Nazca-South America interactions and the late Eocene-late Oligocene flat-slab episode in the central Andes

Tectonics

Volumn 31, Issue 2, 2012, Pages

  O'Driscoll, Leland J ^a   Richards, Mark A ^b   Humphreys, Eugene D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OREGON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GEODYNAMICS;

ABRUPT TRANSITION; CENTRAL ANDES; CRUSTAL SHORTENING; FOREARC; GEODYNAMIC MODELS; LARAMIDE; LATE EOCENE; NAZCA PLATE; OBLIQUE SUBDUCTION; OCEANIC PLATEAUX; OLIGOCENE; PALEOMAGNETIC ROTATIONS; PLATE MOTIONS; PROMINENT FEATURES; RELATIVE MOTION; SUBDUCTION ZONES;

TECTONICS;

COMPRESSION; CRUSTAL SHORTENING; EOCENE-OLIGOCENE BOUNDARY; GEODYNAMICS; NAZCA PLATE; OROGENY; PLATE MOTION; PLATE TECTONICS; PLATEAU; SLAB; SUBDUCTION; UPLIFT;

ANDES; ICA; NAZCA; PERU;

EID: 84859910427     PISSN: 02787407     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2011TC003036     Document Type: Article

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