"Paleomagnetic evidence of earliest Paleocene deformation in Calama (~22°S),northern Chile: Andean-type or ridge-collision tectonics?"

SOMOZA, RUBÉN; TOMLINSON, ANDREW J,; CAFFE, PABLO; VILAS, JUAN F.

JOURNAL OF SOUTH AMERICAN EARTH SCIENCES

PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD

Lugar: Amsterdam; Año: 2012 vol. 37 p. 208 - 213

0895-9811

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