Reply to the comment by R. A. Astini and F. M. Dávila on "the West Andean Thrust, the San Ramón Fault, and the seismic hazard for Santiago, Chile"

Tectonics

Volumn 29, Issue 4, 2010, Pages

  Armijo, Rolando ^a   RauldR Rodrigo, ^b   Thiele, Ricardo ^b   Vargas, Gabriel ^b   Campos, Jaime ^b   Lacassin, Robin ^a   Kausel, Edgar ^b  

^a INSTITUT DE PHYSIQUE DU GLOBE DE PARIS   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHILE   (Chile)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OZOPHORA (BUG);

EID: 77955181315     PISSN: 02787407     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2010TC002692     Document Type: Note

References (31)

1. Allmendinger, R. W., T. Jordan, S. Kay, and B. L. Isacks (1997), The evolution of the Altiplano?Puna Plateau of the central Andes, Annu. Rev. Earth Planet. Sci., 25, 139-174, doi:10.1146/annurev. earth.25.1.139.
2. Amilibia, A., F. Sabat, K. R. McClay, J. A. Muñoz, E. Roca, and G. Chong (2008), The role of inherited tectono-sedimentary architecture in the development of the central Andean mountain belt: Insights from the Cordillera de Domeyko, J. Struct. Geol., 30(12), 1520-1539, doi:10.1016/j.jsg.2008.08.005.
3. Armijo, R., R. Rauld, R. Thiele, G. Vargas, J. Campos, R. Lacassin, and E. Kausel (2010), The West Andean Thrust, the San Ramón Fault, and the seismic hazard for Santiago, Chile, Tectonics, 29, TC2007, doi:10.1029/ 2008TC002427.
4. Arriagada, C., P. R. Cobbold, and P. Roperch (2006), Salar de Atacama basin: A record of compressional tectonics in the central Andes since the mid? Cretaceous, Tectonics, 25, TC1008, doi:10.1029/ 2004TC001770.
5. Astini, R. A., and F. M. Dávila (2010), Comment on "The West Andean Thrust, the San Ramón Fault, and the seismic hazard for Santiago, Chile" by Rolando Armijo et al., Tectonics, 29, TC4009, doi:10.1029/2009TC002647.
6. Beaumont, C., S. Ellis, J. Hamilton, and P. Fullsack (1996), Mechanical model for subduction-collision tectonics of Alpine-type compressional orogens, Geology, 24(8), 675-678, doi:10.1130/0091-7613 (1996)024<0675:MMFSCT>2.3. CO;2.
7. Charrier, R., O. Baeza, S. Elgueta, J. J. Flynn, P. Gans, S. M. Kay, N. Muñoz, A. R. Wyss, and E. Zurita (2002), Evidence for Cenozoic extensional basin development and tectonic inversion south of the flat-slab segment, southern central Andes, Chile (33°-36° S.L.), J. South Am. Earth Sci., 15, 117-139, doi:10.1016/S0895-9811(02)00009-3. (Pubitemid 34557524)
8. Coulbourn, W. T., and R. Moberly (1977), Structural evidence of evolution of fore-arc basins off South America, Can. J. Earth Sci., 14(1), 102-116.
9. Davis, D., J. Suppe, and F. A. Dahlen (1983), Mechanics of fold-and-thrust belts and accretionary wedges, J. Geophys. Res., 88(B2), 1153-1172, doi:10.1029/JB088iB02p01153.
10. DeCelles, P. G., and K. A. Giles (1996), Foreland basin systems, Basin Res., 8(2), 105-123, doi:10.1046/ j.1365-2117.1996.01491.x.
11. DeCelles, P. G., and B. K. Horton (2003), Early to middle Tertiary foreland basin development and the history of Andean crustal shortening in Bolivia, Geol. Soc. Am. Bull., 115(1), 58-77, doi:10.1130/ 0016-7606(2003) 115<0058:ETMTFB>2.0.CO;2.
12. Dickinson, W. R. (1995), Forearc basins, in Tectonics of Sedimentary Basins, edited by C. J. Busby and R. V. Ingersoll, pp. 221-261, Blackwell Sci., Cambridge, Mass.
13. Farías, M., R. Charrier, S. Carretier, J. Martinod, A. Fock, D. Campbell, J. Cáceres, and D. Comte (2008), Late Miocene high and rapid surface uplift and its erosional response in the Andes of central Chile (33°-35°S), Tectonics, 27, TC1005, doi:10.1029/2006TC002046.
14. Giambiagi, L. B., V. A. Ramos, E. Godoy, P. P. Alvarez, and S. Orts (2003), Cenozoic deformation and tectonic style of the Andes, between 33° and 34° south latitude, Tectonics, 22(4), 1041, doi:10.1029/ 2001TC001354.
