A geomorphological approach to determining the Neogene to Recent tectonic deformation in the Coastal Cordillera of northern Chile (Atacama)

Tectonophysics

Volumn 361, Issue 3-4, 2003, Pages 255-275

  Riquelme, R ^a,b   Martinod, J ^b,c   Herail G ^a,b,c   Darrozes, J ^a,c   Charrier, R ^b  

^a INSTITUT DE RECHERCHE POUR LE DÉVELOPPEMENT   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHILE   (Chile)

^c CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

Andes; Chile; Fluvial erosion; Neotectonics; Quantitative geomorphology

Indexed keywords

CENOZOIC; DEFORMATION; FLUVIAL GEOMORPHOLOGY; GEOMORPHOLOGY; INCISED VALLEY; NEOTECTONICS; TECTONIC EVOLUTION;

ANDES; ATACAMA FAULT; CHILE;

EID: 0037461588     PISSN: 00401951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0040-1951(02)00649-2     Document Type: Article

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