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

The practice of using the youngest detrital grains from a sedimentary deposit to constrain its
depositional age has grown rapidly over the past two decades. Researchers that use the …

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

Despite recent advances in quantitative methods of detrital provenance analysis, there is
currently no widely accepted method of unmixing detrital geochronology age distributions …

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 …

Broken foreland basins are caused by crustal-scale contractional basement structures that
compartmentalize (or break) a contiguous retroarc or collisional foreland basin into smaller …

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 …

Shortening of the continental lithosphere is generally accommodated by the growth of
crustal wedges building above megathrusts in the mantle lithosphere. We show that the …

Quantifying the impacts of past changes in tectonics or climate on mountain topography has
proven challenging. The incision of the eastern Central Andean Plateau has been …