Rapid surface uplift and crustal flow in the Central Andes (southern Peru) controlled by lithospheric drip dynamics

Oğuz H Göğüş1, Kurt Sundell2, Ebru Şengül Uluocak3

  • 1Eurasia Institute of Earth Sciences, Istanbul Technical University (ITU), İstanbul, Turkey. goguso@itu.edu.tr.

Scientific Reports
|April 2, 2022
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