Geodynamic Evolution of the Southernmost Andes Connections with the Scotia Arc

• Main Author: C. Ghiglione, Matías
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: English
• Published: Springer International Publishing 2016
• Subjects: Physical geography; Paleontology; Historical geology; Earth sciences; GB3; Austral; Drake Passage; Magallanes; Rocas; Scotia Sea; Antarc*; Antarctica
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/2078/ebook:84956; https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-39727-6

This book focuses on the strong relation between the tectonic evolution of the Southernmost Andes and their closest southern neighbors, the Scotia Sea and Antarctica. Some episodes are related to processes of global significance such as the opening of the Drake Passage, which is somehow linked to La...