Plateau-style accumulation of deformation: Southern Altiplano

Tectonics

Volumn 24, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 1-19

  Elger, Kirsten ^a   Oncken, Onno ^a   Glodny, Johannes ^a  

^a GFZ GERMAN RESEARCH CENTRE FOR GEOSCIENCES   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRUSTAL DEFORMATION; MIOCENE; OLIGOCENE; PLATEAU; TECTONIC EVOLUTION;

ALTIPLANO; SOUTH AMERICA; WESTERN HEMISPHERE; WORLD;

EID: 23044505122     PISSN: 02787407     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2004TC001675     Document Type: Article

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