Late Cretaceous to recent plate motions in western South America revisited

• Main Authors: Somoza, Ruben, Ghidella, Marta Elba
• Language: unknown
• Published: 2012
• Subjects: Andes; Cenozoic; Convergence; Late Cretaceous; Continental lithosphere; Convergence rates; Hot-spot model; Late Neogene; Late Oligocene; Nazca plate; Neo genes; Oceanic lithosphere; Oceanic plate; Patagonia; Plate motions; South America; Triple junction; Lithology; Tectonics; Andean orogeny; Cretaceous; deformation; hot spot; plate motion; subduction; trench; Chile; Pacific Ocean; Peru; Antarctic; Chile Trench; Pacific; The Antarctic; Antarc*
• Online Access: https://bibliotecadigital.exactas.uba.ar/collection/paper/document/paper_0012821X_v331-332_n_p152_Somoza; https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12110/paper_0012821X_v331-332_n_p152_Somoza

The Andean Cordillera has evolved since the Late Cretaceous in the context of subduction of oceanic lithosphere beneath continental lithosphere, making the kinematics between South America and its adjacent oceanic plates in the Pacific basin valuable to analyze the development of the Andean orogen....