The Arauco Peninsula (Spanish: península de Arauco), is a
peninsula
A peninsula (; ) is a landform that extends from a mainland and is surrounded by water on most, but not all of its borders. A peninsula is also sometimes defined as a piece of land bordered by water on three of its sides. Peninsulas exist on a ...
in
Southern Chile located in the homonymous
Arauco Province. It projects northwest into the
Pacific Ocean
The Pacific Ocean is the largest and deepest of Earth's five oceanic divisions. It extends from the Arctic Ocean in the north to the Southern Ocean (or, depending on definition, to Antarctica) in the south, and is bounded by the conti ...
. The peninsula is located west of
Cordillera de Nahuelbuta. Geologically it is a
forearc
Forearc is a plate tectonic term referring to a region between an oceanic trench, also known as a subduction zone, and the associated volcanic arc. Forearc regions are present along a convergent margins and eponymously form 'in front of' the v ...
high.
[Daniel Melnick, Bodo Bookhagen, Manfred R. Strecker,
y Helmut P. Echtler. 2009]
Segmentation of megathrust rupture zones from fore-arc deformation patterns over hundreds to millions of years, Arauco peninsula, Chile
''Journal of Geophysical Research
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'', Vol. 114.
See also
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Arauco Basin
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Ranquil Formation
The Ranquil Formation ( es, Formación Ranquil) is a Miocene and Pliocene sedimentary formation located in Arauco Province in south–central Chile, including outcrops in Mocha Island. The formation has its greatest thicknesses in the south-west ...
References
Peninsulas of Chile
Landforms of Biobío Region
Coasts of Biobío Region
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