Belén Metamorphic Complex

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title: Belén Metamorphic Complex
text: The Belén Metamorphic Complex is a group of metamorphic and igneous rocks that crops out in the western edge of the Altiplano plateau in the interior of northernmost Chile. The rocks of the complex metamorphosed during the Early Paleozoic era but the original protoliths formed in the Proterozoic eon. This make rocks of the Belén Metamorphic Complex the oldest rocks known in Chile. To the west the rocks of the Belén Metamorphic Complex thrust along Chapiquiña-Belén fault over sediments of Cenozoi
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description: Unit of rocks in northern Chile
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date modified: 2023-08-18T08:19:51Z
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