Shallowing and steepening subduction zones, continental lithospheric loss, magmatism, and crustal flow under the Central Andean Altiplano-Puna Plateau

Memoir of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 204, Issue , 2009, Pages 229-259

  Kay, Suzanne Mahlburg ^a   Coira, Beatriz L ^b  

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

^b Facultad de Ciencias Naturales e Instituto M Lillo   (Argentina)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PLATES (STRUCTURAL COMPONENTS);

CRUSTAL SHORTENING; CRUSTAL THICKENINGS; EASTERN CORDILLERA; FOLD-AND-THRUST BELTS; HIGH PLATEAU REGION; LITHOSPHERIC MANTLE; LOWER CRUSTAL FLOWS; TEMPORAL DIFFERENCES;

MELTING;

CONFERENCE PROCEEDING; CONTINENTAL LITHOSPHERE; CRUSTAL SHORTENING; CRUSTAL THICKENING; DELAMINATION; MAGMATISM; NAZCA PLATE; SUBDUCTION ZONE; TECTONIC EVOLUTION;

ALTIPLANO; ANDES; PUNA;

EID: 71749099738     PISSN: 00721069     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1130/2009.1204(11)     Document Type: Conference Paper

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