Retroarc deformation and exhumation near the end of the Andes, southern Patagonia

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 361, Issue , 2013, Pages 504-517

  Fosdick, Julie C ^a   Grove, Marty ^a   Hourigan, Jeremy K ^b   Calderón, Mauricio ^c  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CHILE   (Chile)

Author keywords

(U Th) He thermochronology; Climate; Exhumation; Patagonian Andes; Retroarc thrust belt

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE; EXHUMATION; PATAGONIAN ANDES; RETROARC THRUST-BELT; THERMOCHRONOLOGY;

APATITE; DEFORMATION; GLACIAL GEOLOGY; SEDIMENTATION; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY; ZIRCON;

EROSION;

APATITE; BASIN EVOLUTION; BATHOLITH; CENOZOIC; CRUSTAL THICKENING; DEFORMATION MECHANISM; DENUDATION; EXHUMATION; FORELAND BASIN; MIOCENE; MONOCLINE; SUBDUCTION; TECTONIC EVOLUTION; THERMOCHRONOLOGY; UPLIFT; URANIUM SERIES DATING;

ANDES; PATAGONIA;

EID: 84872278872     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2012.12.007     Document Type: Article

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