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Constantino Mpodozis

Constantino Mpodozis

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Earth Science
Chile
2026

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Earth Science

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41
Citations
9872
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National Ranking
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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Earth Science in Chile Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Earth Science in Chile Leader Award
  • 1985 - Fellow of John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation
  • GSA Honorary Fellow Award, The Geological Society of America
  • GSA Honorary Fellow Award, The Geological Society of America

Overview

Constantino Mpodozis is affiliated with the University of Chile in Chile and has contributed extensively to Earth and Planetary Sciences, with a particular focus on Geophysics and associated subfields such as Artificial Intelligence, Atmospheric Science, Earth-Surface Processes, and Paleontology.

The research topics addressed in their work include:

  • Geological and Geochemical Analysis
  • Earthquake and Tectonic Studies
  • Geochemistry and Geologic Mapping
  • Geology and Paleoclimatology Research
  • High-pressure Geophysics and Materials
  • Geological Formations and Processes
  • Seismology and Earthquake Studies

Frequent coauthors in their research include:

  • Héctor Pizarro
  • Sonia Rousse
  • Farhad Bouzari
  • Thomas Bissig
  • Michel Grégoire

Frequent publication venues are varied, reflecting the interdisciplinary nature of their work, and include:

  • Mineralium Deposita
  • Basin Research
  • Seismological Research Letters
  • Journal of Geochemical Exploration
  • Tectonics

Some of the recent papers authored or co-authored by Constantino Mpodozis are:

  • Apatite (U-Th)/He thermochronology and Re-Os ages in the Altar region, Central Andes (31°30'S), Main Cordillera of San Juan, Argentina: implications of rapid exhumation in the porphyry Cu (Au) metal endowment and regional tectonics, 2020, Mineralium Deposita
  • From rift to foreland basin: A case example from the Magallanes-Austral basin, southernmost Andes, 2022, Basin Research
  • An Earthquake Early Warning System for Northern Chile Based on ElarmS-3, 2022, Seismological Research Letters
  • Use of porphyry indicator zircons (PIZs) in the sedimentary record as an exploration tool for covered porphyry copper deposits in the Atacama Desert, Chile, 2023, Journal of Geochemical Exploration
  • Boundary Effects of Orogenic Plateaus in the Evolution of the Stress Field: The Southern Puna Study Case (26°30'-27°30'S), 2024, Tectonics

Throughout their career, Mpodozis has received recognition including the Fellow of John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation award in 1985 and the Geological Society of America's GSA Honorary Fellow Award.

Best Publications

  • The Andes of Chile and Argentina

    Constantino Mpodozis;Victor Ramos

  • Tectonic and magmatic evolution of the Andes of northern Argentina and Chile

    Beatríz Coira;John Davidson;Constantino Mpodozis;Victor Ramos

  • Paleozoic terranes of the central Argentine-Chilean Andes

    V. A. Ramos;T. E. Jordan;R. W. Allmendinger;C. Mpodozis

  • Central Andean Ore Deposits Linked to Evolving Shallow Subduction Systems and Thickening Crust

    Suzanne Mahlburg Kay;Constantino Mpodozis

  • Magmatism as a probe to the Neogene shallowing of the Nazca plate beneath the modern Chilean flat-slab

    Suzanne Mahlburg Kay;Constantino Mpodozis

  • Late Paleozoic to Jurassic silicic magmatism at the Gondwana margin: Analogy to the Middle Proterozoic in North America?

    Suzanne Mahlburg Kay;Victor A. Ramos;Constantino Mpodozis;Patricia Sruoga

  • Extension and basin formation in the southern Andes caused by increased convergence rate: A mid-Cenozoic trigger for the Andes

    Teresa E. Jordan;W. Matthew Burns;Ricardo Veiga;Francisco Pángaro

  • Foreland shortening and crustal balancing in the Andes at 30°S latitude

    R. W. Allmendinger;D. Figueroa;D. Snyder;J. Beer

  • Magma source variations for mid–late Tertiary magmatic rocks associated with a shallowing subduction zone and a thickening crust in the central Andes (28 to 33°S)

    Suzanne Mahlburg Kay;Constantino Mpodozis;Victor A. Ramos;Francisco Munizaga

  • Late Paleozoic to Triassic evolution of the Gondwana margin: Evidence from Chilean Frontal Cordilleran batholiths (28°S to 31°S)

    Constantino Mpodozis;Suzanne Mahlburg Kay

  • Neogene Magmatism, Tectonism, and Mineral Deposits of the Central Ande (22° to 33° S Latitude)

    Suzanne Mahlburg Kay;Constantino Mpodozis;Beatriz Coira

  • Probing the evolving Andean Lithosphere: Mid-Late Tertiary magmatism in Chile (29°–30°30′S) over the modern zone of subhorizontal subduction

    S. Mahlburg Kay;V. Maksaev;R. Moscoso;C. Mpodozis

  • Late Mesozoic to Paleogene stratigraphy of the Salar de Atacama Basin, Antofagasta, Northern Chile: Implications for the tectonic evolution of the Central Andes

    Constantino Mpodozis;César Arriagada;Matilde Basso;Pierrick Roperch

  • Pliocene near-trench magmatism in southern Chile: A possible manifestation of ridge collision

    Randall D. Forsythe;Eric P. Nelson;Michael J. Carr;Margaret E. Kaeding

  • Paleogene building of the Bolivian Orocline: Tectonic restoration of the central Andes in 2‐D map view

    César Arriagada;Pierrick Roperch;Pierrick Roperch;Constantino Mpodozis;Peter Cobbold

  • Tertiary andean magmatism in Chile and Argentina between 28°S and 33°S: Correlation of magmatic chemistry with a changing Benioff zone

    S.Mahlburg Kay;V. Maksaev;R. Moscoso;C. Mpodozis

  • Continental underthrusting and obduction during the Cretaceous closure of the Rocas Verdes rift basin, Cordillera Darwin, Patagonian Andes

    Keith Klepeis;Paul Betka;Paul Betka;Geoffrey Clarke;Mark Fanning

  • Tectónica jurásica en Argentina y Chile: extensión, subducción oblicua, rifting, deriva y colisiones?

    Constantino Mpodozis;Victor A. Ramos

  • El Salvador, Chile Porphyry Copper Deposit Revisited: Geologic and Geochronologic Framework

    Paula Cornejo;Richard M. Tosdal;Constantino Mpodozis;Andrew J. Tomlinson

  • Cenozoic subsurface stratigraphy and structure of the Salar de Atacama Basin, northern Chile

    T.E. Jordan;C. Mpodozis;N. Muñoz;N. Blanco

  • Provincias magmaticas acidas y evolucion tectonica de Gondwana: Andes chilenos (28-31°S)

    Constantino Mpodozis;Suzanne Mahlburg Kay

Frequent Co-Authors

Suzanne Mahlburg Kay
Suzanne Mahlburg Kay Cornell University
Pierrick Roperch
Pierrick Roperch University of Rennes
Victor A. Ramos
Victor A. Ramos University of Buenos Aires
Richard W. Allmendinger
Richard W. Allmendinger Cornell University
Peter R. Cobbold
Peter R. Cobbold University of Rennes
Teresa E. Jordan
Teresa E. Jordan Cornell University
Francisco Hervé
Francisco Hervé Andrés Bello University
Diego Morata
Diego Morata University of Chile
Gérard Hérail
Gérard Hérail Institut de Recherche pour le Développement
Sébastien Carretier
Sébastien Carretier Federal University of Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées

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