The thin-skin Sevier and thick-skin Laramide belts of the North American Cordillera provide
a long-term record of the interrelations between evolving styles of mountain building and …

The Mexican orogen is the expression in Mexico of the Cordilleran orogenic system. The
orogen extends the length of Mexico, a distance of 2000 km from the state of Sonora in the …

This text, written by a leading researcher in the field, describes the origin and formation of
lakes in order to give context to the question of how lacustrine deposits form. It explains the …

Geochronological, structural, and sedimentological data provide the basis for a regional
synthesis of the evolution of the Cordilleran retroarc thrust belt and foreland basin system in …

The topography of the central Andes can be considered the primary tectonic “signal” of late
Cenozoic mountain building in an arid region where the effects of uplift and magmatism are …

Arc volcanism across Iran is dominated by a Paleogene pulse, despite protracted and
presumably continuous subduction along the northern margin of the Neotethyan ocean for …

Late Cenozoic Andean deformation in the Pampean segment of Argentina and Chile (27°
00′–33° 30′ S) provides an exceptional opportunity to study the orogenic effects of flat …

The Andes make up the largest orogenic system developed by subduction of oceanic crust
along a continental margin. Subduction began soon after the breakup of Rodinia in Late …

It has been suggested that in a number of places such as Greece, Turkey, the Central
Pamirs, and Thailand Neo-Tethys may have opened as a back-arc basin above a Palaeo …

THE Tien Shan—a high, seismically active intracontinental mountain belt, 1,000–2,000 km
north of the Himalaya—has grown as a result of India's collision with Asia1. The crustal …