Contribution of the West Andean flank in Northern Chile to early stages of the Andean orogeny: insights from structural geology, thermochronology and analog modeling
Start: 01 October 2018
End: 14 February 2022
Supervisors :
Robin Lacassin, Martine Simoes
Related teams :
Tectonics and Mechanics of the Lithosphere
Status: Defended
Using a variety of approaches (structural geology, thermochronology, analog modeling), this PhD project aimed at providing answers to the following questions: what are the conditions that promoted Andean mountain-building? Where and when did mountain-building initiate in Northern Chili? How much deformation, in particular at the earliest stages of orogeny?
Publications:
- Habel T., Simoes M., Lacassin R., Carrizo D., Aguilar G., The western Andes at ~20–22° S: A contribution to the quantification of crustal shortening and kinematics of deformation.,submitted to Solid Earth (doi:10.5194/egusphere-2022-629).
