The evolution of the high-elevated depocenters of the northern Sierras Pampeanas (ca. 28° SL), Argentine broken foreland, South-Central Andes: The Pipanaco Basin

Basin Research

Volumn 24, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 615-636

  Dávila, Federico M ^a,c   Giménez, Mario E ^b   Nóbile, Julieta C ^a   Martínez, M Patricia ^b  

^a UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE CÓRDOBA   (Argentina)

^b UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE SAN JUAN   (Argentina)

^c UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BASIN EVOLUTION; DEPOSITION; FORELAND BASIN; GEODYNAMICS; INTERMONTANE BASIN; LITHOSPHERIC STRUCTURE; MIOCENE; PLEISTOCENE; PLIOCENE; SEDIMENT THICKNESS; SEISMIC TOMOGRAPHY; STRATIGRAPHY; SUBSIDENCE; UPLIFT;

ANDES; ARGENTINA; SIERRAS PAMPEANAS;

EID: 84863784747     PISSN: 0950091X     EISSN: 13652117     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2117.2011.00539.x     Document Type: Article

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