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The Geology of Chile.

TERESA MORENO and WES GIBBONS, Editors. 424 Pp. Geological Society of London. 2007. Hardcover. ISBN 1-86239-219-6. Hardcover Price Members, £42.50. Other Societies, £51.00, Nonmembers, £85.00. Paperback Price Members, £27.50. Other Societies, £27.50, Nonmembers, £35.00.

New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, Socorro, New Mexico

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More than 70 authors contributed to this English language volume, which handles the very broad geologic settings of Chile in able fashion, with approximately one-half of the text dedicated to the tectonostratigraphic and chronologic development of a country more than 4,000-km long, yet no more than about 200-km wide. Beginning with discussions of Chilean basement complexes and tectonostratigraphy, this book provides a very good general understanding of the geologic setting of the western margin of South America and gives a background on which essentially all other discussions of Chilean geology follow.

The Andean orogen is highlighted by substantial detail and recent investigations concerning Andean magmatism (chapter 4). The authors subdivide Chile’s Andean magmatism into four distinct segments, in addition to Quaternary volcanism (chapter 5). The treatment of both the tectonic and geographic differences in Chilean magmatic activity gives readers an excellent . . . [Full Text of this Article]