Piggyback basin development above a thin-skinned thrust belt with two detachment levels as a function of interactions between tectonic and superficial mass transfer: The case of the Subandean Zone (Bolivia)

Tectonophysics

Volumn 320, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 45-67

  Leturmy, P ^a   Mugnier, J L ^a   Vinour, P ^a   Baby, P ^b   Colletta, B ^c   Chabron, E ^a  

^a CNRS   (France)

^b Institut de Recherche pour le Developpement Ecuador   (Ecuador)

^c IFP ENERGIES NOUVELLES   (France)

Author keywords

Bolivian Subandean Zone; Duplex; Piggyback basin; Superficial processes; Syn sedimentary tectonics

Indexed keywords

BASIN EVOLUTION; CRUSTAL DEFORMATION; DETACHMENT FAULT; DUPLEX; FOLD AND THRUST BELT; SEDIMENTATION RATE; SYNSEDIMENTARY TECTONICS; TECTONIC EVOLUTION; THIN SKINNED TECTONICS; TILT;

BOLIVIA;

EID: 0034035073     PISSN: 00401951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0040-1951(00)00023-8     Document Type: Article

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