The Relation Between Neogene Denudation of the Southernmost Andes and Sedimentation in the Offshore Argentine and Malvinas Basins During the Opening of the Drake Passage

• Main Authors: Ghiglione, Matias, Sue, Christian, Ramos, Miguel Esteban, Tobal, Jonathan Elías, Gallardo Jara, Rocío
• Format: Book Part
• Language: English
• Published: Springer
• Subjects: Southern Patagonian Andes; Orogenic growth; Sedimentation; Drake Passage; https://purl.org/becyt/ford/1.5; https://purl.org/becyt/ford/1; Antarctic; The Antarctic; Austral; Patagonia; Argentine; Magallanes; Antarc*
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/11336/167308

The Neogene orogenic growth of the Southern Patagonian Andes has been related to the approximation and collision of a series of segments of the Chile seismic ridge, which separates the Antarctic and Nazca plates, against South America. The compiled thermochronological data consistently indicates an...