Glacial-interglacial trench supply variation, spreading-ridge subduction, and feedback controls on the Andean margin development at the Chile triple junction area (45-48°S)

Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth

Volumn 105, Issue B4, 2000, Pages 8355-8386

  Bourgois, Jacques ^a   Guivel, Christèle ^b   Lagabrielle, Yves ^c   Calmus, Thierry ^d   Boulègue, Jacques ^e   Daux, Valérie ^e  

^a CNRS   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE NANTES   (France)

^c INSTITUT DE RECHERCHE POUR LE DÉVELOPPEMENT   (New Caledonia)

^d UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL AUTÓNOMA DE MÉXICO   (Mexico)

^e SORBONNE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLACIATION; SUBDUCTION ZONE; TECTONIC RECONSTRUCTION; TRIPLE JUNCTION;

CHILE TRIPLE JUNCTION; PACIFIC OCEAN;

EID: 0034629872     PISSN: 21699313     EISSN: 21699356     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/1999jb900400     Document Type: Article

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