...Figure 12 —Episodic movement of the Niquivil thrust plate in the last 5 m.y. Stage 1 shows a fault-propagation fold associated with the Agua Hedionda anticline. Stage 2 is a period of quiescence with the Mogna facies (circle) coming from the San Roque thrust plate onlapping on top of the Niquivil...

... of the Precordillera between the Río Jáchal and the Cienega de Gualilán are, from east to west (foreland to hinterland), Niquivil, San Roque, Blanquitos, Blanco, Caracol East, Caracol West, and Tranca ( Figs. 2 and 3 ). We first describe the surface geology and structures of these thrust plates, then address...

... belts, and intervening basins ( Ramos, 1988 ). Along the Jáchal River, the Precordillera is composed of six major thrust faults: From west to east, these are the Tranca, Caracol, Blanco, Blanquitos, San Roque, and Niquivil thrusts. These six faults place Paleozoic marine clastics and carbonates over...

..., and Fernando Rodríguez 22 April Late Cenozoic partitioning of oblique plate convergence in the Zagros fold-and-thrust belt (Iran)— Christine Authemayou, Dominique Chardon, Olivier Bellier, Zaman Malekzadeh, Esmaeil Shabanian, and Mohammad Reza Abbassi 02 May Young displacements on the Atacama Fault...