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Contents: Central Andes Exploration Framework Atlas, 2nd Edition

Page(s) Topic
i Digital Topography, Acknowledgements, Copyright statement
ii Table of Contents

Part A Introductory Material
1 Geological outline. Physiography. Generalised geological map
2 Some outstanding geological problems. Plate tectonic context. Areas of steep and flat slab subduction. Cross-sections of subduction geometry
3 Latitudinal segmentation of the Andes. Subduction parameters and their influence on tectonics. Changes in azimuth and rate of plate motions since the Late Cretaceous
4 Relative motions of South American and Nazca Plates. Plate motions in the Atlantic Hotspot Reference Frame. Volcanism through time
5 Thermal effects of flat slab subduction. Cyclic orogenesis model in which rheology beneath arc controls regional structural style
6 Why else might flat slab subduction develop? Large scale controls on stratigraphy. Outline of a new model: Volcanogenetic Sequence Stratigraphy. A new paradigm to explain stratigraphic evolution of the Central Andean Foreland since ca. 55 Ma
7 Volcanism as a control on stratigraphy. Consequences for stratigraphic of changed tectonic regimes in the High Andes. Introduction to map of seismic and active volcanism
8 Seismicity, neotectonics, extent of basement-involved faulting
9 Use of digital topographic to constrain crustal shortening in our palinspastic grids. Palaeomagnetic rotations from Peru
10 Palinspastic maps for Aptian, Cenomanian, Middle Oligocene and Late Miocene times

Part B Paleogeographic Evolution
11 Lower Palaeozoic paleogeographic elements. Ordovician through Silurian evolution
12 Lower Palaeozoic paleogeographic maps: Late Ordovician, Middle Silurian and Middle Devonian
13 Devonian through Mississippian evolution. Eohercynian deformation
14 Middle Mississipian paleogeographic map
15 Pennsylvanian and Early to Middle Permian evolution
16 Pennsylvanian paleogeographic map
17 Tardihercynian deformation. Middle Permian to Early Triassic red bed sedimentation. Late Triassic to Early Jurassic evolution
18 Early and Middle Permian paleogeographic map
19 The problem of the Jurua Orogeny
20 Latest Permian to Early Jurassic paleogeographic map
21 Middle Jurassic and Cretaceous paleogeographic elements. Middle to Late Jurassic Evolution
22 Middle and Late Jurassic paleogeographic map
23 Early Cretaceous Fluvio-deltaic sedimentation. Aptian-Albian paleogeographic evolution
24 Valanginian-Barremian paleogeographic map
25 Relationship between Caribbean and South American Plates. Subduction polarity reversal. Cause of active tectonic foreland subsidence
26 Aptian-Albian paleogeographic map
27 Pacific origin for Pinon Terrane. Cenomanian-Santonian evolution
28 Cenomanian-Santonian paleogeographic map
29 Campanian Maastrichtian evolution. Active, driven foreland basin subsidence and end of Bolivia-Argentina rifting
30 Campanian Maastrichtian palaeogeographic map
31 Early and Middle Palaeocene evolution. Middle Palaeocene to Middle Eocene early Andean (Incaic) evolution
32 Middle Palaeocene to Middle Eocene (60-42 Ma) paleogeographic map. Onset of Eastern Cordillera Uplift, Zongo-San Gaban Zone. Early shortening in the Maranon fold-thrust belt
33 Dating the early rise of the Eastern Cordillera (Zongo-San Gaban Zone). Late Eocene evolution
34 Late Eocene (42-35 Ma) paleogeographic map. Volcanic flare-up in north-central Peru, burial of Incaic unconformity
35 End of pull-apart basin formation at the tail of the Northern Andes, Tracing the Huancabamba-Palestina Lineament. Latest Eocene to Middle Oligocene evolution
36 Latest Eocene and Early Oligocene (35-29 Ma) paleogeographic map. Volcanic hiatus. Age of Pozo formation. Basin development in south Peruvian Altiplano
37 Late Oligocene paleogeographic evolution
38 Late Oligocene (29-23 Ma) paleogeographic map. Volcanic flare-up in Peru and Ecuador. Renewed subsidence in foreland. New dates for Subandean sequences
39 Early Miocene to Middle Miocene paleogeographic evolution
40 Early Miocene (23-17 Ma) paleogeographic map. Andean deformation spreads to north and south. Uplift of Huaracayo anticline. Widespread ignimbritic volcanism
41 Middle Miocene paleogeographic evolution, continued
42 Middle Miocene paleogeographic map. Volcanism spreads throughout the central Andes. Onset of Puna uplift. Age of the Pebas formation
43 Late Miocene to Recent paleogeographic evolution. Age of the most recent flat slab event in Central Peru
44 Late Miocene to Recent paleogeographic map. Uplift of frontal anticlines. Onset of flat slab subduction and basement-involved faulting in central Peru. Deformation of Bolivian Altiplano
45 Late Miocene to Recent paleogeographic evolution, continued

Part C Analysis of semi-balanced cross-sections
46 Cross-sections of Santiago and Huallaga Basins. Depth to possible salt (low volume?) detachments. AFT age constraints
47 Cross-section of north Bolivian Subandes. Age constraints. Main Subandean Thrust and the space-filling problem
48 Cross-section of south Bolivian Subandes. Uplift of palaeoerosion surfaces in the Cordillera. K-Ar, indirect age constraints

Part C Conclusions for Hydrocarbon Systems & Basin Summary Charts
49 Some conclusions for hydrocarbon explorationists
50 Generalised North Peruvian fore-arc: Talara basin
51 Ecuadorian Oriente Basin
52 Santiago, Maranon Basins
53 Huallaga/northern Ucayali Basin
54 Southern Ucayali, Madre de Dios Basins
55 Northern Bolivian Subandes (Beni Basin)
56 Central Bolivian Subandes (Boomerang area)
57 Southern Bolivian Subandes (Chaco Basin)
58 Peruvian Altiplano, Cuzco Basin
59 Bolivian Altiplano; Corque, Poopo Basins

Part D Stratigraphic logs, thin-sections and age data
60 Vivian sandstone: field observations, litho- and chronostratigraphy
61 Thin sections, Oriente Formation, Pongo de Manseriche
62 Thin sections, Chonta Formation, Pongo de Manseriche
63 Thin sections, Vivian Formation, Pongos de Manseriche & Huaracayo
64 Stratigraphy, heavy minerals, age data from the Cenozoic sections at Pongo de Huaracayo and Pongo de Manseriche (Santiago Basin)

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