Geometry and structural evolution of the Central Andean backthrust belt, Bolivia

Tectonics

Volumn 20, Issue 5, 2001, Pages 669-692

  McQuarrie, N ^a   DeCelles, P ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRUSTAL SHORTENING; FOLD AND THRUST BELT; GEOMETRY; PHANEROZOIC; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY; TECTONIC EVOLUTION;

ANDES; BOLIVIA;

EID: 0034768950     PISSN: 02787407     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2000TC001232     Document Type: Article

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