Continental underthrusting and obduction during the Cretaceous closure of the Rocas Verdes rift basi...
Continental underthrusting and obduction during the Cretaceous closure of the Rocas Verdes rift basin, Cordillera Darwin, Patagonian Andes
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Washington: Blackwell Publishing Ltd
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English
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The Patagonian Andes record a period of Cretaceous‐Neogene orogenesis that began with the compressional inversion of a Late Jurassic rift called the Rocas Verdes basin. Detrital zircon ages from sediment that filled the southern part of the basin provide a maximum depositional age of ∼148 Ma, suggesting that the basin opened approximately simultane...
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Continental underthrusting and obduction during the Cretaceous closure of the Rocas Verdes rift basin, Cordillera Darwin, Patagonian Andes
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TN_cdi_proquest_journals_2494166061
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/TN_cdi_proquest_journals_2494166061
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0278-7407
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1944-9194
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10.1029/2009TC002610
