Tectonic development of the North Patagonian Andes and their related Miocene foreland basin (41°30'-43°S)

Tectonics

Volumn 31, Issue 3, 2012, Pages

  Orts, Darío Leandro ^a   Folguera, Andrés ^a   Encinas, Alfonso ^b   Ramos, Miguel ^a   Tobal, Jonathan ^a   Ramos, Víctor A ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD DE BUENOS AIRES   (Argentina)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CONCEPCIÓN   (Chile)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EARLY CRETACEOUS; FORELAND BASIN; FRONTAL ZONES; GROWTH STRATA; LATE MIOCENE; LATE OLIGOCENE; MARINE TRANSGRESSION; MIDDLE JURASSIC; MIOCENE; OLIGOCENE; OROGENIC WEDGE; PLIOCENE; TECTONIC DEVELOPMENT;

TECTONICS;

EXTENSIONAL TECTONICS; FORELAND BASIN; GRABEN; GRANITE; JURASSIC; MIOCENE; OLIGOCENE; OROGENY; TECTONIC SETTING; TRANSGRESSION; VOLCANIC ROCK;

ANDES; PATAGONIA; PRECORDILLERA;

EID: 84861875495     PISSN: 02787407     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2011TC003084     Document Type: Article

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