Bending of the Bolivian orocline and growth of the central Andean plateau: Paleomagnetic and structural constraints from the Eastern Cordillera (22-24°S, NW Argentina)

Tectonics

Volumn 28, Issue 4, 2009, Pages

  Maffione, Marco ^a,b   Speranza, Fabio ^a   Faccenna, Claudio ^c  

^a ISTITUTO NAZIONALE DI GEOFISICA E VULCANOLOGIA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

^c ROMA TRE UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BASEMENT ROCK; CRETACEOUS; CRUSTAL SHORTENING; CRUSTAL THICKENING; FAULT ZONE; LANDFORM EVOLUTION; MIOCENE; NUMERICAL MODEL; OLIGOCENE; PALEOMAGNETISM; PLATEAU; PLIOCENE; SEDIMENTARY ROCK; STRIKE-SLIP FAULT; SYNTECTONIC SEDIMENT; TECTONIC EVOLUTION; TECTONIC ROTATION;

ANDES; ARGENTINA; CORDILLERA ORIENTAL [ANDES];

EID: 71749106239     PISSN: 02787407     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2008TC002402     Document Type: Article

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