The 'lost Inca Plateau': Cause of flat subduction beneath Peru?

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 171, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 335-341

  Gutscher, M A ^a   Olivet, J L ^a   Aslanian, D ^a   Eissen, J P ^a   Maury, R ^a  

^a IRD Centre de Bretagne   (France)

Author keywords

Nazca Plate; Nazca Ridge; Peru; Reconstruction; Subduction

Indexed keywords

SUBDUCTION; TECTONIC RECONSTRUCTION;

PERU;

EID: 0032762201     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0012-821X(99)00153-3     Document Type: Article

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