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Somoza, R. and Zaffarana, C.B. (2008) Mid-Cretaceous Polar Standstill of South America, Motion of the Atlantic Hotspots and the Birth of the Andean Cordillera. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 271, 267-277.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.epsl.2008.04.004

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• TITLE: South American Breakup and Andean Torque Deformation

  AUTHORS: Adolfo Antonio Gutiérrez

  KEYWORDS: Tectonic, Torque Deformation, Continental Drift, Rift Valley, South America

  JOURNAL NAME: Open Journal of Geology, Vol.15 No.2, February 20, 2025

  ABSTRACT: Geological deformations are generally attributed to compressional, extensional and strike-slip processes. Since the breakup of Gondwana, torque deformation has been responsible for the current configuration of the western coasts of Africa and the eastern shore of South America and the morphotectonic geometry of the rift basins of South America, conditioning the morphostructure of the Andean chain and the current geoforms of the foreland.