Anatomy and global context of the Andes: Main geologic features and the Andean orogenic cycle

Memoir of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 204, Issue , 2009, Pages 31-65

  Ramos, Víctor A ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD DE BUENOS AIRES   (Argentina)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEFORMATION; METALS;

ABSOLUTE-MOTION; CONTINENTAL MARGIN; EARLY CRETACEOUS; FLAT-SLAB SUBDUCTIONS; GEOLOGIC FEATURES; MOUNTAIN BUILDING; OROGENIC CYCLES; SUBDUCTION ZONES;

STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY;

CENOZOIC; CONFERENCE PROCEEDING; CONTINENTAL COLLISION; CONTINENTAL MARGIN; FOLD AND THRUST BELT; FORELAND BASIN; OCEANIC CRUST; OROGENY; PROTEROZOIC; RIFTING; SUBDUCTION; SUBDUCTION ZONE; TECTONIC EVOLUTION;

ANDES;

EID: 73549106833     PISSN: 00721069     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1130/2009.1204(02)     Document Type: Conference Paper

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