Verónica Oliveros Clavijo

• Geóloga, Universidad de Chile (2002).

• Magíster en Ciencias mención Geología, Universidad de Chile (2002).

• Doctor en Ciencias de la Tierra y el Universo, Universidad de Niza - Universidad de Chile (2005)

Geoquímica, Geoquímica Isotópica, Geocronología.

Combino herramientas geológicas de campo con geoquímica, petrología y geoquímica isotópica para entender la evolución de los Andes en su etapa más temprana, a lo largo de todo el margen chileno y también en Argentina y el sur de Perú. Utilizo como herramientas la geoquímica elemental e isotópica de roca total y minerales ígneos y metamórficos y el mapeo geológico para determinar las fuentes y mecanismos de emplazamiento de los magmas andinos, así como gatillantes y condiciones pre-eruptivas del volcanismo andino actual. Me interesa conocer la evolución de los arcos magmáticos y su relación con la tectónica global durante el mesozoico, y su comparación con los ambientes de margen convergente recientes. También trabajo en la aplicación de métodos geocronológicos en alteración hidrotermal y metamorfismo de muy bajo grado; proxies hidrogeoquímicos que permitan trazar el balance hídrico; y uso de herramientas geocientíficas para el monitoreo de soluciones basadas en la naturaleza o el cuidado y gobernanza de bienes comunes socio-naturales.

• Geoquímica.

• Geoquímica Isotópica/Geocronología.

• Exploración Mineral.

• Depósitos Minerales.

• Geología de Campo.

• Geoquímica Isotópica/Geocronología.

• Oceanografía Geológica.

• Geodinámica Andina.

• Seminario Doctoral.

• Propuesta y Gestión de Proyectos de Investigación.

• Geoquímica Isotópica.

• The roots of the early Andean arc in northern Chile: a subduction-zone magmatism factory analysis. Proyecto de Investigación UdeC VRID2024110082, investigadora responsable, 2024.

• Proyecto Fondecyt #124, 2024–2028, coinvestigadora.

• Proyecto Fondecyt #1240981, 2024–2028, coinvestigadora.

• Millennium Institute for Volcanic Risk Research – Ckelar Volcanoes, ANID#ICN2021_038, 2022–2032, investigadora asociada.

• Codesign Labs for climate change: commons governance and care in coastal areas in the south central Chile, ANID #ACT210037, 2021–2024, investigadora asociada.

Cárdenas, Á., Oliveros, V., Salas, P. et al. (2026). Magma hybridization in multilevel plumbing system beneath Lascar volcano (Central Volcanic Zone, Chile). Bulletin of Volcanology, 88, 72.

Rivera-Vidal, R., Arumí, J.L., Parra, V., Stehr, A., Oliveros, V. et al. (2026). Estimating the Seasonal Variations of Multiple Recharge Sources’ Contribution in Mountainous Mediterranean Basins. Hydrological Processes, 40, 370513.

Moral, J.C., Creixell, C., Oliveros, V., Velásquez, R., Tassara, A. y Márquez, A. (2026). Tectono-metamorphic events in the Paleozoic coastal metamorphic complexes of south-Central Chile: the Hualpén-Laraquete segment (36.5°–37.5°S). Journal of the Geological Society.

Díaz-Alvarado, J., Fernández, C., Folguera, A., Creixell, C., Oliveros, V. y Moral, J.C. (2025). A convergence model for the SW Gondwana margin during the late Paleozoic based on the structural analysis of accretionary complexes in northern and south-central Chile. Journal of South American Earth Sciences, 168, 105826.

Creixell, C., Díaz-Alvarado, J., Álvarez, J., Rodríguez, C., Velásquez, R. y Oliveros, V. (2025). Episodic magmatism and segmentation of the Gondwanan arc in Chile (21–38°S): Insights into Carboniferous to early Permian subduction processes and deformation. Journal of South American Earth Sciences, 156, 105421.González, J., Oliveros, V., Lucassen, F. et al. (2025). The Triassic magmatism in southwestern Gondwana: An example of arc batholith construction in a retreating margin. Gondwana Research, 139, 81–103.

Castillo, D., Murillo, I. y Oliveros, V. (2025). Lithofacies architecture within an intra-arc environment: A case study from the Permian-Triassic magmatic arc in the Chilean Frontal Cordillera (30–30.5°S). Andean Geology, 52(1), 1–46.

Oliveros, V., Moreno, P., Flores, L. 2020. Pre-Pliocene Andean Magmatism in Chile. Geoscience Canada, in press.

Salazar, E., Vásquez, P., Vallejos, D., Creixell, C., Oliveros, V., Ducea, M.N. 2019. Stratigraphic and provenance analysis of Triassic units between 28-29°S, northern Chile: implications on the tectonic and paleogeographic evolution of the southwestern margin of Gondwana. Andean Geology 47, doi:http://dx.doi.org/10.5027/andgeoV47n2-3118

Oliveros, V., Vásquez, P., Creixell, C., Lucassen, F., Ducea, M.N., Ciocca, I., González, J., Espinoza, M., Salazar, E., Coloma, F., Kasseman, S.A. 2020. Lithospheric evolution of the Pre- and Early Andean convergent margin, Chile. Gondwana Research, 80, 202-227.

Fernández Paz, L., Bechis, F., Litvak, V.D., Echaurren, A., Encinas, A., González, J., Lucassen, F., Oliveros, V., Valencia, V., Folguera, A. 2019. Constraints on trenchward arc migration and back-arc magmatism in the North Patagonian Andes in the context of Nazca plate rollback. Tectonics. Accepted.

