Miocene forebulge development previous to broken foreland partitioning in the southern Central Andes, west-central Argentina

Tectonics

Volumn 26, Issue 5, 2007, Pages

  Dávila, Federico M ^a   Astini, Ricardo A ^a   Jordan, Teresa E ^b   Gehrels, George ^c   Ezpeleta, Miguel ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE CÓRDOBA   (Argentina)

^b Institute for the Study of the Continents   (United States)

^c University of Arizona   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGGRADATION; BASIN EVOLUTION; FAULTING; FORELAND BASIN; MODELING; SEDIMENTATION; SUBSIDENCE; TECTONIC EVOLUTION;

ANDES; ARGENTINA; SIERRAS PAMPEANAS; SOUTH AMERICA;

EID: 37549053254     PISSN: 02787407     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2007TC002118     Document Type: Article

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