Major Miocene exhumation by fault-propagation folding within a metamorphosed, early Paleozoic thrust belt: Northwestern Argentina

Tectonics

Volumn 31, Issue 4, 2012, Pages

  Pearson, D M ^a   Kapp, P ^a   Reiners, P W ^a   Gehrels, G E ^a   Ducea, M N ^a,b   Pullen, A ^a,c   Otamendi, J E ^d   Alonso, R N ^e  

^a Nucl Eng Idaho State University   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BUCHAREST   (Romania)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

^d DEPARTAMENTO DE QUÍMICA   (Argentina)

^e UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE SALTA   (Argentina)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GEOCHRONOLOGY; LEAD; STRATIGRAPHY; ZIRCON;

ARGENTINA; CAMBRIANS; CAMBRO-ORDOVICIAN; CENOZOIC; CRUSTAL THICKENINGS; DETRITAL ZIRCON; EARLY PALEOZOIC; FAULT PROPAGATION; FOLD-THRUST BELTS; GRAVITATIONAL POTENTIAL ENERGY; LITHOSPHERIC; LOCAL MAGNITUDE; MAGMATISMS; MIOCENE; OROGENS; RIFT FAULTS; STRESS STATE; STRUCTURAL ARCHITECTURE; STRUCTURAL STYLES; THRUST BELTS; TOPOGRAPHIC FEATURES;

TECTONICS;

CRUSTAL SHORTENING; CRUSTAL THICKENING; DEFORMATION; DISPLACEMENT; EXHUMATION; FAULT PROPAGATION; FOLD AND THRUST BELT; FOLDING; MAGMATISM; METAMORPHISM; MIOCENE; OROGENY; PALEOZOIC; STRIKE-SLIP FAULT;

BOLIVIA;

EID: 84865491753     PISSN: 02787407     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2011TC003043     Document Type: Article

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