Dynamics of deformation and sedimentation in the northern Sierras, Pampeanas: An integrated study of the Neogene Fiambalá basin, NW Argentina

Bulletin of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 120, Issue 11-12, 2008, Pages 1518-1543

  Carrapa, Barbara ^a,f   Hauer, Jörn ^b   Schoenbohm, Lindsay ^c   Strecker, Manfred R ^b   Schmitt, Axel K ^d   Villanueva, Arturo ^e   Gomez, José Sosa ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WYOMING   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF POTSDAM   (Germany)

^c OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^e UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE TUCUMÁN   (Argentina)

^f UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA   (United States)

Author keywords

Foreland; Sedimentation; Sierras Pampeanas; Thick skinned deformation; Thin skinned deformation Andes

Indexed keywords

ARGENTINA; BASIN EVOLUTION; CATCHMENT AREA; EASTERN CORDILLERA; FAULT KINEMATICS; FORELAND; FORELAND BASIN; IF THERE ARE; INTEGRAL PART; LATE MIOCENE; LOCAL SOURCE; NEO GENES; PLIOCENE; REGIONAL TECTONICS; SEDIMENTARY BASIN; SEDIMENTARY ENVIRONMENT; SEDIMENTATION PATTERN; SIERRAS PAMPEANAS; STRATIGRAPHIC SEQUENCES; STUDY AREAS; TECTONIC PROCESS; THICK-SKINNED-DEFORMATION; THIN-SKINNED DEFORMATION ANDES; U-PB GEOCHRONOLOGY; UPWARD TREND;

CATCHMENTS; DEFORMATION; GEOCHRONOLOGY; LEAD; SEDIMENTATION; SEDIMENTOLOGY; SETTLING TANKS; STRATIGRAPHY; TECTONICS;

SEDIMENTARY ROCKS;

BASIN EVOLUTION; CRUSTAL SHORTENING; DEFORMATION MECHANISM; EXHUMATION; FORELAND BASIN; NEOGENE; REVERSE FAULT; SEDIMENTATION; SUBDUCTION; URANIUM-LEAD DATING;

ANDES; ARGENTINA; BERMEJO BASIN; CORDILLERA ORIENTAL [ANDES]; PUNA; SIERRAS PAMPEANAS; SOUTH AMERICA;

EID: 69749108611     PISSN: 00167606     EISSN: 00167606     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/B26111.1     Document Type: Article

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