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The Transitional Zone Between the Southern Central and Northern Patagonian Andes (36–39°S)

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The transition zone from the Southern Central to the North Patagonian Andes is characterized by a low topography and low shortenings. During its evolution, an extensional event in late Oligocene times affected the western section of the Late Cretaceous to Eocene fold and thrust belt. Late early Miocene contraction then constructed most of the eastern Andean slope as in sequence structures stacked in the frontal sector of the fold and thrust belt. However, out of sequence structures derived mainly from the inversion of the late Oligocene extensional depocenters uplifted the axial Andean zone at these latitudes. Contractional and extensional stages coincide with periods in which the arc expanded and retracted, respectively. Shortening gradients from 30 km in the north to only 11 km in the south and development of synorogenic depocenters are linked to arc dynamics.

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  1. Departamento de Ciencias Geológicas, Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales, Instituto de Estudios Andinos “Don Pablo Groeber” UBA-CONICET, Buenos Aires, Argentina

    Emilio Agustín Rojas Vera, Andrés Folguera, Lucas Fennell & Víctor A. Ramos

  2. Instituto de Investigación en Paleobiología y Geología, Universidad Nacional de Río Negro—CONICET, General Roca (Río Negro), Argentina

    Darío L. Orts

  3. Complex Tectonics, Repsol S.A, Houston, TX, USA

    Gonzalo Zamora Valcarce

  4. Gerencia de desarrollo de no convencionales, YPF S.A, Capital Federal, Argentina

    Germán Bottesi

  5. Desarrollo, YPF S.A, Neuquén, Argentina

    Francisco Chiachiarelli

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    Andrés Folguera

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Rojas Vera, E.A. et al. (2016). The Transitional Zone Between the Southern Central and Northern Patagonian Andes (36–39°S). In: Folguera, A., Naipauer, M., Sagripanti, L., C. Ghiglione, M., Orts, D., Giambiagi, L. (eds) Growth of the Southern Andes. Springer Earth System Sciences. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-23060-3_5

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