International audienceShortening of the continental lithosphere is generally accommodated by the growth of crustal wedges building above megathrusts in the mantle lithosphere. We show that the locus of shortening in the western margin of South America has largely been controlled by the geometry of the slab. Numerical models confirm that horizontal subduction favors compression far from the trench, above the asthenospheric wedge and steeply dipping segment of the subducting slab. As a result, a second crustal wedge grows in the hinterland of the continent, and widens the Andes. In the Bolivian orocline, this wedge corresponds to the Eastern Cordillera, whose growth was triggered by a major episode of horizontal subduction. When the slab retu...
International audienceWe discuss the relationships between Andean shortening, plate velocities at th...
International audienceWe discuss the relationships between Andean shortening, plate velocities at th...
International audienceWe discuss the relationships between Andean shortening, plate velocities at th...
International audienceShortening of the continental lithosphere is generally accommodated by the gro...
International audienceShortening of the continental lithosphere is generally accommodated by the gro...
International audienceShortening of the continental lithosphere is generally accommodated by the gro...
International audienceShortening of the continental lithosphere is generally accommodated by the gro...
International audienceShortening of the continental lithosphere is generally accommodated by the gro...
International audienceShortening of the continental lithosphere is generally accommodated by the gro...
International audienceShortening of the continental lithosphere is generally accommodated by the gro...
International audienceShortening of the continental lithosphere is generally accommodated by the gro...
International audienceShortening of the continental lithosphere is generally accommodated by the gro...
International audienceWe discuss the relationships between Andean shortening, plate velocities at th...
The Cordillera of the Andes is a double-vergent orogenic belt built up by thickening of South Americ...
The Cordillera of the Andes is a double-vergent orogenic belt built up by thickening of South Americ...
International audienceWe discuss the relationships between Andean shortening, plate velocities at th...
International audienceWe discuss the relationships between Andean shortening, plate velocities at th...
International audienceWe discuss the relationships between Andean shortening, plate velocities at th...
International audienceShortening of the continental lithosphere is generally accommodated by the gro...
International audienceShortening of the continental lithosphere is generally accommodated by the gro...
International audienceShortening of the continental lithosphere is generally accommodated by the gro...
International audienceShortening of the continental lithosphere is generally accommodated by the gro...
International audienceShortening of the continental lithosphere is generally accommodated by the gro...
International audienceShortening of the continental lithosphere is generally accommodated by the gro...
International audienceShortening of the continental lithosphere is generally accommodated by the gro...
International audienceShortening of the continental lithosphere is generally accommodated by the gro...
International audienceShortening of the continental lithosphere is generally accommodated by the gro...
International audienceWe discuss the relationships between Andean shortening, plate velocities at th...
The Cordillera of the Andes is a double-vergent orogenic belt built up by thickening of South Americ...
The Cordillera of the Andes is a double-vergent orogenic belt built up by thickening of South Americ...
International audienceWe discuss the relationships between Andean shortening, plate velocities at th...
International audienceWe discuss the relationships between Andean shortening, plate velocities at th...
International audienceWe discuss the relationships between Andean shortening, plate velocities at th...