Geomorphic evidence for Plio-Quaternary compression in the Andean foothills of the southern Neuqun Basin, Argentina

Tectonics

Volumn 29, Issue 4, 2010, Pages

  Messager, G ^a   Niviere B ^a   Martinod, J ^b   Lacan, P ^a   Xavier, J P ^c  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE PAU ET DES PAYS DE L'ADOUR   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE TOULOUSE   (France)

^c CSTJF   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEPOSITS; LANDFORMS; SOIL CONSERVATION; TECTONICS;

ALLUVIAL DEPOSITS; ARGENTINA; CENTRAL ANDES; CRUSTAL UPLIFT; EASTWARD PROPAGATION; FOLD-AND-THRUST BELTS; GEOMORPHIC EVIDENCE; MIOCENE; STUDY AREAS; TOPOGRAPHIC PROFILES;

RIVERS;

ALLUVIAL DEPOSIT; ANTICLINE; COMPRESSION; CRETACEOUS; CRUSTAL SHORTENING; FOLD AND THRUST BELT; FOLDING; GEOMORPHOLOGICAL RESPONSE; MIOCENE; OROGENIC BELT; PLIOCENE; PLIOCENE-PLEISTOCENE BOUNDARY; QUATERNARY; TECTONIC SETTING; TERRACE; UPLIFT;

ANDES; ARGENTINA; NEUQUEN BASIN;

EID: 77955209854     PISSN: 02787407     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2009TC002609     Document Type: Article

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