Chile Rise

The Chile Rise or Chile Ridge is an oceanic ridge, a tectonic divergent plate boundary between the Nazca and Antarctic Plates. Its eastern end is the Chile Triple Junction where the Chile Rise is being subducted below the South American Plate in the Peru–Chile Trench.^[1] It runs westward to a triple point south of the Juan Fernández Microplate where it intersects the East Pacific Rise.

References

↑ Russo, R.M.; Vandecar, John C.; Comte, Diana; Mocanu, Victor I.; Gallego, Alejandro; Murdie, Ruth E. (2010). "Subduction of the Chile Ridge: Upper mantle structure and flow". GSA Today (Geological Society of America) 20 (9): 4. doi:10.1130/GSATG61A.1.

Geology of Chile

Formations	Bahía Mansa Metamorphic Complex Lacui Formation Navidad Formation Panguipulli Batholith Patagonian Batholith Santo Domingo Formation

Institutions	CODELCO INACH ONEMI OVDAS SERNAGEOMIN (Andean Geology)

Related lists	Earthquakes Glaciers Lakes Mountains Rivers Volcanoes Fjords, channels, sounds and straits Islands

Mid-ocean ridges

Present	American-Antarctic Central Indian Chile East Pacific Explorer Gakkel Gorda Juan de Fuca Mid-Atlantic Pacific-Antarctic Southeast Indian Southwest Indian

Former	Aegir Alpha Kula-Farallon Pacific-Farallon Pacific-Kula Phoenix

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