Structure and geodynamics of the post-collision zone between the Nazca-Antarctic spreading center and South America

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 345-348, Issue , 2012, Pages 27-37

  Maksymowicz, Andrei ^a   Contreras Reyes, Eduardo ^a   Grevemeyer, Ingo ^b   Flueh, Ernst R ^b  

^a DEPARTAMENTO DE FÍSICA   (Chile)

^b GEOMAR HELMHOLTZ CENTRE FOR OCEAN RESEARCH KIEL   (Germany)

Author keywords

Accretionary prism; Antarctic plate; Chile Triple Junction; Erosion; Patagonia; Subduction

Indexed keywords

ACCRETIONARY PRISM; ANTARCTIC PLATE; CHILE TRIPLE JUNCTIONS; PATAGONIA; SUBDUCTION;

EROSION; GEODYNAMICS; PLATES (STRUCTURAL COMPONENTS); SEDIMENTOLOGY; SEDIMENTS; TECTONICS; TOMOGRAPHY;

PRISMS;

ACCRETIONARY PRISM; COLLISION ZONE; CONTINENTAL SLOPE; CONVERGENCE; DEFORMATION MECHANISM; DISCONTINUITY; GEODYNAMICS; NEWTONIAN FLUID; PLATE TECTONICS; SPREADING CENTER; SUBDUCTION ZONE;

CHILE TRIPLE JUNCTION; ICA; NAZCA; PACIFIC OCEAN; PATAGONIA; PERU;

EID: 84864039704     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2012.06.023     Document Type: Article

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