The Precordilleran fault system of Chuquicamata, Northern Chile: Evidence for reversals along arc-parallel strike-slip faults

Tectonophysics

Volumn 259, Issue 1-3 SPEC. ISS., 1996, Pages 213-228

  Reutter, Klaus J ^a   Scheuber, Ekkehard ^a   Chong, Guillermo ^b  

^a FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSIDAD CATÓLICA DEL NORTE   (Chile)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRETACEOUS; FAULT SYSTEM; MAGMATIC ARC; STRIKE SLIP; TERTIARY;

CHILE, ANTOFAGASTA, CHUQUICAMATA;

EID: 0030480574     PISSN: 00401951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0040-1951(95)00109-3     Document Type: Article

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