The largest tectonic relief breaking the Earth's surface (13 km vertically) is at the subduction margin of the Andes, which generates routinely megathrust earthquakes (Mw > 8.5) and drives the paradigmatic Andean orogen. ...

The uplift of Central and Northern Andes occurred concomitantly with an important reorganization of the drainage pattern in Northern South America. During the Early Miocene, the fluvial systems that flowed from the ...

The aim of this research is to understand the tectonic setting of the Bauru Basin. This basin in central eastern South America has been classified as intracratonic, but the basin-fill geometry, the involved subsidence ...

The Upper Devonian-Upper Triassic low-grade metasedimentary rocks exposed along the South Patagonian Andes preserve the structural record of deformation associated with pre-Andean orogenic phases that predated the inception ...

The Andean belt is the only present-day active case example of a subduction-type orogeny. However, an existing controversy opposes classical views of Andean growth as an east verging retro wedge, against a recently proposed ...

West verging thrusts, synthetic with the Nazca-South America subduction interface, have beenrecently discovered at the western front of the Andes. At ~33°300S, the active San Ramón fault stands asthe most frontal of these ...

The Pre-Andean Paleozoic substrate from the Cordillera del Viento anticline is a polyorogenic basement composed of two groups of preorogenic rocks with different stratigraphy and deformation. The oldest set consists of ...