Chile Triple Junction

The Chile Triple Junction (or Chile Margin Triple Junction) is a geologic triple junction located on the seafloor of the Pacific Ocean off Taitao and Tres Montes Peninsula on the southern coast of Chile. Here three tectonic plates meet: the South American Plate, the Nazca Plate, and the Antarctic Plate. This triple junction is unusual in that it consists of a mid-oceanic ridge, the Chile Rise, being subducted under the South American Plate at the Peru–Chile Trench.

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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

Triple junctions

Triple Trench	Boso Triple Junction

Triple Ridge	Afar Triple Junction Azores Triple Junction Galapagos Triple Junction Bouvet Triple Junction Rivera Triple Junction Rodrigues Triple Point Tongareva triple junction

Triple Fault	Karlıova Triple Junction Mendocino Triple Junction

Trench Trench Ridge	Chile Triple Junction

Fault Fault Trench	Kamchatka-Aleutian Triple Junction

Ridge Fault Fault	Queen Charlotte Triple Junction

Ridge Ridge Fault	Macquarie Triple Junction

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