Water plays a critical role in erosion and sediment transport and this relationship is most
evident in the hyperarid Atacama Desert of Northern Chile, a region characterized by …

As the archetype of mountain building in subduction zones, the Central Andes has
constituted an excellent example for investigating mountain-building processes for decades …

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

The third edition of this widely acclaimed textbook provides a comprehensive introduction to
all aspects of global tectonics, and includes major revisions to reflect the most significant …

We present an upgraded version of a previously published 3-D density model of the Andean
subduction zone between 18° S and 45° S. This model consists of 3-D bodies of constant …

The analyses of the main parameters controlling the present Chile‐type and Marianas‐type
tectonic settings developed along the eastern Pacific region show four different tectonic …

We forward modeled the Bouguer anomaly in a region encompassing the Pacific Ocean
(85° W) and the Andean margin (60° W) between northern Peru (5° S) and Patagonia (45° …

We discuss the relationships between Andean shortening, plate velocities at the trench, and
slab geometry beneath South America. Although some correlation exists between the …

The Andean Cordillera has evolved since the Late Cretaceous in the context of subduction
of oceanic lithosphere beneath continental lithosphere, making the kinematics between …

We document a crustal‐scale structural model for the central Chile Andes based on
seismicity and surface geology, which consists in a major east verging ramp‐detachment …