Backbone of the Americas. Shallow subduction, plateau uplift and ridge and terrane collision / Хребет Америки. Малоглубинная субдукция, поднятие плит, коллизия террейнов и хребтов

This volume has its genesis in the “Backbone of the Americas: Patagonia to Alaska” conference that took place in the city of Mendoza, Argentina, from 2 to 7 April 2006. The conference was convened by the Asociación Geológica Argentina and the Geological Society of America in collaboration with the Sociedad Geológica de Chile and was the fi rst meeting on this scale to be jointly convened by North and South American geologic societies. Some 400 participants from 20 countries along the western margins of the Americas and elsewhere participated. The purpose of the meeting was to explore common scientifi c themes affecting the evolution of the Cordilleras of the Americas from a multidisciplinary international perspective. Major themes included collision of active and aseismic oceanic ridges, shallowing and steepening subduction zones, plateau and orogenic uplift, and terrane collision. This volume presents a selection of papers by the invited plenary speakers and other represenative presentations of the symposium <...>