A review of Late Cretaceous to Quaternary palaeogeography of the southern Andes

Biological Journal of the Linnean Society

Volumn 103, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 250-268

  Folguera, Andrés ^a   Orts, Darío ^a   Spagnuolo, Mauro ^a   Vera, Emilio Rojas ^a   Litvak, Vanesa ^a   Sagripanti, Lucía ^a   Ramos, Miguel E ^a   Ramos, Victor A ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD DE BUENOS AIRES   (Argentina)

Author keywords

Andean uplift; Foreland massifs; Shallow subduction; Volcanism

Indexed keywords

ASTHENOSPHERE; BUOYANCY; CRETACEOUS; DEFORMATION; FOLD AND THRUST BELT; FORELAND BASIN; MAGMATISM; MIOCENE; PALEOGEOGRAPHY; QUATERNARY; SEISMIC ZONE; SERPENTINIZATION; SUBDUCTION; SUBDUCTION ZONE; TECTONIC EVOLUTION; TECTONIC SETTING; UPLIFT; VOLCANISM;

ANDES;

EID: 79957756396     PISSN: 00244066     EISSN: 10958312     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1095-8312.2011.01687.x     Document Type: Article

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