Propagation of orographic barriers along an active range front: Insights from sandstone petrography and detrital apatite fission-track thermochronology in the intramontane Angastaco basin, NW Argentina

Basin Research

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 1-26

  Coutand, Isabelle ^a,b   Carrapa, Barbara ^b   Deeken, Anke ^c   Schmitt, Axel K ^d   Sobel, Edward R ^b   Strecker, Manfred R ^b  

^a UNIV LILLE   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF POTSDAM   (Germany)

^c FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CENOZOIC; CRUSTAL SHORTENING; CRUSTAL STRUCTURE; PLATEAU;

ANDES; SOUTH AMERICA;

PUNA;

EID: 33644972701     PISSN: 0950091X     EISSN: 13652117     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2117.2006.00283.x     Document Type: Article

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