Late Cretaceous Uplift in the Malargiie fold-and-thrust belt (35°S), southern Central Andes of Argentina and Chile Levantamiento Cretácico Tardío en la faja plegada y corrida de Malargüe (35°S), Andes Centrales del sur, Argentina y Chile

The Cordillera de los Andes is the typical example of a subduction-related orogen. Its present topography is the result of post-Miocene uplift, however, Andean compressional deformation and uplift started in the Late Cretaceous, as increasingly recognized in different sectors of the mountain belt. W...

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Main Authors: José Francisco Mescua, Laura Beatriz Giambiagi, Víctor Alberto Ramos
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Servicio Nacional de Geología y Minería (SERNAGEOMIN) 2013-01-01
Series:Andean Geology
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Online Access:http://www.scielo.cl/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0718-71062013000100005