Updated Nazca (Farallon)-South America relative motions during the last 40 My: Implications for mountain building in the central Andean region

Journal of South American Earth Sciences

Volumn 11, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 211-215

  Somoza, R ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD DE BUENOS AIRES   (Argentina)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CENOZOIC; CONVERGENCE; PLATE MOTION;

SOUTH AMERICA;

EID: 0032417687     PISSN: 08959811     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0895-9811(98)00012-1     Document Type: Article

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