Comparison of crustal thickening budget and shortening estimates in southern Peru (12 14°S): Implications for mass balance and rotations in the "Bolivian orocline"

Bulletin of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 122, Issue 5-6, 2010, Pages 727-742

  Gotberg, Nicole ^a   McQuarrie, Nadine ^a   Caillaux, Victor Carlotto ^b  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b INSTITUTO GEOLÓGICO MINERO Y METALÚRGICO   (Peru)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOLIVIAN OROCLINE; CENTRAL ANDES; CONTROLLING FACTORS; CROSS SECTION; CRUSTAL FLOW; CRUSTAL MATERIALS; CRUSTAL SHORTENING; CRUSTAL THICKENINGS; EASTERN EDGE; FOREARC; FORELAND BASIN; MAP DATA; MASS BALANCE; OROCLINE; OROGENS; PALEOMAGNETIC DATA; THRUST BELT DEFORMATION; TRANSPORTED MATERIALS; VERTICAL-AXIS ROTATION; VOLCANIC ARC;

BENDING (DEFORMATION); ROTATION; THREE DIMENSIONAL; VOLCANOES;

TECTONICS;

BENDING; BLOCK ROTATION; CRUSTAL SHORTENING; CRUSTAL THICKENING; DEFORMATION; DISPLACEMENT; FORELAND BASIN; ISLAND ARC; MASS BALANCE; PLATEAU; TECTONIC ROTATION; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING;

ANDES; PERU;

EID: 77953840293     PISSN: 00167606     EISSN: 00167606     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/B26477.1     Document Type: Article

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