°S)

The Liquiñe-Ofqui fault zone (LOFZ) is a major ~1000 km long dextral shear zone of southern
Chile, likely related to strain partitioning of Nazca Plate oblique convergence with South America. To
understand block rotation pattern along the LOFZ, we paleomagnetically sampled 55 sites (553 samples)
between 38°S and 41°S. We gathered Oligocene to Pleistocene volcanics and Miocene granites at a maximum
distance of 20 km from the LOFZ, and at both sides of it. Rotations with respect to South America, evaluated
for 36 successful sites, show that crust around the LOFZ is fragmented in small blocks, ~1 to 10 km in size.
While some blocks (at both fault edges) undergo very large 150°–170° rotations, others do not rotate, even
adjacent to fault walls. We infer that rotations affected equidimensional blocks, while elongated crust slivers
were translated subparallel to the LOFZ, without rotating. Rotation pattern across the LOFZ is markedly
asymmetric. East of the fault and adjacent to it, rotations are up to 150°–170° clockwise, and fade out ~10 km
east of fault. These data support a quasi-continuous crust kinematics, characterized by small rigid blocks
drag by the underlying ductile crust flow, and imply 120 km of total fault offset. Conversely, crust west of the
LOFZ is cut by seismically active NW-SE sinistral antithetic faults, and yields counterclockwise rotations up to
170° at 8–10 km from LOFZ, besides the unrotated blocks. Further data from the Chile fore arc are needed to
understand block rotation kinematics and plate dynamics west of the LOFZ.

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