Basement-involved blind thrusting in the eastern Cordillera oriental, southern Bolivia: Evidence from cross-sectional balancing, gravimetric and magnetotelluric data

Tectonophysics

Volumn 259, Issue 1-3 SPEC. ISS., 1996, Pages 171-184

  Kley, Jonas ^a,b   Gangui, Alfredo H ^a,c   Krüger, Detlef ^a  

^a FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KARLSRUHE   (Germany)

^c Austral Hospital   (Argentina)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BLIND THRUSTING; CAINOZOIC; GRAVITY SURVEY; MAGNETOTELLURIC SURVEY; THRUST BELT;

BOLIVIA, ANDES, CORDILLERA ORIENTAL;

EID: 0030468896     PISSN: 00401951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0040-1951(95)00067-4     Document Type: Article

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