Mountain building in the Andes, the longest continental mountain range on Earth, started in
the Late Cretaceous but was highly diachronous. Reconstructing the timing of surface uplift …

As the archetype of mountain building in subduction zones, the Central Andes has
constituted an excellent example for investigating mountain-building processes for decades …

Construction of the Andes has been governed largely by fluctuating contractional, neutral,
and extensional tectonic regimes during differing degrees of mechanical coupling along the …

Major-and trace-element compositions of zircons and whole rocks from 14 barren and seven
ore-bearing calc-alkaline intrusions from the Chuquicamata-El Abra porphyry copper belt of …

We quantitatively analyse the spatial pattern of deformation partitioning and of temporal
accumulation of deformation in the Central Andes (15–26° S) with the aim of identifying …

The Andes, in particular their central parts, have been known as a preeminent Cu province
for more than 100 years and have been the source of many innovative metallogenic …

A program of geologic mapping and lithogeochemical and geochronological sampling has
been carried out over a 745-km2 area of the Atacama Desert surrounding the porphyry Cu …

Abstract The Atacama Desert forms one of the major hyperarid deserts of the world. Previous
studies suggest that desertification commenced at 14 Ma during global climate desiccation …

Zircon U-Pb ages measured in situ by excimer laser ablation–inductively coupled plasma–
mass spectrometry (ELA-ICP-MS) and verified by sensitive high-resolution ion microprobe …

The tectonic evolution of a continental magmatic arc that was active in the north Chilean
Coastal Cordillera in Jurassic‐Early Cretaceous times is described in order to show the …