Extensional basin evolution in the Cordillera Blanca, Peru: Stratigraphic and isotopic records of detachment faulting and orogenic collapse in the Andean hinterland

Tectonics

Volumn 29, Issue 6, 2010, Pages

  Giovanni, Melissa K ^a   Horton, Brian K ^b   Garzione, Carmala N ^c   McNulty, Brendan ^d   Grove, Marty ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

^d CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANOXIC SEDIMENTS; GEOCHRONOLOGY; ISOTOPES; MICA; OXYGEN; SEDIMENTOLOGY; STRATIGRAPHY; SUBSIDENCE; TECTONICS; VOLCANIC ROCKS;

ALLUVIAL FANS; BASIN EVOLUTION; CRUSTAL THICKENINGS; DATA RECORDS; DETACHMENT FAULT; DETACHMENT FAULTING; DIRECTED TRANSPORT; FOLD-THRUST BELTS; HIGH ELEVATION; ISOTOPIC RECORD; JURASSIC; LATE CENOZOIC; LITHOFACIES; MIOCENE; NORMAL FAULTS; OROGENIC COLLAPSE; OXYGEN ISOTOPES; PLIOCENE; SILTSTONES; SLIP DISPLACEMENTS; UPPER MIOCENE; WATER COMPOSITION;

SEDIMENTARY ROCKS;

ARGON ISOTOPE; BASIN EVOLUTION; BATHOLITH; CRUSTAL THICKENING; DETACHMENT FAULT; DIP-SLIP FAULT; FAULTING; FOOTWALL; GEOLOGICAL RECORD; ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; LITHOFACIES; OROGENY; OXYGEN ISOTOPE; PROVENANCE; SEDIMENTARY ROCK; SEDIMENTOLOGY; SUBSIDENCE; VOLCANIC ROCK;

ANCASH; ANDES; CORDILLERA BLANCA; CORDILLERA OCCIDENTAL [PERU]; PERU;

EID: 78649741302     PISSN: 02787407     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2010TC002666     Document Type: Article

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