Salar de Atacama basin: A record of compressional tectonics in the central Andes since the mid-Cretaceous

Tectonics

Volumn 25, Issue 1, 2006, Pages

  Arriagada, Cesar ^a,b   Cobbold, Peter R ^a   Roperch, Pierrick ^c  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE RENNES 1   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHILE   (Chile)

^c INSTITUT DE RECHERCHE POUR LE DÉVELOPPEMENT   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BASIN; CRUSTAL DEFORMATION; FILL; TECTONIC STRUCTURE;

ANTOFAGASTA; CHILE; SALAR DE ATACAMA BASIN; SOUTH AMERICA;

EID: 33645800376     PISSN: 02787407     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2004TC001770     Document Type: Article

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