… plateaus formed in the absence of continentalcollision is embodied by the Altiplano-Puna,
which stretches for 1800 km alongthe Central Andes … temporally with Andean arc magmatism, …

… We analyze the spatiotemporal progression of basin isolation and filling at the eastern
margin of the Puna Plateau of the Argentine Andes to determine if the topography predicted by …

… such as the Altiplano-Puna in the central Andes. Convective instabilities are especially likely
… Mafic volcanic rocks erupted on the central Andean Altiplano-Puna plateau during the past …

… Andean Orogeny in the Cenozoic. To constrain the structural characteristics and timing of
Andean deformation in the Puna plateau… determine the amount of Andean exhumation on the …

… in the Puna Plateau by constraining regional kinematics of the poorly understood southern
Puna Plateau through a multidisciplinary approach. On the southeastern plateau, sandstone …

… of the central Andes is knowledge of the age that the Puna-Altiplano plateau became a
unique tectonomorphic entity within the orogen. The two attributes that define the Puna-Altiplano …

… The Andes constitute an important orographic barrier in the … Central Andes of NW Argentina,
the Andean Plateau (Puna) … its intermontane basins and the Puna constitute high-elevation …

… central Andean Plateau, generally defined as the area with elevations above 3 km. The central
… obliquely across the central Puna Plateau, with most of the northern Puna region east of …

… central Andes [Pardo-Casas and Molnar, 1987]. This probably explains why the central Andes
… The main topographic feature of the central Andes is a high plateau, which includes the …

… the central Andes have enriched our understanding of orogenic plateaus, such as the
Altiplano-Puna Plateau, … result in a deformation front in the central Andes that has migrated in an …