Normal faulting along the southern margin of the Puna Plateau, northwest Argentina

Tectonics

Volumn 28, Issue 5, 2009, Pages

  Schoenbohm, Lindsay M ^a,b   Strecker, Manfred R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF POTSDAM   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONGLOMERATE; CONTINENTAL MARGIN; CRUSTAL SHORTENING; EXTENSIONAL TECTONICS; MIOCENE; NORMAL FAULT; OROGENY; PLATE CONVERGENCE; PLIOCENE; REVERSE FAULT; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; TECTONIC EVOLUTION; TEMPORAL DISTRIBUTION; THRUST FAULT;

ANDES; ARGENTINA; CHINA; QINGHAI-XIZANG PLATEAU;

EID: 71749098467     PISSN: 02787407     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2008TC002341     Document Type: Article

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