Tectonic shortening and crustal thickness in the Central Andes: How good is the correlation-?

Geology

Volumn 26, Issue 8, 1998, Pages 723-726

  Kley, Jonas ^a   Monaldi, César R ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KARLSRUHE   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE SALTA   (Argentina)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY;

AVERAGE VALUES; BALANCED CROSS SECTIONS; CENTRAL ANDES; CONTINENTAL CRUSTS; CROSS-SECTION AREA; CRUSTAL THICKNESS; NEOGENE TECTONIC; TECTONIC SHORTENING;

TECTONICS;

CONTINENTAL CRUST; CRUSTAL THICKNESS; LOWER CRUST; NEOGENE; UNDERPLATING; CRUSTAL THICKENING; TECTONICS;

ALTIPLANO; ANDES; PUNA; SOUTH AMERICA;

EID: 0032405950     PISSN: 00917613     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/0091-7613(1998)026<0723:TSACTI>2.3.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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