Espinoza, M., Montecino, D., Oliveros, V., Astudillo, N., Vásquez, P., Reyes, R., Celis, C., González, R., Contreras, J., Creixell, C., Martínez, A. 2019. The synrift phase of the early Domeyko Basin (Triassic, northern Chile): Sedimentary, volcanic and tectonic interplay in the evolution of an ancient subduction-related rift basin. Basin Research, 31, 4-32. DOI: 10.1111/bre.12305

Tapia, J., González, R., Townley, B., Oliveros, V., Álvarez, F., Aguilar, G., Menzies, A., Calderón, M. 2018. Geology and geochemistry of the Atacama Desert. Antonie van Leeuwenhoek, 111, 1273-1291. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10482-018-1024-x

Oliveros, V., Folguera, A., Arriagada, C., Bitencourt, M.deF. 2018. South American tectonics: An introduction. Journal of South American Earth Sciences, 84, 1-3. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jsames.2018.01.006

González, J, Oliveros, V., Creixell, C., Velásquez, R., Vásquez, P., Lucassen, F. 2018. The Triassic magmatism and its relation with the Pre-Andean tectonic evolution: geochemical and petrographic constrains from the High Andes of north Central Chile (29°30’ – 30°S). Journal of South American Earth Sciences. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jsames.2017.12.009

Coloma, F., Valin, X., Oliveros, V., Vásquez, P., Creixell, C., Salazar, E., Ducea, M.N. In press. Geochemistry of Permian to Triassic igneous rocks from northern Chile (28º-29º30'S): Implications on the dynamics of the proto-Andean margin. Andean Geology.

Echaurren, A., Oliveros, V., Folguera, A., Ibarra, I., Creixell, C., Lucassen, F. Accepted. Early Andean tectonomagmatic stages in North Patagonia: Insights from field and geochemical data. Journal of the Geological Society

Creixell, C., Oliveros, V., Vásquez, P., Navarro, J., Vallejos, D., Valin, X., Godoy, E., Ducea, M.N. 2016. Geodynamics of Late Carboniferous–Early Permian forearc in north Chile (28°30 -29°30 S). Journal of the Geological Society, 127, 757-772- doi:10.1144/jgs2016-010

Encinas, A., Folguera, A., Oliveros, V., De Girolamo Del Mauro, L., Tapia, F., Riffo, R., Hervé, F., Finger, K.L, Valencia, V.A., Gianni, G., Álvarez, O. 2016. Late Oligocene–Early Miocene submarine volcanism and deep-marine sedimentation in an extensional basin of southern Chile. Implications on the tectonic development of the North Patagonian Andes. GSA Bulletin, 128, 807-823, doi:10.1130/B31303.1

Rossel, P., Oliveros, V., Ducea, M.N., Hernández, L. 2015. Across and along arc geochemical variations in altered volcanic rocks: Evidence from mineral chemistry of Jurassic lavas in northern Chile, and tectonic implications. Lithos, 239, 97-113.

Rossel, P., Oliveros, V., Mescua, J., Tapia, F., Ducea, M.N., Calderón, S., Charrier, R., Hoffman, D. 2014. The Upper Jurassic volcanism of the Río Damas-Tordillo Formation (33°- 35.5°S):Insights on petrogenesis, chronology, provenance and tectonic implications. Andean Geology, 41, 529-557. doi: 10.5027/andgeoV41n3-a03

Rossel, P., Oliveros, V., Ducea, M.N., Charrier, R., Scaillet, S., Retamal, L., Figueroa, O. 2013. The Early Andean subduction system as an analogue to island arcs: evidence from across-arc geochemical variations in northern Chile. Lithos, 179, 211-230. Oliveros, V., Labbé, M., Rossel, P., Charrier, R., Encinas, A. 2012. Late Jurassic paleogeographic evolution of the Andean back-arc basin: new constrains from the Lagunillas Formation, northern Chile (27º30-28º30 S). Journal of South American Earth Sciences, 37, 25-40.

Oliveros. V., Aguirre, L., Morata, D., Simonetti, A., Vergara, M., Belmar, M., Calderón, S. 2008 Geochronology of very low-grade mesozoic andean metabasites. An approach through the K-Ar, 40Ar/39Ar and U-Pb LA-MC-ICP-MS methods. Journal of the Geological Society, 165, 579-584.

Oliveros, V., Tristá, D., Féraud, G., Morata, D., Aguirre, L., Kojima, S. 2008. Time-relationships between volcanism-plutonism-alteration in Cu-stratabound ore deposits: the Michilla district, northern Chile. A 40Ar/39Ar geochronological approach. Minerailum Deposita, 43, 61-78.

Oliveros, V., Morata, D., Aguirre Luis, Féraud G, Fornari M. 2007. Jurassic to Early Cretaceous subduction–related magmatism in the Coastal Cordillera of northern Chile (18º30’–24ºs): geochemistry and petrogenesis. Revista Geológica de Chile, 34, 209-232.

Oliveros, V., Féraud, G., Aguirre, L., Fornari, M. 2006 The Early Andean Magmatic Province (EAMP): 40Ar/39Ar dating on Mesozoic volcanic and plutonic rocks from the Coastal Cordillera, Northern Chile. Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research, 157, 311-330.311-330.

Capítulos de Libros:

Oliveros, V., González, J., Espinoza, M., Vásquez, P., Rossel, P., Creixell, C., Sepúlveda, F., Bastias, F. In press. The early stages of the magmatic arc in the Southern Central Andes”, In: The making of the Chilean and Argentinean Andes (Eds. A. Folguera et al.). Springer.

Parada. M.A., López-Escobar, L., Oliveros, V., Fuentes, F., Morata, D., Calderón, M., Aguirre, L., Féraud, G., Espinoza, F., Moreno, H., Figueroa, O. 2007 Andean magmatism. En: The Geology of Chile (Eds. T Moreno y W. Gibbons), The Geological Society, London, 115-146.