SW Ecuador, Northern Andes.
Active margin context with convergent plates (Nazca plate subduction under American continent).
Presence of metabasites and metapelites (Raspas) and ultramafites (El Toro).
Raspas metabasite are HP eclogites, garnet amphibolites and blueschist facies formations.
References
- "HP terranes exhumation in an active margin setting", Ph.D. Thesis, Piercarlo Gabriele, 22 novembre 2002, Université de Lausanne,
http://www.unil.ch/gse/page9506_fr.html.
- Eur. Jour. Mineral (2003): 15(6): 977-989
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