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

Reconfigurations of magmatic arcs through time have been recognized since pioneering
works, describing inland and trenchward arc migrations or magmatic shut-off lasting for …

Broken foreland basins are caused by crustal-scale contractional basement structures that
compartmentalize (or break) a contiguous retroarc or collisional foreland basin into smaller …

The province of Chimborazo located in the northern Andes of Ecuador presents many
intrinsic factors, which contribute to the occurrence of mass movements, leaving in many of …

Growth of the Andes has been attributed to Cenozoic subduction. Although climatic and
tectonic processes have been proposed to be first-order mechanisms, their interaction and …

The onset of deformation in the northern Andes is overprinted by subsequent stages of basin
deformation, complicating the examination of competing models illustrating potential …

Abstract The Central Andean Plateau is the largest plateau formed in a non-collisional
setting and is taller, wider, has thicker crust, and has greater retroarc shortening than any …

Abstract The Southern Puna (∼ 24° S to 27° S) is an outstanding segment of the Central
Andes where the subduction of aseismic ridges, multi-scale lithospheric foundering, and the …

We examined the relationship between the mechanical strength of the lithosphere and the
distribution of seismicity within the overriding continental plate of the southern Central Andes …

The basin and plateau regions of the Central Andes have undergone phases of rapid
subsidence and uplift during the last~ 20 Myr in addition to internal tectonic deformation …