Cenozoic contractional tectonics in the Fuegian Andes, southernmost South America: a model for the transference of orogenic shortening to the foreland

Cenozoic contractional tectonics in the Fuegian Andes, southernmost South America: a model for the transference of orogenic shortening to the foreland

The Fuegian thrust-fold belt has been subjected to significant shortening during the Cenozoic. Although contemporaneous shortening and uplift was also recognized in the Fuegian Andes central belt (hinterland), previous studies stated that most of that deformation developed out-of-sequence with the...

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Main Authors: P.J. TORRES-CARBONELL, L.V. DIMIERI
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Universitat de Barcelona (UB), Geociències Barcelona (Geo3BCN), Institut de Diagnosi Ambiental i Estudis de l'Aigua (IDAEA), Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB) 2013-09-01
Series:Geologica Acta
Subjects:
Central belt
Thrust-fold belt
Shortening transference
Crustal duplex
Cenozoic
Fuegian Andes
Online Access:https://revistes.ub.edu/index.php/GEOACTA/article/view/8011

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