Oligocene-Miocene basin evolution in the Northern Altiplano, Bolivia: Implications for evolution of the central Andean backthrust belt and high plateau

Bulletin of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 122, Issue 9-10, 2010, Pages 1443-1462

  Murray, Bryan P ^a   Horton, Brian K ^b   Matos, Ramiro ^c   Heizler, Matthew T ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^c UNIVERSIDAD MAYOR DE SAN ANDRÉS   (Bolivia)

^d NEW MEXICO INSTITUTE OF MINING AND TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALLUVIAL FANS; BASIN EVOLUTION; COARSE-GRAINED; CRUSTAL THICKENINGS; EARLY MIOCENE; EASTERN CORDILLERA; FINE-GRAINED SAND; GROWTH STRATA; ISOSTATIC UPLIFT; LATE OLIGOCENE; LITHOFACIES ANALYSIS; MIOCENE; OLIGOCENE; PALEOCURRENTS; PALEOZOIC; PALEOZOIC STRATA; SEDIMENT PROVENANCE; SEDIMENT SOURCES; THRUST FAULTS;

QUARTZ; SEDIMENTARY ROCKS; SEDIMENTOLOGY; SEDIMENTS;

TECTONICS;

BASIN EVOLUTION; CONGLOMERATE; CRUSTAL SHORTENING; DEPOSITION; MIOCENE; OLIGOCENE; PROVENANCE; SANDSTONE; SEDIMENTATION; TECTONIC EVOLUTION; TECTONIC SETTING; UPLIFT;

ALTIPLANO; ANDES; BOLIVIA; CORDILLERA ORIENTAL [ANDES];

EID: 77957030831     PISSN: 00167606     EISSN: 00167606     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/B30129.1     Document Type: Article

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