The Andes (Frontiers in Earth Sciences)
Contributors: Onno Oncken (Editor); Guillermo Chong (Editor); Gerhard Franz (Editor); Peter Giese (Editor); Hans-Jürgen Götze (Editor); Victor A. Ramos (Editor); M.R. Strecker (Editor); Peter Wigger (Editor)
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Springer
Published: November 14, 2006
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 592
ISBN-13: 9783540243298
Subjects: Geology & the lithosphere; Earth Sciences - Geology; Science; Science/Mathematics; Andes; Earth Sciences - Meteorology & Climatology; Geophysics; Interaction tectonics and climate; Plate boundary processes; Plateau formation; Science / Geology; Subduction orogeny; Orogeny; Subduction zones
First sentence: To this date, the question of why and how a plateau-type orogen formed with crustal thickening at the leading edge of western South America remains one of the hotly debated issues in geodynamics.