A Simplified View about the Fuegian Andes and the Complex Folding of the Mesozoic and Early Tertiary Layers

• Main Author: Acevedo, Rogelio Daniel
• Other Authors: Rabassa, Jorge Oscar
• Format: Book Part
• Language: English
• Published: Springer
• Subjects: Fuegian Andes; folding; plates; https://purl.org/becyt/ford/1.5; https://purl.org/becyt/ford/1; Austral; Drake Passage; Argentina; Magallanes; The Arch; Tierra del Fuego
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/11336/119493

The arch described by the Patagonian orogenic belt in Tierra del Fuego and the acute folding of the Mesozoic and earliest Tertiary strata are not two independent phenomena. The search for the causes that have produced these two structural features, arc and folding, has to take into consideration the...