Tectonic History of the Andes and Sub-Andean Zones: Implications for the Development of the Amazon Drainage Basin

Amazonia, Landscape and Species Evolution: A Look into the Past

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 38-60

  Mora, Andres ^a   Baby, Patrice ^b   Roddaz, Martin ^b   Parra, Mauricio ^c   Brusset, Stéphane ^b   Hermoza, Wilber ^d   Espurt, Nicolas ^e  

^a ECOPETROL S A   (Colombia)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE TOULOUSE   (France)

^c University of Austin   (United States)

^d REPSOL YPF   (Spain)

^e AIX MARSEILLE UNIVERSITY   (France)

Author keywords

Andes and Amazon River neighbouring geographical and geological features; Andes and its relationship to Amazon foreland and Amazon River dynamics; Cenozoic shortening history in Central and Northern Andes; Central Andes studies on exhumation of Bolivian Eastern Cordillera; History of Amazon River in regional geological context; Northern Peruvian Andes and Ecuadorian Andes; Pre Eocene deformation events and 'Peruvian phase'; Surface uplift data in Andes; Tectonic history of Andes and sub Andean zones; Vaup s Swell and Fitzcarrald Arch

Indexed keywords

EID: 84987689244     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781444306408.ch4     Document Type: Chapter

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