15. Horton, B. K., B. A. Hampton, and G. L. Waanders (2001), Paleogene synorogenic sedimentation in the Altiplano plateau and implications for initial mountain building in the central Andes, Geol. Soc. Am. Bull., 113(11), 1387-1400, doi:10.1130/0016-7606(2001)113<1387:PSSITA>2.0.CO;2.
16. Isacks, B. L. (1988), Uplift of the central Andean plateau and bending of the Bolivian orocline, J. Geophys. Res., 93(B4), 3211-3231, doi:10.1029/ JB093iB04p03211.
17. Kley, J., C. Monaldi, and J. Salfity (1999), Along-strike segmentation of the Andean foreland: Causes and consequences, Tectonophysics, 301(1-2), 75-94, doi:10.1016/S0040-1951(98)90223-2. (Pubitemid 29412252)
18. Laursen, J., and W. R. Normark (2003), Impact of structural and autocyclic basin-floor topography on the depositional evolution of the deep-water Valparaiso forearc basin, central Chile, Basin Res., 15, 201-226, doi:10.1046/j.1365-2117.2003.00205.x. (Pubitemid 36755764)
19. Maksaev, V., and M. Zentilli (1999), Fission track thermochronology of the Domeyko Cordillera, northern Chile: Implications for Andean tectonics and porphyry copper metallogenesis, Explor. Min. Geol., 8(1-2), 65-89.
20. Malavieille, J. (1984), Experimental model for imbricated thrusts-Comparison with thrust-belts, Bull. Soc. Geol. Fr., 26(1), 129-138.
21. McQuarrie, N., B. K. Horton, G. Zandt, S. Beck, and P. G. DeCelles (2005), Lithospheric evolution of the Andean fold-thrust belt, Bolivia, and the origin of the central Andean plateau, Tectonophysics, 399(1-4), 15-37, doi:10.1016/j.tecto.2004.12.013. (Pubitemid 40533954)
22. Ramos, V. A., T. Zapata, E. Cristallini, and A. Introcaso (2004), The Andean thrust system-Latitudinal variations in structural styles and orogenic shortening, in Thrust Tectonics and Hydrocarbon Systems, edited by K. R. McClay, AAPG Mem., 82, 30-50.
23. Scheuber, E., T. Bogdanic, A. Jensen, and K.-J. Reutter (1994), Tectonic development of the north Chilean Andes in relation to plate convergence and magmatism since the Jurassic, in Tectonics of the Southern Central Andes, edited by K.-J. Reutter, E. Scheuber, and P. Wigger, pp. 121-140, Springer, Berlin.
24. Scholl, D. W., M. N. Christensen, R. Von Huene, and M. S. Marlow (1970), Peru-Chile trench sediments and sea-floor spreading, Geol. Soc. Am. Bull., 81(5), 1339-1360, doi:10.1130/0016-7606(1970)81[1339: PTSASS]2.0.CO;2.
25. Sempere, T., R. F. Butler, D. R. Richards, L. G. Marshall, W. Sharp, and C. C. Swisher (1997), Stratigraphy and chronology of upper Cretaceous lower Paleogene strata in Bolivia and northwest Argentina, Geol. Soc. Am. Bull., 109(6), 709-727, doi:10.1130/0016-7606(1997)109<0709: SACOUC>2.3.CO;2.
26. Stern, R. J. (2002), Subduction zones, Rev. Geophys., 40(4), 1012, doi:10.1029/2001RG000108.
27. Strecker, M. R., R.N.Alonso, B. Bookhagen, B. Carrapa, G. E. Hilley, E. R. Sobel, and M. H. Trauth (2007), Tectonics and climate of the southern central Andes, Annu. Rev. Earth Planet. Sci., 35, 747-787, doi:10.1146/annurev.earth. 35.031306.140158. (Pubitemid 46937897)
28. ten Brink, U. S., S. Marshak, and J. L. G. Bruna (2009), Bivergent thrust wedges surrounding oceanic island arcs: Insight from observations and sandbox models of the northeastern Caribbean plate, Geol. Soc. Am. Bull., 121(11-12), 1522-1536, doi:10.1130/ B26512.1.
29. Uyeda, S., and H. Kanamori (1979), Back-arc opening and the mode of subduction, J. Geophys. Res., 84(B3), 1049-1061, doi:10.1029/JB084iB03p01049.
30. Victor, P., O. Oncken, and J. Glodny (2004), Uplift of the western Altiplano plateau: Evidence from the Precordillera between 20° and 21°S (northern Chile), Tectonics, 23, TC4004, doi:10.1029/ 2003TC001519.
31. Willett, S., C. Beaumont, and P. Fullsack (1993), Mechanical model for the tectonics of doubly vergent compressional orogens, Geology, 21(4), 371-374, doi:10.1130/0091-7613(1993)021<0371: MMFTTO>2.3.CO;2.