The Andes are the world's most biodiverse mountain chain, encompassing a complex array
of ecosystems from tropical rainforests to alpine habitats. We provide a synthesis of Andean …

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 …

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

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

The Andean margin is the plate-tectonic paradigm for long-lived, continuous subduction, yet
its geology since the late Mesozoic era (the past 100 million years or so) has been far from …

The unparalleled biodiversity found in the American tropics (the Neotropics) has attracted
the attention of naturalists for centuries. Despite major advances in recent years in our …

Convergent plate boundaries show sharp variations in orogenic width and extent of
intraplate deformation. Analysis of late Cenozoic contractile deformation along the Andean …

El norte de los Andes está conformado por varias cadenas montañosas y extensos drenajes
que transportan sedimentos a los océanos circundantes. La configuración actual no …

Abstract The heterogeneous South American geology has coined a wide variety of
neotectonic settings where crustal seismogenic sources do occur. This fact has led to …

Integration of several geologic lines of evidence reveals the prevalence of a lowland trans-
Andean portal communicating western Amazonia and the westernmost Andes from at least …