The basement of the Central Andes: The arequipa and related terranes

Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences

Volumn 36, Issue , 2008, Pages 289-324

  Ramos, Victor A ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD DE BUENOS AIRES   (Argentina)

Author keywords

Accretion; Dispersal; Famatinian orogeny; Grenville; Suns s

Indexed keywords

ABSOLUTE MOTION; AMAZONIA; ARC MAGMATISM; CAMBRIAN; CENTRAL ANDES; COLLAPSE (DRYING); CONTINENTAL MARGINS; COUNTER-CLOCKWISE ROTATIONS; EARLY PALEOZOIC; NEOPROTEROZOIC; OCEANIC CONDITIONS; ORDOVICIAN; PALEOMAGNETIC DATA; PALEOPROTEROZOIC; PARACAS; RODINIA; SLAB BREAK-OFF; SUPERCONTINENT; TERRANE ACCRETION;

BUILDINGS; FOUNDATIONS; SEPARATION; TECTONICS;

GEOCHRONOLOGY;

ARC-CONTINENT COLLISION; CAMBRIAN; COLLISION; GONDWANA; GRENVILLIAN OROGENY; LAURENTIA; METAMORPHISM; ORDOVICIAN; PLATE CONVERGENCE; PLATE MOTION; PROTEROZOIC; RODINIA; TERRANE;

AMAZONIA; ANTOFALLA; AREQUIPA [PERU]; ARGENTINA; CATAMARCA; PERU; SIERRAS PAMPEANAS; SOUTH AMERICA;

EID: 45849138835     PISSN: 00846597     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.earth.36.031207.124304     Document Type: Article

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