The Frontal Cordillera in northern Chile is located over the flat-slab subduction segment of the Central Andes. This tectonic province is characterized by a thick-skinned structural style showing evidence of tectonic ...

The structure of the Chilean Frontal Cordillera, located over the Central Andes flat-slab subduction segment (27 degrees-28.5 degrees S), is characterized by a thick-skinned deformation, affecting both the pre-rift basement ...

The Guarguaráz Complex, basement of the Cordillera Frontal, included in the proposed Chilenia Terrane, consists of metasedimentary rocks deposited in clastic and carbonatic platforms. Turbiditic sequences point out to slope ...

Crustal seismicity in northwestern Mendoza Province in Argentina, corresponding to the transition zone between the Chilean-Pampean flat subduction zone (26.5–33.5°S) and the Southern Central Andes normal subduction zone ...

The Chilean Frontal Cordillera, near 28 degrees 45S, provides a remarkable example to explore the evolution of the Central Andes; this area provides conspicuous pediment surfaces and continental deposits, which allowed us ...

The Chilean Frontal Cordillera, near 28°450 S, provides a remarkable example to explore the evolution of the Central Andes; this area provides conspicuous pediment surfaces and continental deposits, which allowed us to ...

One of the major geological units of the Main Andean Range (Frontal Cordillera) of north–central Chile is a group of composite and heterochronous late Paleozoic–early Mesozoic batholiths that extends for 500 km roughly ...

New thermochronometric data provide evidence for an along-strike diachronous building of the Andes in north-central Chile (28.5–32°S). Geochronological (U-Pb zircon) and thermochronological (apatite fission track and ...

Flat subduction segments are generally related to cold lithospheric zones, which suggest low Heat flow values and therefore a deeper Curie isotherm. In this study we perform a geophysical analysis by using high - resolution ...

We study the erosive convergentmargin of north-central Chile (at ~31°S) by using high-resolution bathymetric, wide-angle refraction, and multichannel seismic reflection data to derive a detailed tomographic 2-D velocity-depth ...