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 …

Water plays a critical role in erosion and sediment transport and this relationship is most
evident in the hyperarid Atacama Desert of Northern Chile, a region characterized by …

With the aim to better understand the timing and geological evolution of the late Cenozoic
stratigraphic record of the onshore, western Valdés Basin in northeast Chubut province …

Richly fossiliferous upper Oligocene to lower Miocene Patagoniense marine deposits
constitute a conspicuous feature of the sedimentary record of most basins in Patagonia …

The arrival and subsequent stagnation of the Farallon/Nazca slab at the mantle transition
zone below southern South America triggered seemingly unrelated large-scale geological …

Orogenic belts like the Andes experience several changes during long-term evolution of the
subduction margin; however, the degree to which their different components (the fore-to …

Abstract Desertification of Central Patagonia began between~ 14–12 Ma and therefore was
not directly connected to the opening of the Drake Passage and initial conformation of the …

Subduction of bathymetric anomalies (eg, an active ridge) can alter the morphology of
subducted slabs and their coupling to surface processes. A natural laboratory to study these …

Abstract The Central Patagonian Andes is a particular segment of the Andean Cordillera that
has been subjected to the subduction of two spreading ridges during Eocene and Neogene …

Contraction in intraplate areas is still poorly understood relative to similar deformation at
plate margins. In order to contribute to its comprehension, we study the Patagonian broken …