Cenozoic orogenic growth in the Central Andes: Evidence from sedimentary rock provenance and apatite fission track thermochronology in the Fiambalá Basin, southernmost Puna Plateau margin (NW Argentina)

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 247, Issue 1-2, 2006, Pages 82-100

  Carrapa, B ^a   Strecker, M R ^a   Sobel, E R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF POTSDAM   (Germany)

Author keywords

exhumation; plateau; provenance; relief; sedimentary basin; thermochronology; uplift

Indexed keywords

EXHUMATION; OROGENY; THERMOCHRONOLOGY;

GEOCHRONOLOGY; LANDFORMS; SEDIMENTARY ROCKS; VOLCANOES;

GEOLOGY;

BASIN EVOLUTION; CENOZOIC; EXHUMATION; OROGENY; RELIEF; SEDIMENTARY BASIN; THERMOCHRONOLOGY; UPLIFT;

ANDES; SOUTH AMERICA;

EID: 33745469629     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2006.04.010     Document Type: Article

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