Integration of regional stratigraphic relationships with data on sediment accumulation,
provenance, paleodrainage, and deformation timing enables a reconstruction of Mesozoic …

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 …

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

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

We present an upgraded version of a previously published 3-D density model of the Andean
subduction zone between 18° S and 45° S. This model consists of 3-D bodies of constant …

The Southern Andes have been built through the stacking of crustal sheets in discrete
periods during the last 100 My. The first important shortening took place in Late Cretaceous …

We report a sequence of crustal quakes that began after the Mw= 8.8 thrust‐subduction
Maule earthquake that affected the Central Chile margin on 27 February 2010. This activity …

The Andean fold-and-thrust belts of west-central Argentina (33° S and 36° S), above the
normal subduction segment, present important along-strike variations in mean topographic …

Abstract The North Patagonian fold-thrust belt (41°–44° S) is characterized by a low
topography, reduced crustal thickness and a broad lateral development determined by a …

Shortening of the continental lithosphere is generally accommodated by the growth of
crustal wedges building above megathrusts in the mantle lithosphere. We show that the …