Geodynamics of a cordilleran orogenic system

Geodynamics of a cordilleran orogenic system

By Peter G. DeCelles

Subjects: Orogenic belts, Geodynamics

Description: "This memoir brings together results from a multidisciplinary study of the processes that have formed the highest, widest part of the Andean Cordilleran orogenic belt in northern Argentina and Chile. The region features a tectonically erosive forearc, protracted arc magmatism, a high-elevation hinterland plateau and strongly shortened retroarc thrust belt, and a Paleocene-Recent foreland basin system"--

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