Kinematics of a hybrid thick-thin-skinned fold and thrust belt recorded in neogene syntectonic wedge-top Basins, southerncentral andes between 35 °and 36°S, Malargüe, Argentina

AAPG Memoir

Volumn , Issue 94, 2011, Pages 245-270

  Kraemer, Pablo ^a   Silvestra, José ^b   Achilli, Federico ^c   Brinkworth, Walter ^c  

^a WINTERSHALL HOLDING GMBH   (Germany)

^b YPF S A   (Argentina)

^c TOTAL   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHRONOSTRATIGRAPHY; DEFORMATION; DEPOCENTER; FAULT GEOMETRY; FOLD AND THRUST BELT; KINEMATICS; NEOGENE; NUMERICAL MODEL; OUTCROP; PALEOGEOGRAPHY; POTASSIUM-ARGON DATING; SALT TECTONICS; TECTONIC EVOLUTION; TECTONIC SETTING;

ANDES; ARGENTINA;

EID: 84865588879     PISSN: 02718529     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1306/13251340M943099     Document Type: Article

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