[HTML][HTML] Andean mountain building since the Late Cretaceous: A paleoelevation reconstruction

LM Boschman - Earth-Science Reviews, 2021 - Elsevier
Mountain building in the Andes, the longest continental mountain range on Earth, started in
the Late Cretaceous but was highly diachronous. Reconstructing the timing of surface uplift …

The lissamphibian fossil record of South America

LA Barcelos, RO dos Santos - Palaeobiodiversity and …, 2023 - Springer
Anurans, along with urodeles and caecilians are the extant representatives of the clade
Lissamphibia. Nowadays, lissamphibians are widely distributed in all continents, except …

Tectonic geomorphology of the Qilian Shan in the northeastern Tibetan Plateau: Insights into the plateau formation processes

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 …

Andean shortening, inversion and exhumation associated with thin-and thick-skinned deformation in southern Peru

ND Perez, BK Horton, N McQuarrie, K Stuebner… - Geological …, 2016 - cambridge.org
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 …

Late Cenozoic topographic evolution of the Eastern Cordillera and Puna Plateau margin in the southern Central Andes (NW Argentina)

H Pingel, MR Strecker, A Mulch, RN Alonso… - Earth and Planetary …, 2020 - Elsevier
The Andes constitute an important orographic barrier in the southern hemisphere, impacting
atmospheric circulation, the amount and distribution of rainfall, and Earth-surface processes …

The Late Miocene mammals from the Humahuaca Basin (northwestern Argentina) provide new evidence on the initial stages of the Great American Biotic Interchange

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) …

Holocene internal shortening within the northwest Sub‐Himalaya: Out‐of‐sequence faulting of the Jwalamukhi Thrust, India

S Dey, RC Thiede, TF Schildgen, H Wittmann… - …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
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 …

Cenozoic exhumation and deformation of the intermontane Pastos Chicos Basin in the southern Central Andes: Implications for the tectonic evolution of the Andean …

H Pingel, A Deeken, I Coutand, RN Alonso, U Riller… - …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
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 …

Pliocene orographic barrier uplift in the southern Central Andes

H Pingel, RN Alonso, A Mulch, A Rohrmann… - …, 2014 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
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 …

Application of TOPSIS model in active tectonic prioritization: Madeira watershed, South America

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 …