Anurans, along with urodeles and caecilians are the extant representatives of the clade Lissamphibia. Nowadays, lissamphibians are widely distributed in all continents, except …
H Zhang, P Zhang, V Prush, D Zheng, W Zheng… - Tectonophysics, 2017 - Elsevier
We examined the regional scale topography of the Qilian Shan on the northeastern margin of the Tibetan plateau. Longitudinal profiles and geomorphometric indices, such as slope …
A balanced cross-section spanning the Eastern Cordillera and Subandean Zone of southern Peru (13–15° S) constrains~ 130 km (38%) of Cenozoic orogen-normal SW–NE Andean …
The Andes constitute an important orographic barrier in the southern hemisphere, impacting atmospheric circulation, the amount and distribution of rainfall, and Earth-surface processes …
AM Candela, MA Abello, MA Reguero… - Papers in …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract We describe new Late Miocene mammalian specimens from the Maimará Formation (Late Miocene to Early Pliocene) exposed at Humahuaca Basin (23°–24° S) …
The southernmost thrust of the Himalayan orogenic wedge that separates the foreland from the orogen, the Main Frontal Thrust, is thought to accommodate most of the ongoing crustal …
Abstract The Andean Plateau of north‐western Argentina (Puna) at a mean elevation of ca. 4.2 km constitutes the southern continuation of the Altiplano; it is a compressional basin‐and …
Sedimentary basin fills along the windward flanks of orogenic plateaus are valuable archives of paleoenvironmental change with the potential to resolve the history of surface …
A Raha, M Biswas, S Mukherjee - Journal of South American Earth …, 2023 - Elsevier
The Andes orogenic belt is one of the most tectonically active zones located between the convergent margins of the South American plate and the Pacific plate. From the dissected …