The Evolution of the Chilean-Argentinean Andes

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This book describes the Mesozoic to Cenozoic evolution of the Chilean and Argentinean Andes. The book is structured from a historical perspective concentrating on specific processes explained in each chapter. The chapters cover dynamic subsidence; neotectonics; magmatism; long and short term deformation; spatial development of ancient orogenic processes that control Andean reactivations; relation between ocean bathymetry and deformation. Sources of detritus through Andean construction are discussed by specialists from both sides of the Southern Andes. This book provides up-to-date reviews, maps, evolutionary schemes and extensive reference lists useful for geoscientists and students in Earth Science fields. Front Matter ....Pages i-xxv Front Matter ....Pages 1-1 Structure and Tectonics of the Chilean Convergent Margin from Wide-Angle Seismic Studies: A Review (Eduardo Contreras-Reyes)....Pages 3-29 The Geometry of the Continental Wedge and Its Relation to the Rheology and Seismicity of the Chilean Interplate Boundary (Andrei Maksymowicz, Andres Tassara)....Pages 31-58 The Peru-Chile Margin from Global Gravity Field Derivatives (Orlando Álvarez, Mario Giménez, Federico Lince Klinger, Andrés Folguera, Carla Braitenberg)....Pages 59-79 Front Matter ....Pages 81-81 Paleogeographic and Kinematic Constraints in the Tectonic Evolution of the Pre-Andean Basement Blocks (Augusto E. Rapalini, Silvana E. Geuna, Pablo R. Franceschinis, Cecilia M. Spagnuolo)....Pages 83-109 The Pre-Andean Phases of Construction of the Southern Andes Basement in Neoproterozoic–Paleozoic Times (Nemesio Heredia, Joaquín García-Sansegundo, Gloria Gallastegui, Pedro Farias, Raúl Giacosa, Fernando Hongn et al.)....Pages 111-131 The Famatinian Orogen Along the Protomargin of Western Gondwana: Evidence for a Nearly Continuous Ordovician Magmatic Arc Between Venezuela and Argentina (Victor A. Ramos)....Pages 133-161 Front Matter ....Pages 163-163 The Early Stages of the Magmatic Arc in the Southern Central Andes (Verónica Oliveros, Javiera González, Mauricio Espinoza Vargas, Paulina Vásquez, Pablo Rossel, Christian Creixell et al.)....Pages 165-190 A Provenance Analysis from the Lower Jurassic Units of the Neuquén Basin. Volcanic Arc or Intraplate Magmatic Input? (Maximiliano Naipauer, Ezequiel García Morabito, Marcelo Manassero, Victor V. Valencia, Victor A. Ramos)....Pages 191-222 Front Matter ....Pages 223-223 The Jurassic Paleogeography of South America from Paleomagnetic Data (María Paula Iglesia Llanos)....Pages 225-243 Lower Jurassic to Early Paleogene Intraplate Contraction in Central Patagonia (César R. Navarrete, Guido M. Gianni, Andrés Echaurren, Andrés Folguera)....Pages 245-271 Mechanisms and Episodes of Deformation Along the Chilean–Pampean Flat-Slab Subduction Segment of the Central Andes in Northern Chile (Fernando Martínez, César Arriagada, Sebastián Bascuñán)....Pages 273-290 Cretaceous Orogeny and Marine Transgression in the Southern Central and Northern Patagonian Andes: Aftermath of a Large-Scale Flat-Subduction Event? (Guido M. Gianni, Andrés Echaurren, Lucas Fennell, César R. Navarrete, Paulo Quezada, Jonathan Tobal et al.)....Pages 291-328 Tectonic Rotations Along the Western Central Andes (César Arriagada)....Pages 329-341 Paleogene Arc-Related Volcanism in the Southern Central Andes and North Patagonia (39°–41° S) (Sofía B. Iannelli, Lucía Fernández Paz, Vanesa D. Litvak, Rosemary E. Jones, Miguel E. Ramos, Andrés Folguera et al.)....Pages 343-359 Front Matter ....Pages 361-361 Mantle Influence on Andean and Pre-Andean Topography (Federico M. Dávila, Carolina Lithgow-Bertelloni, Federico Martina, Pilar Ávila, Julieta Nóbile, Gilda Collo et al.)....Pages 363-385 Cenozoic Uplift and Exhumation of the Frontal Cordillera Between 30° and 35° S and the Influence of the Subduction Dynamics in the Flat Slab Subduction Context, South Central Andes (Ana C. Lossada, Laura Giambiagi, Gregory Hoke, José Mescua, Julieta Suriano, Manuela Mazzitelli)....Pages 387-409 The Structure of the Southern Central Andes (Chos Malal Fold and Thrust Belt) (Martín Turienzo, Natalia Sánchez, Fernando Lebinson, Luis Dimieri)....Pages 411-441 The Late Oligocene–Early Miocene Marine Transgression of Patagonia (Alfonso Encinas, Andrés Folguera, Florencia Bechis, Kenneth L. Finger, Patricio Zambrano, Felipe Pérez et al.)....Pages 443-474 Neogene Growth of the Patagonian Andes (Andrés Folguera, Guido M. Gianni, Alfonso Encinas, Orlando Álvarez, Darío Orts, Andrés Echaurren et al.)....Pages 475-501 The Late Paleogene to Neogene Volcanic Arc in the Southern Central Andes (28°–37° S) (Vanesa D. Litvak, Stella Poma, Rosemary E. Jones, Lucía Fernández Paz, Sofía B. Iannelli, Mauro Spagnuolo et al.)....Pages 503-536 Basin Thermal Structure in the Chilean-Pampean Flat Subduction Zone (Gilda Collo, Miguel Ezpeleta, Federico M. Dávila, Mario Giménez, Santiago Soler, Federico Martina et al.)....Pages 537-564