Integration of regional stratigraphic relationships with data on sediment accumulation,
provenance, paleodrainage, and deformation timing enables a reconstruction of Mesozoic …

We review geological evidence on the origin of the modern transcontinental Amazon River,
and the paleogeographic history of riverine connections among the principal sedimentary …

Construction of the Andes has been governed largely by fluctuating contractional, neutral,
and extensional tectonic regimes during differing degrees of mechanical coupling along the …

Current end-member models for the geodynamic evolution of orogenic plateaus predict (a)
slow and steady rise during crustal shortening and ablative subduction (ie, continuous …

The temporal transition from backarc extension to retroarc shortening is a fundamental
process in the evolution of many Andean-type convergent margins. This switch in tectonic …

Geochronologic, provenance, and sediment accumulation records from the long-lived (> 100
my) retroarc basin at the transition from the central to southern Andes provide improved …

Surface uplift of the Garzón Massif in the northern Andes formed a critical orographic barrier
(2500–3000 m elevation) that generated a deep rain shadow and strongly influenced the …

Detrital zircon U-Pb geochronology has been used extensively to develop provenance
histories for surface outcrops of key stratigraphic localities within sedimentary basins …

The Zagros fold-thrust belt in the Kurdistan region of Iraq encroached southward toward a
rapidly subsiding Neogene foreland basin and was later partitioned by out-of-sequence …

Unconformities in foreland basins may be generated by tectonic processes that operate in
the basin, the adjacent fold–thrust belt or the broader convergent margin. Foreland basin …