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.