The contribution of landslides to the Quaternary evolution of relief is poorly documented in arid contexts. In southern Peru and northern Chile, several massive landslides disrupt the arid western Andean front. The Chuquibamba landslide, located in southern Peru, belongs to this set of large landslides. In this area, the Incapuquio fault system captures the intermittent drainage network and localizes rotational landslides. Seismic activity is significant in this region with recurrent Mw 9 subduction earthquakes; however, none of the latest seismic events have triggered a major landslide. New terrestrial cosmogenic dating of the Chuquibamba landslide provides evidence that the last major gravitational mobilization of these rotational landslide deposits occurred at ~ 102 ka, during the Ouki wet climatic event identified on the Altiplano between 120 and 98 ka. Our results suggest that wet e...

Trabajo presentado en el 8th International Symposium on Andean Geodynamics (ISAG), realizado en Quito-Ecuador, del 24-26 setiembre, 2019. Evento organizado por el Instituto Geofísico, Escuela Politécnica Nacional (IG-EPN) del Ecuador, y el French Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD).

Existe un debate actual sobre el principal factor que controla los procesos de erosión en los Andes occidentales: McPhillips et al., 2014 proponen que la erosión depende fuertemente de la ocurrencia de terremotos mientras que otros estudios, reportan correlaciones positivas entre las variaciones climáticas y la erosión de la cuenca (Carretier et al., 2014; Reber et al., 2017) basadas en dataciones con nucleídos cosmogénicos (10Be). En el sector de Curibaya el deslizamiento Aricota, rellenó el valle y formó un gran dique que dio origen a la laguna Aricota, utilizando nucleídos cosmogénicos (10Be), Delgado et al., (2016) fecharon el deslizamiento (dique) en ~17 ka. Nosotros en este estudio tenemos la oportunidad de comparar (1) la tasa de erosión a partir del volumen de sedimentos acumulados en la laguna desde su formación, y (2) la tasa de denudación a partir de la concentrac...

The central part of the Western Andes holds an exceptional concentration of giant paleolandslides involving very large volumes of rock material (v > km3). While those gravitational slope failures are interpreted consensually as an erosional response to the geodynamic activity of the Andes (relief formation and tectonic activity), the question of their triggering mechanisms remains enigmatic. To clarify the respectiveroles of climatic versus seismic forcing on the Andean landslides, new temporal constraints on paleomovements are essential. Here, we focus on one of those giant slope failures, the Aricota giant rockslide that damned the Locumba valley in southern Peru. We conducted fieldwork, high-resolution DEM analysis and cosmogenic nuclide dating to decipher its development history and failure mechanisms. Our results point to the occurrence of two successive events. A giant failure mobi...

In situ-produced 10Be is one of the most commonly used TCN in quantitative geomorphology due to the fact that its production rate is relatively well constrained in the ubiquitous quartz mineral whose integrity minimizes the possibility of contamination by meteoric 10Be. Easily decontaminated from meteoric 10Be, it is in addition reliably measured using the Accelerator Mass Spectrometry technique for which its detection limit is lower than 104 at.g-1. However, volcanic or mafic areas are generally quartz free, which hamper the routine use of 10Be. In the case of a quartz poor lithology, an alternative possibility is to rely on 10Be - feldspars. Two preliminary studies (Kober et al., 2005 and Blard et al., 2013a) already provided promising results, demonstrating that (1) the decontamination protocol classically applied to quartz (Brown et al., 1991) efficiently removes all the meteoric 10B...