Motion of continental slivers and creeping subduction in the northern Andes

Jean-Mathieu Nocquet; J. C. Villegas-Lanza; Mohamed Chlieh; Patricia Mothes; Frédérique Rolandone; Paul Jarrin; D. Cisneros; Alexandra Alvarado; Laurence Audin; Francis Bondoux; Hernando Tavera; Hugo Yepes

doi:https://doi.org/10.1038/ngeo2099

doi.org/10.1038/ngeo2099

Motion of continental slivers and creeping subduction in the northern Andes

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Nature Geoscience18.30

Volume: 7, Issue: 4, Pages: 287 - 291

Published: Mar 2, 2014

Abstract

Regions of intense continental deformation, termed continental slivers, have been identified in Chile, Bolivia and Ecuador. Analyses of GPS data now identify another large sliver in Peru, the Inca Sliver, that is moving away from a neighbouring sliver in Ecuador—implying that moving continental slivers control the deformation of almost the entire Andean mountain...

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Title

Motion of continental slivers and creeping subduction in the northern Andes

DOI

doi.org/10.1038/ngeo2099

Published Date

Mar 2, 2014

Journal

Nature Geoscience

Volume

7

Issue

4

Pages

287 - 291

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