Miocene to Quaternary deformation of the Guañacos fold-and-thrust belt in the Neuquén Andes between 37°S and 37°30'S

Special Paper of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 407, Issue , 2006, Pages 247-266

  Folguera, Andrés ^a   Ramos, Víctor A ^a   Díaz, Emilio F González ^a   Hermanns, Reginald ^b  

^a UNIVERSIDAD DE BUENOS AIRES   (Argentina)

^b GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Andean neotectonics; Late miocene deformation; Tectonic inversion; Tertiary extension

Indexed keywords

DEFORMATION; STRIKE-SLIP FAULTS; VOLCANOES;

BRITTLE DEFORMATION; FOLD-AND-THRUST BELTS; LATE MIOCENE; LOS CARDOS-CENTINELA; NEOTECTONICS; QUATERNARY DEPOSITS; STRIKE-SLIP FAULT SYSTEMS; TERTIARY EXTENSION;

VOLCANIC ROCKS;

BRITTLE DEFORMATION; CRETACEOUS; DEFORMATION; FOLD AND THRUST BELT; ISLAND ARC; MIOCENE; NEOTECTONICS; QUATERNARY; STRIKE-SLIP FAULT; TERTIARY;

ANDES; SOUTHERN VOLCANIC ZONE;

EID: 73949110729     PISSN: 00721077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1130/2006.2407(11)     Document Type: Article

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