Clockwise block rotations in northern Chile: Indications for a large-scale domino mechanism during the middle-late Eocene

Geology

Volumn 27, Issue 8, 1999, Pages 751-754

  Abels, Andreas ^a   Bischoff, Lutz ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GEOLOGY;

BASEMENT STRUCTURES; CRUSTAL BLOCK; LATE EOCENE; NORTHERN CHILE; PERU-CHILE TRENCH; PRECORDILLERA; STRUCTURAL ELEMENTS; VERTICAL-AXIS ROTATION;

CLOCKS;

ANDEAN OROGENY; BLOCK ROTATION; DEFORMATION; EOCENE; TECTONICS;

CHILE;

EID: 84879889536     PISSN: 00917613     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/0091-7613(1999)027<0751:CBRINC>2.3.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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